Title/Event: NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: David Frost Interviews
Henry Kissinger
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 001 VCR
Names/Participants: Henry Kissinger and David Frost
Date: Oct. 11, 1979
Topic/Subject: "Henry Kissinger talks about war and peace and
about his decisions at the height of his powers"
during four years in the White House.
Location:
Producer: NBC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff/NationalArchives
Time: 9 mins. 10 secs.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "CNN TAKE TWO: Interview with John Ehrlichman"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 002 VCR
Names/Participants: Chris Curle, Don Farmer, John Ehrlichman
Date: 1982
Topic/Subject: In discussing his book Witness to Power: The
Nixon Years, Ehrlichman comments on the following
topics: efforts by the President's staff to
manipulate news, stopping information leaks,
interaction between the President and his staff,
FBI surveillance, and payments to Watergate
burglars.
Location: Chicago and Atlanta
Producer: CNN
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff/National
Archives
Time: 10 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "OUR WORLD: 'Secrets and Surprises: The Fall of
[19]48'"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 003 VCR
Names/Participants: Hosts Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf, Stuart
Symington, Clark Clifford, Burns Roper
Date: Jan. 1, 1987
Topic/Subject: Ellerbee and Gandolf narrate an historical
overview of United States society and popular
culture in 1948. Topics include movies, new
cars, retail sales, clothes, sexual mores, the
advent of television, the 33 rpm Long Playing
phonograph record, radio shows, the Berlin
Airlift, and the Truman-Dewey presidential
election.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Man in the Arena: Michigan" [1968 Campaign]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF# 004 VCR
Names/Participants: Richard Nixon
Date: October 9, 1968
Topic/Subject: Paid political program. One of a series of
spontaneous question and answer programs in which
panel members pose questions on various issues
for Presidential candidate Richard Nixon
Location: Michigan
Producer: Nixon-Agnew Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: donated materials of Gordan Vander Till
Time: 60 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: McGovern Political [1972] Campaign Spot:
"Supermarket"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 005 VCR
Names/Participants: Sen. George McGovern
Date: Oct. 22, 1972
Topic/Subject: The commercial focuses on food price increases,
cost of living increases, and the wage freeze
during President Nixon's first term.
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Staff Member and Office Files: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 50 secs.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "45/85"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 006 VCR
Names/Participants: Newsmen Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel, Cyrus
Vance (Pres. Carter's Secretary of State),
Andrew Young (Pres. Carter's Ambassador to
the U.N.), Moorehead Kennedy (Iranian Embassy
hostage), Col. Charles Beckwith (Commdr. of
the Iranian rescue mission), Zbigniew
Brzezinski (Pres. Carter's national security
advisor), Dale Dye (marine officer), Jeane
Kirkpatrick (former U.N. ambassador and
university professor), former presidents
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter,
President Ronald Reagan, et al.
Date: Sept. 18, 1985
Topic/Subject: Peter Jennings and Ted Kopppel review the 1976-85
decade with emphasis on foreign policy of the
Carter and Reagan administrations. Included is
an interview of President Reagan on U.S.-Soviet
relations.
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, National
Archives
Time: 45 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Washington Merry-Go-Round: Two Nixon Stories"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 007 VCR
Names/Participants: Drew Pearson
Date: ca. 1950s
Topic/Subject: In both segments Drew Pearson reports the
opposition among Republican leaders, including
Tom Dewey, Senator William Knowland, and Governor
Knight of California, to the re-nomination of
Vice President Nixon to the 1956 GOP ticket.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Office of Presidential Libraries, National Archives
Time: 20 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Nixon-Khrushchev Moscow Debate At The Ampex Exhibit"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 008 VCR

