nixontapes.org - Nixon Tapes and Transcripts

All Past Updates:

June 28, 2010: “[W]e’re going to give Allende the hook”; The Nixon Administration’s Response to Salvador Allende and Chilean Expropriation
April 16, 2010: President Nixon Sought Independent View of Alexander Haig; Haig was Key Advisor of Nixon, in Particular when Henry Kissinger was Absent; Collection of Nixon-Haig Telephone Calls Assembled for the First Time
April 9, 2010: Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to Six American Presidents, Dead at 90; Nixon Tapes Reveal Dobrynin Was A Key Collaborator of Nixon's, Kissinger's
March 6, 2010: President Nixon and Donald Rumsfeld; Nixon Considered the Youngest Member of his Cabinet a Rising Star
February 22, 2010: Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and the Nixon Tapes; Former Secretary of State Urged Study of Nixon White House Recordings
February 21, 2010: Additional Executive Office Building Conversations from 1972 Released in New Collection; Topics Discussed Include Vietnam, Watergate, and the 1972 Election
February 11, 2010: "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" Nominated for Oscar; nixontapes.org was Consultant for Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
January 21, 2010: Additional Camp David Conversations from 1972 Released in New Collection; Topics Discussed Range from Watergate to the 1972 Election
December 28, 2009: New Evidence Confirms Pentagon Stole and Leaked Top Secret Documents from Nixon White House; Consequence of Pentagon's Isolation from Decision-Making in Vietnam, China, Detente
December 8, 2009: The Forty Years War Probes Obscure Pentagon Official; Ideology of Fritz Kraemer at the Heart of Wartime Policy from Vietnam to the Present
November 29, 2009: Nixon's Phone Conversations with Lead Speechwriter Ray Price Assembled in Single Collection for First Time; Price was among most tenured of Nixon's aides
November 18, 2009: New Theories Related to Watergate Continue to Capture Public Imagination; Latest National Archives Work Focuses on Elusive 18 ½ Minute Gap
September 23, 2009: In New Finding, John Dean Argues that the Origin of Watergate was "a Tip" Received by President Nixon; However, Dean withheld that he appears to have been the one who received the "tip" first
September 20, 2009: Nixon and Hoover: Partners in Power; Nixon Tapes Demonstrate Similar Thinking on Issues of the Day
September 7, 2009: Nixon Had His Eye on Leon Panetta; Young Republican HEW Aide Critical of Nixon's Civil Rights Program
August 26, 2009: nixontapes.org contributes to "Teddy: In His Own Words", a new HBO film that honors the life of former Sen. Ted Kennedy
July 26, 2009: Flawed FRUS? Pitfalls with the Nixon Tapes and How to Avoid Them
July 22, 2009: John Dean's Simon and Schuster editor calls Dean's claim that his editors inserted false information in Blind Ambition a "lie"; never before heard recording available here
July 20, 2009: Nixon Recognized Importance of Space Program; Space Policy had Broader Role in Nixon's Foreign Policy; Nixon Tapes Capture Apollo XV, XVI, and XVII Crews
July 17, 2009: Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara captured on tape in 1971-1972 meetings with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger
July 10, 2009: FOXNews.com lead article points readers to nixontapes.org page on Dean-Nichter dispute over tapes
June 23, 2009: National Archives releases 154 additional hours of Nixon tapes ("Chron 5.3") recorded during January and February 1973
June 20, 2009: John Dean Slams "Revisionists" and Nixon Foundation in Talk at Library: However, 1989 Interview Tape Provides New Details
June 14, 2009: President Nixon and George Shultz's Telephone Conversations Assembled in Single Collection for First Time
June 12, 2009: Chronological Release 4: 240 hours of tapes originally released by the National Archives in 2003; recordings were made between July 1972 and November 1972
June 10, 2009: "John W. Dean III and the Watergate Cover-up, Revisited"
May 2, 2009: Thomas A. Schwartz's SHAFR Presidential Address: “‘Winning an election is terribly important, Henry’: Thinking about Domestic Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations”
March 22, 2009: President Nixon and the Future Presidents: House Minority Leader Ford, Governor Reagan, and Ambassador Bush
March 8, 2009: DCI Richard M. Helms and President Nixon
February 22, 2009: New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt joins debate over Nixon tapes, Stanley Kutler, and John Dean's role in Watergate
February 15, 2009: Chronological Release 3: 425 hours of tapes originally released by the National Archives in 2002; recordings were made between January 1972 and June 1972
February 1, 2009: New York Times Probes New Interpretation of John Dean's Role in Watergate Cover-up
January 8, 2009: Chronological Release 2: 420 hours of tapes originally released by the National Archives in 2000; recordings were made between August 1971 and December 1971
December 24, 2008: Chronological Release 1: first time complete set of 445 hours of tapes originally released by the National Archives in 1999 made available; recordings were made between February 1971 and July 1971
December 18, 2008: Complete audio file collection of Henry Kissinger's phone conversations assembled for the first time
December 2, 2008: Nixon Presidential Library releases additional 198 hours of Nixon tapes
November 26, 2008: Chuck Colson and the 1972 Presidential election
August 11, 2008: Audio files from White House reaction to shooting of George Wallace released
August 5, 2008: Complete Cabinet Room tapes released online for the first time
July 5, 2008: nixontapes.org's Richard Moss featured in May 2008 edition of State Magazine
December 3, 2007: History News Network posts column, "Caught on Tape: The White House Reaction to the Shooting of Alabama Governor and Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace"
October 23, 2007: Taped conversations on the origin of the Nixon White House taping system featured on nixontapes.org
August 30, 2007: Additional Fifth Chronological Release tapes uploaded
August 20, 2007: New York Times features commentary by nixontapes.org's Richard Moss on latest tape release
July 31, 2007: nixontapes.org adds transcripts and multiple audio formats of the first recorded Nixon tapes
July 28, 2007: nixontapes.org adds High Quality Audio (.flac) download option on transcripts page
July 23, 2007: nixontapes.org adds links to audio files and makes other improvements to transcripts page
July 16, 2007: History News Network posts column, "Do the New Nixon Tapes Tell Us Anything New?", by Richard Moss and Luke Nichter
July 13, 2007: nixontapes.org begins posting transcripts from July 11 tape release
July 12, 2007: Boston Globe cites work by nixontapes.org's Richard Moss and Luke Nichter
July 12, 2007: nixontapes.org contributes to Calvin Woodward's Associated Press columns on new tape release
July 11, 2007: Associated Press Television hosts nixontapes.org's Richard Moss to discuss new tape release
July 11, 2007: Nixon Presidential Library releases first portion of Nixon tapes chronological release 5