Use this listing to access information about each of the Nixon White House tape releases. Finding Aids may be available on the linked pages. The most recent tape releases are listed first.

Pending

Fifth Chronological Conversation Tape Release – approximately 877 hours recorded January 1973 - July 1973 are under review.

December 2008

• Fifth Chronological Conversation Tape Release, Part II – released 198 hours of conversations recorded November 1972 - December 1972.

July 2007

• Fifth Chronological Conversation Tape Release, Part I – released 11½ hours of conversations recorded November 1972.

December 2003

• Fourth Chronological Conversation Tape Release – released 240 hours of conversations recorded July 1972 - October 1972.

February 2002

• Third Chronological Conversation Tape Release – released 425 hours of conversations recorded January 1972 - June 1972.

October 2000

• Second Chronological Conversation Tape Release – released 420 hours of conversations recorded August 1971 - December 1971.

October 1999

• First Chronological Conversation Tape Release – released 443 hours of conversations recorded February 1971 - July 1971.

February 1999

• Third AOGP Tape Release – released 54 minutes of previously classified Abuse of Governmental Power (AOGP) segments.

October 1997

• First Cabinet Room Conversation Tape Release – released 154 hours of conversations recorded in the Cabinet Room February 1971 - July 1973.

September 1997

• POW/MIA-Related Conversations – released 41 minutes of three conversations relating to Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA).

November 1996

• Second AOGP Tape Release – released 205 hours of Abuse of Governmental Power (AOGP) tape segments.

May 1993

• First AOGP Tape Release – released 3 hours of Abuse of Governmental Power (AOGP) tape segments.

June 1991

• Watergate Special Prosecution Force Conversations – released 60 hours of Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) tapes, including 12 ½ hours of previously released Watergate Trial tapes.

May 28, 1980

• Watergate Trial Conversations – released 12 ½ hours of tapes used as evidence in the Watergate Trials.

1978-1979

• The National Archives undertakes steps to preserve, through duplication and rewinding, the approximately 4,000 hours of White House tapes.

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