Names/Participants: Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Fred Kozlov
Date: Summer 1959
Topic/Subject: spontaneous debate involving Vice President Nixon
and Chairman Khrushchev about the cold war
competition between the United States and Russia.
These remarks are often confused with the Kitchen
Debate.
Location: Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Producer: Ampex Magnetic Products
Restriction(s): Public Domain
Provenance: Office of Presidential Papers and Archives, NARS
Time: 15 mins.
Remarks: Khrushchev's remarks are not translated for television
viewers. Poor video quality.
T
itle/Event: "Testimonial dinner in honor of retiring Admiral
Hyman Rickover"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 009 VCR
Names/Participants: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Hyman Rickover,
Jimmy Carter, Senator Henry Jackson et al.
Date: Feb. 28, 1983
Topic/Subject: see title
Location: Washington Sheraton Hotel, Wash., D.C.
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s):
Provenance: External Affairs, National Archives
Time: 60 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "David Frost Interviews Henry A. Kissinger"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 10 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Henry A. Kissinger
Date: Oct. 11, 1979
Topic/Subject: Interview spans the years 1969-73, the period
covered in Kissinger's memoirs. Subjects
discussed include Cambodia, Vietnam, Watergate,
and U.S. intervention in Chile.
Location:
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 53 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Compilation of All Network News Spots on the
Watergate [audio] Tapes"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 011 VCR
Names/Participants: Harry Reasoner, Tim O'Brien, Dick Jacobs,
John Chancellor, Charles Stern, Roger Mudd,
and Fred Graham
Date: April 18, 1978
Topic/Subject: Three network news spots concerning the Supreme
Court decision to deny to the public access to
the Watergate Tapes
Location: Wash., D.C.
Producer: ABC, NBC, CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: National Archives
Time: 10 mins.
Remarks: Dick Jacobs, with the Nixon Presidential Materials
Staff, comments on the future of the Watergate Tapes

Title/Event: "FACE THE NATION: 1972 Democratic Primary"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 012 VCR
Names/Participants: Senators George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey,
David Schoumacher (CBS News), George Herman
(CBS News), and David S. Broder (Washington
Post)
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Vietnam, defense spending, welfare, George
Wallace's candidacy, and bussing to achieve
school integration
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "President Nixon's [1972 Campaign] Song"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 013 VCR
Names/Participants: Richard Nixon
Date: Sept. 1972
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 2 mins. 15 secs.
Remarks: Poor visual quality

Title/Event: "Gerald Ford's America," Part 4
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 014 VCR
Names/Participants: John Ehrlichman, Pres. Nixon, Maureen Dean
Date: 1975
Topic/Subject: 0'-30'--Nixon departure on helicopter, 8/9/74
30'-92'--Interview of John Ehrlichman 93'-125'--
Iranian Embassy party, interview of Maureen Dean
Location:
Producer: WNET-TV
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 1 min. 25 secs.
Remarks: Parts I-III not in the collection

Title/Event: "Democratic Primary Campaign Spots/Television
Interview with George McGovern"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 015 VCR
Names/Participants: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey. Harry
Reasoner
Date: Oct. 23, 1972
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee; California Working
Families For Humphrey; ABC-TV
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time:
Remarks: Second McGovern commercial, Humphrey commercials, and
inaudible McGovern interview

Title/Event: "Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings", Part
1: "The House Judiciary Committee Hearings on
Impeachment"
File Designator/ ID no./Format: MVF # 016 VCR
Names/Participants: Charles McDowell, John Dean, Alexander
Butterfield, Elliot Richardson, John Doar,
Garner Cline, and members of the House
Judiciary Committee
Date: 1984
Topic/Contents: Charles McDowell narrates a retrospective summary
of the activities of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee on Impeachment hearings. Includes post
Watergate era interviews
Location:
Producer: WETA-TV, Wash., D.C.
Restriction(s): copyright
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 57 m 28 sec
Remarks:

Title/Event: "TODAY SHOW: SECRET AGENDA, the Story of the
Watergate Break-in"
File Designator/ID no./Format: MVF # 017 VCR
Names/Participants: Jim Hougan, Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumble & Carl
Stern
Date: November 12, 1984
Topic/Subject: Hougan's book on the Watergate break-in is
reviewed by Carl Stern and discussed by its
author in an interview with Bryant Gumble
Location:
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, National
Archives
Time: 10 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "TODAY SHOW: Author Teddy White Interviews Richard
Nixon" [compilation of 4 interviews]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 018 VCR
Names/Participants: Theodore White & Richard Nixon
Date: September 8-12, 1980
Topic/Subject: an assembly tape of four seperate televised
interviews with Nixon on the 1980 political
campaign
Location: Richard Nixon's home, New York City, NY
Producer: NBC
Time: 35 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: THE TODAY SHOW: Interview with former President
Richard Nixon, Part I
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 019 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 8, 1980
Topic/Subject: Former President Nixon's observations on the
impact of television on politics, his assessment
of the 1980 Presidential candidates Ronald Reagan
and Jimmy Carter, and his prediction of the
election outcome
Location: Nixon's New York City home
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, National
Archives
Time: 8 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: THE TODAY SHOW: Author Theodore White's Interview
with former President Richard Nixon, Part II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 020 VCR
Names/Participants: Theodore White and Richard Nixon
Date: Sept. 9, 1980
Topic/Subject: Topics discussed include voter apathy, primary
elections, party conventions, and candidate
debates
Location: Nixon's New York City home
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 7 mins.
Remarks: segment begins at meter reading 754

