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The Move!

Information about Moving the Presidential Records to California and Reference Closures at College Park

In 2010 the Nixon Library will move presidential documents and audio-visual materials from its stack areas in the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland to the Library campus in Yorba Linda, California.

On-site reference services on the Nixon Presidential textual collection in College Park, Maryland, will be suspended on February 19, 2010 to prepare the boxes for delivery to California. Email, telephone and mail assistance for researchers interested in these records will continue on a limited basis during the transition of the materials.

On-site reference on Nixon presidential documents will begin in Yorba Linda, California, in late May or early June 2010. The precise date of opening, which will depend on the arrival dates of the textual shipments, will be publicized as soon as possible in early 2010.

On-site reference services on the Nixon presidential audio-visual collection in College Park will be suspended in August 2010 to prepare the materials for shipment later in the year. The precise date of reopening in Yorba Linda will be publicized as soon as possible in 2010.

All reference services on the textual and audio-visual collections currently in Yorba Linda will be unaffected by the move and will continue throughout this period.

Until the completion of the tape review program, which encompasses review of the tapes from January-July 1973 and additional releases from the first four chronological segments, primary reference service on the White House tapes will remain with the Nixon Library unit in College Park. As of May 2010, the Library campus in Yorba Linda will have copies of all publicly-released tapes. Eventually all opened tapes will be available online at www.nixonlibrary.gov. Digital copies will always be available for research in College Park.

This timetable assumes completion of the archival addition on the Library's campus in Yorba Linda in late 2009. Construction and move timetable updates will be available at www.nixonlibrary.gov. Please send any questions about the move or reference closures to nixon@nara.gov.

Beginning in February 1971, President Nixon began secretly taping conversations and telephone calls in several locations.
• Listen to the Tapes

Expansion of the Nixon Library: Building the California home for the Presidential Records

The Archival addition is on schedule to be completed in November 2009. The Presidential material will be moved from College Park, Maryland to the site in 2010.

198 hours of Nixon White House tape recordings and approximately 90,000 pages of textual materials from the Nixon Presidency. Opening December 2, 2008
Daily Diary
The Nixon Presidential Library announces the release of tape recordings and textual material.

Tapes
Approximately 198 hours of tape recordings from the Nixon White House recorded between November and December 1972 and consisting of approximately 1,398 conversations. The conversations cover topics such as the 1972 Presidential and Congressional elections, reorganization of the executive branch, creation of a “New Majority” for a reinvigorated Republican Party or new conservative third party, the late stages of the peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War, and the decision to bomb the Hanoi and Haiphong areas in North Vietnam. All 198 hours of tape recordings will be made available on the web at www.nixonlibrary.gov. They will also be available at both the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA and at the National Archives College Park, MD facility.

Textual
30 cubic feet of textual materials from the White House Central Files - Staff Member and Office Files of J. Fred Buzhardt, President Nixon’s attorney during the Watergate scandal, and Bryce Harlow, senior adviser and counselor to President Nixon. The opening will also include approximately 10 cubic feet of textual materials from the Jeb Stuart Magruder papers relating to his service on the Committee to Re-elect the President.
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