Nixon White House Tapes
Listen to and search all 22,725 conversations from the 949 Nixon White House recordings, 1971–1973 — with AI transcripts, summaries and the Nixon Library finding aids.
22,725 conversations · 22,588 with audio · 19,553 AI transcripts · 850 conversations cut into their own clips
On this day — October 11
President Nixon met with George P. Shultz and Donald H. Rumsfeld to discuss economic strategy and the administration's ongoing efforts to manage wage and price controls. The participants focused on navigating labor relations, specifically managing expectati…
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger met to finalize the logistics and strategy for the upcoming presidential trip to the People's Republic of China, with a primary focus on maintaining extreme operational security and minimizing the size of the accompanying…
President Nixon and Charles W. Colson discussed political strategy for the 1972 election, focusing heavily on countering George McGovern's recent foreign policy speech regarding the Vietnam War. Nixon instructed Colson to mobilize labor leaders and other al…
President Nixon and Charles Colson discuss legislative strategy regarding tax and spending bills, focusing on framing the issue as a fight against high taxes to secure necessary votes. The conversation shifts significantly to a political attack on Sargent S…
What is in the archive?
Between February 1971 and July 1973 a voice-activated system secretly recorded President Richard Nixon's meetings and telephone calls in the Oval Office, the Old Executive Office Building, the Cabinet Room and Camp David. The National Archives has catalogued 22,725 conversations across 949 tapes. Easy Nixon brings together the released audio, the Nixon Library finding aids, AI-generated transcripts for more than 19,000 conversations, and short AI summaries — all free, with permanent links you can cite. Read more about the project and the data.