Title/Event: "GOOD MORNING AMERICA: Opening of the Watergate
Tapes at the National Archives"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 021
VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: May 28, 1980
Topic/Subject: Release of the Watergate trial tapes to the
public by the National Archives
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 2 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC's 20/20 NEWS MAGAZINE: Interview of Richard
Nixon by Barbara Walters
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 022 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: May 8, 1980
Topic/Subject: Topics discussed include invasion of Afghanistan
by the Soviets, the fall of the Shah of Iran,
relations with Saudi Arabia, the Republican Party
after Watergate, and the 1980 presidential
candidates.
Location:
Producer: ABC-TV
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, National
Archives
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:
Title/Event: 20/20: Barbara Walters interviews Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 023 VCR
Names/Participants: Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
Date: Nov. 6, 1986
Topic/Subject: In Part I, "Pat Nixon--The Untold Story," Ms.
Walters narrates highlights of Richard Nixon's
political career through his defeat in the 1962
California gubernatorial election and discusses
with Ms. Eisenhower Pat Nixon's reaction to and
influence on them and Nixon's courtship of Pat
Ryan. Part II, "Pat Nixon: Watergate And After,"
covers the post-1962 years in Richard Nixon's
career, including family life, Mrs. Nixon's role
in the 1972 election, her reaction to the
Watergate scandal, her husband's resignation, and
their post-resignation family life.
Location: Suburban Philadelphia
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 32 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: OUR WORLD: "Breaking Barriers--1954"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 023 VHS
Names/Participants: Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf
Date: Nov. 6, 1986
Topic/Subject: The major topics highlighted in Ellerbee's and
Gandolf's narrative are the campaign against
polio, popular music, hydrogen bomb tests,
sports, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and the
school desegregation case (Brown v. Board of
Education).
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance :Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: SIXTY MINUTES: An Interview with Ollie Atkins
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 024 VCR
Names/Participants: Dan Rather and Ollie Atkins
Date: May 16, 1976
Topic/Subject: President Nixon's official photographer, Ollie
Atkins, discusses the last days of Nixon's term.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 20 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: OUR WORLD: "Pursuit of Power"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 025 VCR
Names/Participants: Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf
Date: Fall 1973
Topic/Subject: Ellerbee and Gandolf review the 1973 Arab-
Israeli War (Yom Kippur War), subsequent OPEC oil
embargo, the King-Riggs tennis match, the women's
rights movement, the Watergate scandal, and other
events of 1973.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: OUR WORLD: "Summer of '69"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 026 VCR
Names/Participants: Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf, Arlo Guthrie
Date: Sept. 25, 1986
Topic/Subject: The most extensively covered topics in this
narrative of current events are the Apollo 11
moon landing, the war in Vietnam, television
shows, the Manson murders, and the Woodstock rock
concert.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:
Title/Event: OUR WORLD: "40 Days in Spring--1970"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 027 VCR
Names/Participants: Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf, and John D.
Ehrlichman
Date: Oct. 23, 1986
Topic/Subject: The topics covered most extensively in this
survey of current events are domestic protest
activity, the Apollo 13 lunar mission, and "Earth
Day".
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: PANORAMA: An appearance by General Services
Administrator Jay Solomon
Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 028 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Aug. 26, 1977
Topic/Subject: The discussion concerns gifts to presidents and
their families, and hostess Pat Mitchell displays
jewelry given the Nixons from heads of state.
Location: Wash., D.C.
Producer: WTTG-TV
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 16 mins.
Remarks: Black and white

Title/Event: "[John B.] Connally Political Speech & Press
Conference"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 0029 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 14, 1972
Topic/Subject: John B. Connally urges Democrats to vote for
Pres. Nixon; in the ensuing press conference
Connally announces the formation of Democrats for
Nixon
Location:
Producer: Democrats For Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: Office of Presidential Papers and Archives
Time: 4 mins. 20 secs. for each segment
Remarks:

Title/Event: MEET THE PRESS: Joint Appearance by Senators Hubert
Humphrey and George McGovern
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 030 VCR
Names/Participants: Lawrence Spivak, Tom Pettit (NBC News),
Robert Novak (Chicago Sun Times), Richard
Bergholz (Los Angeles Times), Haynes Johnson
(Washington Post), George McGovern, Hubert
Humphrey
Date: May 30, 1972
Topic/Subject: The candidates discuss with the questioners, a
week prior to the California primary, the
acceptability of George Wallace as a running
mate; tax, welfare, and defense policies; the war
in Vietnam; government loans to Lockheed aircraft
and American Motors; and bussing to achieve
school desegregation.
Location: Los Angeles
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: Black and white

