These are frequently requested videos and motion film clips of landmark events in the life and public career of President Nixon.

• The events are listed chronologically.
  
  
• The Finding Aids links provide specific details about each event.
  
  
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• Description:
  Congressman Nixon views Alger Hiss'es "Pumpkin Papers" microfilm  [See Also:  Main Motion Film File Finding Aid]
  File Number: MFF# 601
  
  
• Description:
  "The Checkers Speech"  [See Also:  Main Video File Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: MVF# 177
  
  
• Description:
  "Kitchen Debate" (VP Nixon debating merits of Capitalism w/ Nikita Krushchev)  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA VTR# 5842
  
  
• Description:
  Second Nixon-Kennedy Debate  [See Also:  Main Motion Film File Finding Aid]
  File Number: MFF# 425
  
  
• Description:
  1968 Nixon Campaign Spots  [See Also:  Main Motion Film File Finding Aid]
  File Number: MFF# 615
  
  
• Description:
  "Nixon: A Self Portrait" - Nixon 1968 biographical campaign film  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA VTR# 5380
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon 1968 GOP Convention Acceptance Speech  [See Also:  Main Motion Film File Finding Aid]
  File Number: MFF# 612
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon 1969 Inauguration  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA VTR# 3150
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon announces invasion of Cambodia  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA VTR# 3693
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon signs SALT treaty with Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev (no sound)  [See Also:  Naval Photographic Center White House Motion Film Unit Collection]
  File Number: NPC 1211-232-72R, 8/46
  
  
• Description:
  Evening network news spots on Watergate break-in  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 5496
  
  
• Description:
  1972 GOP Convention Acceptance Speech  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 5761
  
  
• Description:
  "Portrait of a President", 1972 Nixon campaign film  [See Also:  Main Motion Film File Finding Aid]
  File Number: MFF# 0063
  
  
• Description:
  1973 Inauguration  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 6010
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon announces Vietnam Peace Accord  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection
  Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 6027
  
  
• Description:
  POW Night at the White House  [See Also:  Naval Photographic Center White House Motion Film Unit Collection]
  File Number: NPC 1211-231-73
  
  
• Description:
  Question and Answer session with the Associated Press Managing Editor's: "I'm not a crook..."  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 6663
  
  
• Description:
  John Dean's Testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee: tells of conversation where he tells Nixon the coverup is "a cancer on the Presidency.."  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# W-101
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon responds to subpoena of WH tapes with edited transcripts  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: WHCA# 6910
  
  
• Description:
  President Nixon's Address to the Nation resigning the Office of the Presidency  [See Also:  Main Video File Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: MVF# 182
  
  
• Description:
  Nixon's Farewell to White House Staff
  File Number: WHCA# 7136  [See Also:  WHCA Videotape Collection Finding Aid]
  File Number: NPC 1211-106-75 (shot by Navy film crew)  [See Also:  Naval Photographic Center White House Motion Film Unit Collection]
  
  

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