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 · 22,599 with audio · 19,733 AI transcripts · 2,583 conversations cut into their own clips

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Start with the famous conversations

The “smoking gun” conversation June 23, 1972
“A cancer on the presidency” March 21, 1973
The 18½-minute gap June 20, 1972
“Stonewall it” March 22, 1973
“Blow the safe”: Brookings and the Huston plan June 17, 1971
“Drop the goddamn thing”: the ITT call April 19, 1971
First word of the Pentagon Papers June 13, 1971
Home from China February 28, 1972
The Christmas bombing December 18, 1972
The death of J. Edgar Hoover May 2, 1972

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People on the tapes

Bob Haldeman 2,425 Henry A. Kissinger 1,538 John D. Ehrlichman 837 Charles W. Colson 891 John W. Dean 70 John N. Mitchell 211 Ronald L. Ziegler 1,236 Alexander M. Haig Jr. 712 John B. Connally 352 Rose Mary Woods 763 Alexander P. Butterfield 1,052 Pat Nixon 354 George P. Shultz 422 William P. Rogers 273 Gerald R. Ford 112 Spiro T. Agnew 105 J. Edgar Hoover 15 Billy Graham 28

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Major subjects

Watergate 1,087 Vietnam War 1,764 People's Republic of China 323 Soviet Union 172 Pentagon Papers 132 1972 election 885 George McGovern 238 Economic policy 853 Wage and price controls 136 Busing 189 Daniel Ellsberg 63 SALT 122 Paris Peace Accords 72 India-Pakistan War 52 Supreme Court 86 FBI 126 Press relations 637 Welfare Reform 130

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On this day — October 28

October 28, 1971Nixon, Connally & Kissinger · 2 hr 51 min

President Nixon met with his economic advisors (the "Quadriad") and Henry Kissinger to discuss international monetary policy, trade negotiations, and the upcoming Asian trip for John B. Connally. The group addressed the urgency of trade concessions, the com…

October 28, 1971Nixon, Tito & Tambaca · 1 hr 22 min

President Nixon met with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito to discuss international crises, specifically the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The leaders examined the roles of the Soviet Union and …

October 28, 1972Nixon, Haldeman & Kissinger · 1 hr 6 min

President Nixon met with key advisors, including H.R. Haldeman, Henry Kissinger, and Charles Colson, to coordinate political messaging and media strategy in the final stretch of the 1972 presidential campaign. The discussion centered on countering recent CB…

October 28, 1971Nixon & Haldeman · 43 min

President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman review administrative and scheduling matters, including the search for a new Secretary of Agriculture and the management of upcoming political travel. The discussion shifts to foreign policy, where they assess the strategic…

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. How the taping system worked · About the project and the data