Title/Event: 1972 Endorsement of Nixon for President by Mamie
Eisenhower
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 031 VCR
Names/Participants: Mamie Eisenhower
Date: Sept. 29, 1972
Topic/Subject: political endorsement of Nixon by Mrs.
Eisenhower
Location: The Eisenhower Gettysburg home, Pennsylvania
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance:White House SMOF: H.R.Haldeman
Time: 60 secs. and 3 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: GOOD MORNING AMERICA: "25th Anniversary of the
Kennedy-Nixon Debates"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 032 VCR
Names/Participants: Host David Hartman and guests Sander Vanocur
(a debate questioner), Dave Powers (former
Kennedy aide), Leonard Reinisch (Kennedy's TV
director), Don Hewitt (Director of the
Presidential Debate), Sig Mickelson
(President of CBS Television), Oliver Treyz
(President of ABC), Herb Klein (Nixon's 1960
press secretary), Ted Rogers (Nixon's 1960 TV
advisor). and Mike Feldman (Kennedy advisor).
Date: Sept. 23, 1985
Topic/Subject: The participants reminisce about the 1960
Kennedy-Nixon debates.
Location: Boston
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 20 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Twenty-five Years of the Presidency," [Staff
Secretary's perspective] PART 1
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 033 VCR
Names/Participants: Moderator John Chancellor and former
Presidential assistants Andrew Goodpaster
(Eisenhower Administration), Theodore
Sorenson (Kennedy Administration), Harry
McPherson (Johnson Administration), Richard
Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (Ford
Administration), Jack Watson, Jr. (Carter
Administration). Al Haig and H.R. Haldeman
(Nixon Administration).
Date: June 3, 1986
Topic/Subject: The discussion emphasizes how the assistants
dealt with what they perceived as foolish ideas
suggested by presidents and with crisis
management.
Location: University of California at San Diego
Producer: KPBS (San Diego) and the Board of Regents of the
University of California
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Twenty-five Years of the Presidency," [Staff
Secretary's perspective] PART 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 034 VCR
Names/Participants: Moderator John Chancellor and former
Presidential assistants Andrew Goodpaster
(Eisenhower Administration), Theodore
Sorenson (Kennedy Administration), Harry
McPherson (Johnson Administration), Richard
Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (Ford
Administration), Jack Watson, Jr. (Carter
Administration), Al Haig and H.R. Haldeman
(Nixon Administration), Harry McPherson
(Johnson Administration), Richard Cheney and
Donald Rumsfeld (Ford Administration), Jack
Watson, Jr.(Carter Administration), Al Haig
and H.R. Haldeman (Nixon Administration).
Date: June 3, 1986
Topic/Subject: The discussion is largely concerned with how
different presidents' staffs have functioned, the
impact of journalistic media on the presidency,
and policy agendas.
Location: University of California at San Diego
Producer: KPBS (San Diego) and the Board of Regents of the
University of California
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, National
Archives
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "1969 Inauguration"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 035 VCR
Names/Participants: Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (Chairman of
the Joint Inaugural Committee of the U.S.
Congress), members of the committee, Vice
President-elect Spiro T. Agnew, President-
elect Nixon, Rev. Billy Graham, Chief Justice
Earl Warren, President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Mamie
Eisenhower; Misses Nixon, Agnew, Johnson,
Humphrey, and Dirksen; Archbishop Terrence
Cooke of New York.
Date: Jan. 20, 1969
Topic/Subject: Pre-inaugural activity and Inauguration Day
ceremonies.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: U.S. Senate Recording Studio for the Joint Inaugural
Committee
Restriction(s): PUBLIC DOMAIN
Provenance: Office of Presidential Libraries, National Archive
Time: 44 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "1973 Inauguration"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 036 VCR
Names/Participants: Rev. E.V. Hill, members of the Nixon and
Agnew families, Rabbi Seymour Siegel, Chief
Justice Warren E. Burger, Cardinal Terrence
J. Cooke, singer Ethel Innis
Date: Jan. 20, 1973
Topic/Subject: Inauguration Day ceremonies
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: U.S. Senate Recording Studio for the Joint Inaugural
Committee
Restriction(s): PUBLIC DOMAIN
Provenance: Office of Presidential Libraries, National Archive
Time: 50 mins.
Remarks: Unnarrated film of the 1973 inaugural ceremonies

