Use the listing below to access information about each of the Nixon Presidential Materials releases.

Materials Released to the Public

Finding Aids may be available on the linked pages. The most recent releases are listed first.

July 11, 2007

• White House Telephone tape 33
• White House Old Executive Office Building tape 388
• White House Oval Office tape 813
  
• approximatley 78,000 pages of formerly closed documents about President Nixon's life and political activities

November 16, 2005

• Central Files: Alphabetical Name Files
• Central Files: Oversized Attachments
• Central Files: Staff Member & Office Files
• Central Files: Subject Files Finding Aid
• National Security Council Files Collection

May 26, 2004

• Henry A. Kissinger Transcript Release – over 20,000 pages of telephone conversation transcripts.
  
  
• White House Central Files Releases:
  
  
  • Subject Files – 7,000 pages of materials, including Pardon Files from 1973.
    
    
  • Name Files – 1,600 pages, including a small amount of material relating to John Kerry and Roger Ailes.

December 10, 2003

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

May 2002

• National Security Council (NSC) Files

February 28, 2002

• Third Chronological Conversation Tape Release – 425 hours of conversations recorded January 1972 - June 1972.
  
  
• Second Cabinet Room Conversation Tape Release – 70 hours of previously classified segments.

April 2001

• National Security Council (NSC) Files
  
  
• White House Central Files

October 26, 2000

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

April 2000

• National Security Council (NSC) Files
  
  
• White House Central Files

October 5, 1999

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

February 1999

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

February 1999

• National Security Council (NSC) Files

March 1998

• National Security Council (NSC) Files
  
  
• White House Central Files
  
  
• Special Files

October 16, 1997

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

September 29, 1997

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

March 1997

• White House Central Files

November 18, 1996

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

November 1993

• National Security Council (NSC) Files – files relating to POW/MIA issues.

May 17, 1993

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

July 1992

• White House Central Files

February 1992

• White House Central Files

June 4, 1991

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

August 1991

• White House Central Files
  
  
• Audiovisual Materials Release

July & December 1989

• White House Central Files

March & December 1988

• White House Central Files
  
  
• Audiovisual Materials Release

July 1986

• White House Communications Agency Collections Release – audio recorded between 1969 and 1974 and videotapes produced between 1968 and 1974.
  
  
• White House Central Files

May 28, 1980

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

October 1979

• White House Photo Collection

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