Title/Event: 1972 Nixon Campaign Trip to Texas
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 037 VCR
Names/Participants: President Nixon and students
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Visit to a predominantly Mexican-American high
school
Location: Texas
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R.Haldeman
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon [1972] Campaign spots
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 038 VCR
Names/Participants: John Connally, Chairman of Democrats for
Nixon
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: "Six Presidents," "Vietnam," "Defense Cuts"
Location:
Producer: Democrats For Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R.Haldeman
Time: 15 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spot
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 039 VCR
Names/Participants: John Connally, Chairman of Democrats For
Nixon
Date: Oct. 27, 1972
Topic/Subject: Connally comments on foreign policy accomp-
lishments beginning with Pres. Truman and argues
that McGovern's views depart from the bipartisan
policy of the previous twenty five years
Location:
Producer: Democrats For Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R> Haldeman
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spots
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 040 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Oct. 27, 1972
Topic/Subject: Two 60 second spots depicting McGovern's views on
U.S. involvement in Vietnam are presented on a
split screen
Location:
Producer: Democrats for Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 2 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spot
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 041 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Oct. 23, 1972
Topic/Subject: 1972 arms control agreement with the U.S.S.R.
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 4 mins. 20 secs.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spots
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 042 VCR
Names/Participants: John Connally
Date: Oct. 12, 1972
Topic/Subject: Foreign and defense policy
Location:
Producer: Democrats For Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 5 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spots
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 043 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 15, 1972
Topic/Subject: political spots relating to Vietnam, military
draft, extension of voting rights to 18-year-
olds, the environment, and drug abuse.
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 4 mins. 20 secs.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spots [compilation tape of
fourteen spots]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 044 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 15, 1972
Topic/Subject: "Russia," "The Record," "Property Taxes,"
"China," "Passport," "McGovern Turnaround,"
"McGovern Welfare," "The Record," "Bussing,"
"China," "Air Transport," "Older America,"
"McGovern Defense," "Youth (Work Pix)"
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 27 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign Spots [compilation tape of
twenty-five spots]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 045 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Oct. 5, 1972
Topic/Subject: "Youth," "The Record," "Property Taxes," "China,"
"Passport," "McGovern Turnaround," "McGovern
Welfare," "The Record," "Bussing," "China,"
"Environment," Air Transport," "Older Americans,"
"McGovern Defense," "The Record (South)," The
Record (West)," "Russia (Old Version)," "Youth--
San Clemente," "Mamie," "Tax Reform (Work Pix),"
"Economy (Work Pix)," "Nixon The Man (Work Pix),"
"Youth Testimonial," "Youth Rally," "Nixon Song
(Work Pix)."
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 50 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon 1972 Campaign [John B.] Connally Work Tape
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 046 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject: Footage of China trip, Russia trip, Nixon in
South Vietnam, anti-war protesters, Hubert
Humphrey, and POWs in North Vietnam.
Location: PRC, USSR & DRV
Producer: Democrats for Nixon Campaign Committee
Restriction(s): none
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 15 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Richard Nixon: Portrait of a President", [1972
Campaign Film]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 047 VCR
Names/Participants: President Nixon, Administration officials and
members of the White House Staff
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Campaign film, first shown at the 1972 Republican
Convention, depicting the highlights of the first
Nixon Administration
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. HALDEMAN
Time: 30 mins
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos" [assembly
tape of all versions of a 1972 Nixon campaign film]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 048 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Four versions of the 1972 Nixon campaign film
with running times of 30 mins., 15 mins. 14 mins.
& 10 secs
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R.Haldeman
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Pat: A Tribute to the First Lady" [1972 campaign
film]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 049 VCR
Names/Participants: Mrs. Richard Nixon
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: a campaign film showing Mrs. Nixon's efforts on
behalf of Richard Nixon during his political
career culminating in her activities as the First
Lady
Location:
Producer: Committee to Re-elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 10 mins.
Remarks: short version

Title/Event: McGovern 1972 Campaign Spot
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 050 VCR
Names/Participants: Senator George McGovern
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: McGovern discusses defense, anti-trust, and tax
policies as campaign issues
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R.Haldeman
Time: 5 mins.
Remarks: Off-air recording; poor recording: tracking & skew
problems

Title/Event: McGovern 1972 Campaign Spot
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 051 VCR
Names/Participants: Alfred C. Baldwin, James McCord, Lawrence
O'Brien, William E. Timmons
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 60 secs.
Remarks: Off-air recording; poor video quality

Title/Event: McGovern 1972 Campaign Spots [seven spot assembly
tape]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 052 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject: "Old People" (:30), "Blue Collar" (:60),
"Unemployment (5:00), "Veterans Hospital" (5:00),
"Job Safety" (5:00), "Old People" (:60),
"Convention" (5:00).
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 23 mins
Remarks: Off-air recording

Title/Event: McGovern 1972 Campaign Spots [seven spot assembly
tape]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 053 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Democratic campaign spots: "Wages & Prices",
"Obligations to Aged", "Old Age Taxes", "Tax
Shelter", "Vietnam", "McGovern's Attack",
"Working People"
Location:
Producer: McGovern for President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 10 mins. 30 secs
Remarks: poor video quality
T
itle/Event: Mc Govern 1972 Campaign Spots [ten spot tape]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 054 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: Democratic television spots: "Older American, It
Breaks My Heat"; Vietnam, Eight Years Ago",
"Veterans", "Pakistan: People haver the right to
Know"; "Lack of Communication at the White
House"; "Campaign Contributions"; "Talking to
Workers About Voting their Conscience"; "Older
Americans: More Care Should be Given";extract
from "51st State"; Spanish excerpt from McGovern
documentary"
Location:
Producer: McGovern for President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 20 mins.
Remarks: poor quality off-air recording

Title/Event: Assembly tape of selected 1972 McGovern campaign
Spots
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 055 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: "Defense" (:30); "Credibility: This is!" (:60);
"Voices of America" (:60); "Mrs. [Eleanor]
McGovern" (5:00); "Sen. Humphrey Endorsement"
(5:00)
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 11 mins. 50 secs.
Remarks: poor video quality

Title/Event: 1972 McGovern Campaign Spots [nine spot assembly
tape]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 056 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1972
Topic/Subject: "Working people"(:60); "Watergate"(:60);"Taxes-
overtime"(:60);"War Economy"(:30); "Tanya
Attack"(:60); "Supermarkets"(:60); "Crime" (:60);
"Unemployment"(:60); "Contributions" (:60)
Location:
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 10 mins.
Remarks: off-air recording

Title/Event: "[George] McGovern Biography" [1972 campaign film]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 057 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: June 4, 1972
Topic/Subject: Biography of George McGovern followed by a
request for campaign contributions from Paul
Newman.
Location:
Producer: McGovern for President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks: Off-air recording, B & W

Title/Event: "[George] McGovern Telethon" [1972 Campaign]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 058 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Oct. 23, 1972
Topic/Subject: George McGovern participates in a live question-
and-answer session by telephone for viewers in
New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Location: New York City, N.Y.
Producer: McGovern For President Committee
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The 51st State Special" A McGovern Question &
Answer Session
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 059 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: June 15, 1972
Topic/Subject: This is a WNET (Newark) public affairs program,
"The 51st State Special," in which McGovern
responds to questions from citizens who oppose
his policies.
Location: New York City, N.Y.
Producer: WNET-TV
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: White House SMOF: H.R. Haldeman
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: Off-air recording

Title/Event: "Peace In Our Time" (Spring is Special): A Pearl
Bailey Segment of The Oral Roberts Hour
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 060 VCR
Names/Participants: Pearl Bailey and Oral Roberts
Date: Mar. 15, 1973
Topic/Subject: Ms. Bailey sings "Let There Be Peace On Earth"
and "In the Garden" on the Oral Roberts Special.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "THE JULIE ANDREWS HOUR"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 061 VCR
Names/Participants: Julie Andrews, Sammy Davis, Jr.; Rich Little.
Date: Feb. 28, 1973
Topic/Subject: musical entertainment television broadcast
Location:
Producer: Jewel Production for ITC (Independent Television
Corporation)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "All the President's Men," Part I
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 062 VCR
Names/Participants: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Hoffman, Robert
Redford, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jason
Robards, Martin Balsam.
Date: 1976
Topic/Subject: Motion film based on the book by Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: Warner Brothers
Restriction(s):
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "All the President's Men," Part II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 063 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1976
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "All the President's Men," Part III
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 064 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1976
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: NBC White Paper: "The American Presidency," Part I
of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 065 VCR
Names/Participants: Reported by David Brinkley with comments from
Hugh Sidey (Time magazine), professors George
Reedy and Thomas Cronin, first ladies Lady
Bird Johnson and Betty Ford, former
presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter,
Presidential advisers John D. Ehrlichman,
Clark Clifford, Henry A. Kissinger, and
Zbigniew Brezinski, senators and congressmen.
Date: Dec. 26, 1979
Topic/Subject: Brinkley and participants convey the opinions of
presidents about the job--their likes and
dislikes, their problems and pleasures--and
discuss the ceremonial aspect of the presidency,
the development of Presidential power in domestic
and foreign affairs beginning with FDR,
presidents' relationship with their staffs and
cabinet, dealing with Congress, and the impact of
Watergate and the War in Vietnam on presidential
power.
Location:
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: NBC White Paper: "The American Presidency," Part II
of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 066 VCR
Names/Participants: Narrated by David Brinkley with participants
Judy Woodruff (NBC News), Helen Thomas (UPI),
James Wieghart (The New York Daily News), Ben
Bradlee (Washington Post), Jody Powell
(Carter Press Secretary), Sam Donaldson (ABC
News), professors George Reedy and Thomas
Cronin, John Ehrlichman (advisor to Pres.
Nixon), Hugh Sidey (Time magazine), Clark
Clifford (former Presidential advisor),
Barbara Jordan (former congresswoman), and
former president Gerald R. Ford.
Date: Dec. 26, 1979
Topic/Subject: Presidents' relationship with journalists, use of
television, qualities and conditions influencing
the success of presidents.
Location:
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance:
Time: 20 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "784 Days That Changed America, Watergate," Part I
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 067 VCR
Names/Participants: Nancy Dickerson (narrator), John Dean, John
D. Ehrlichman, Gerald Ford, Judge John
Sirica, Elliot Richardson, Spiro T. Agnew,
H.R. Haldeman, Senator Sam Ervin, et al.
Date: June 1982
Topic/Subject: Watergate scandal.
Location:
Producer: Television Corporation of America
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "784 Days That Changed America," Part II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 068 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part I.
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: See entry for Part I.
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time:
Remarks:
Title/Event: "Will: G. Gordon Liddy," Part I
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 069 VCR
Names/Participants: Robert Conrad, Katherine Cannon, Gary Boyer,
Red West, Maurice Woods, Danny Lloyd, Peter
Ratray, James Ebhorn.
Date: Jan. 10, 1982
Topic/Subject: Movie portrayal of the life of G. Gordon Liddy, a
Watergate conspirator.
Location:
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Will: G. Gordon Liddy," Part II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF #70 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part I.
Date: Jan. 10, 1982
Topic/Subject: Movie portrayal of the life of G. Gordon Liddy, a
Watergate conspirator.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Nixon with Oxford [Union] Students"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 071 BETACAM
Names/Participants:
Date: Nov. 1978
Topic/Subject: Nixon speaks for 25 mins. on foreign affairs and
problems of the West. He then takes questions
from members of the Oxford Debating Union on
Vietnam, Cambodia, communism, and Watergate.
Location:
Producer: WETA-TV (Washington, D.C.) from WGBH (Boston)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Transfer from WETA-TV quad videotape
Time: 90 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS News SPECIAL REPORT: "President Nixon Assigns
Ford As Vice President" (2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 072 VCR
Names/Participants: President Nixon, Vice President-designate
Gerald R. Ford, correspondents Barry Serafin,
Dan Rather, Roger Mudd, John Hart, and Nelson
Benton, senators Robert Dole, Henry
Jackson, and Hugh Scott, congresswoman
Margaret Heckler, congressmen John Anderson
and Wayne Hays.
Date: Oct. 12, 1973
Topic/Subject: President Nixon's announcement, congressman
Ford's acceptance speech, and newsmen's
commentary.
Location: White House East Room, Senate Caucus Room, White House
Front Lawn
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS News SPECIAL REPORT: The Presidential Pardon (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 073 VCR
Names/Participants: President Gerald R. Ford, correspondents Dan
Rather, Richard Wagner, Bob Schieffer, Fred
Graham, Phil Jones, Eric Sevareid, and U.S.
senators.
Date: Sept. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Richard M.
Nixon
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: CBS News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Presidential Pardon"(2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 074 VCR
Names/Participants: News correspondents Steve Bell, Bob Clark,
Sam Donaldson, Dick Schoumaker, and Herbert
Kaplow, senators Robert Byrd, Philip Hart,
Howard Cannon, Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie,
Daniel Inouye, congressmen John Rhodes, and
Tom Railsback, Robert Finch (former HEW
secretary), and professors Raoul Burger,
Archibald Cox, and John Murphy.
Date: Sept. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: Washington, D.C
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks: Leader in one cassette detached.
Title/Event: NBC News SPECIAL REPORT: President Gerald R. Ford's
testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal
Justice of the House Judiciary Committee concerning
his pardon of former President Richard Nixon (Part I
of III).
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 075 VCR
Names/Participants: John Chancellor
Date: Oct. 17, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: NBC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: NBC News SPECIAL REPORT: Ford Testimony-- House--
Nixon Pardon (Part II of III)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 076 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part I
Date: Oct. 17, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:

Title/Event: NBC News SPECIAL REPORT: Ford Testimony-- House--
Nixon Pardon (Part 3 of 3), 2 copies
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 077 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part I.
Date: Oct. 17, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part I of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 078 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Howard K.
Smith, Tom Jarrell, Ted Koppel, Bill
Zimmerman, Bob Clark, Frank Reynolds, George
Watson, Lem Tucker, Nixon Press Secretary Ron
Ziegler, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
senators Edward Brooke and Mike Mansfield,
congressman Carl Albert
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: Nixon resignation
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part II of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 079 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Howard K.
Smith, Frank Reynolds, Christine Lund, Steve
Bell, Herbert G. Klein (former White House
Communications Director), and Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown (former Governor of California)
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: Nixon Resignation
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part III of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 080 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Howard K.
Smith and others, Clayton Kirkpatrick
(editor, Chicago Tribune), Studs Terkel
(author), Fahley Lynn, former Senator Charles
Goodell, congressman John Brademas.
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: President Nixon's resignation announcement
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part IV of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 081 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner and their colleagues, George Wallace
(Governor of Alabama), Sargent Shriver, Vice
President Gerald R. Ford, James R. Hoffa
(former Teamster's Union President), Ronald
Reagan (Governor of California), congressmen
Charles Sandman and John Conyers.
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks: Smith, Reasoner, their colleagues, and others comment
following Nixon's resignation announcement.

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part V of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 082 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Howard
K.Smith, Gregory Jackson, and George Watson;
George Ball (Undersecretary of State in the
Johnson Administration, John Palmer (business
editor), Robert Hargreaves (journalist),
Pierre Rinfret (economist), James Needham
(President of the New York Stock Exchange);
senators John Tower, Hubert Humphrey, George
McGovern, Robert Dole, Walter Mondale, Moon
Landrieu (Mayor of New Orleans) James
Buckley, Henry Jackson, and Vice President
Gerald R. Ford.
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: Reactions to President Nixon's resignation
speech.
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part VI of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 083 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner, Tom Jarrell, Herb Kaplow, Vice
President Gerald R. Ford, Ford's three
brothers.
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part VII of VIII (2
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 084 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner, and Virginia Sherwood, Julie and
Tricia Nixon, Ronald Ziegler (Nixon's Press
Secretary), Carl Albert (Speaker of the
House), Clint Harris (Nixon friend), Wallace
Newman (Nixon football coach), Robert Finch
(Nixon White House aide).
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: President Nixon's resignation, including
videotape of his resignation speech, and first
part of a Nixon biography.
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 mins.

Title/Event: ABC News: Nixon Resignation, Part VIII of VIII
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 085 VCR
Names/Participants: Correspondents Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner.
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: Included is a continuation of the Nixon biography
begun in Part VII.
Location:
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 50 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC News SPECIAL REPORT: Nixon Resignation Speech
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 086 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Aug. 8, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA

Time: 16 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon TV Interview From Antenne 2 (French
Television) On "Dossiers De L' Ecran. "Dub From ABC
News, Paris (Part 1 of 3, 2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 087 VCR
Names/Participants: Armand Jammot (interviewer) and Richard Nixon
Date: Nov. 28, 1978
Topic/Subject: Nixon responds to questions about the possibility
of returning to political life, his decision to
interview on French television, the Concorde
airplane, the war in Vietnam, and the presidency.
The interview is interrupted by a forty-minute
film on Nixon's political career, narrated in
French, and comments from viewers.
Location: Paris
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: This interview is conducted in French translated into
English.

Title/Event: Nixon TV Interview From Antenne 2 (French
Television) on "Dossiers De L' Ecran."
Dub From ABC News Paris (Part 2 of 3, 2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 088 VCR
Names/Participants: Armand Jammot (interviewer) and Richard
Nixon.
Date: Nov. 28, 1978
Topic/Subject: The presidency, war in Vietnam, China, the CIA's
role in Chile, assassination of President
Kennedy, Watergate, the Oval Office recording
system. the 1973 Arab oil embargo, relationship
with journalists, Mrs. Nixon, public opinion of
Nixon in France compared to public opinion of him
in the United States, U.S.-Soviet relations, U.S.-
European relations.
Location: Paris
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Nixon TV Interview From Antennae 2 (French
Television) On "Dossiers De L' Ecran." Dub From ABC
News, Paris (Part 3 of 3, 2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 089 VCR
Names/Participants: Armand Jammot (interviewer) and Richard Nixon
Date: Nov. 28, 1978
Topic/Subject: U.S.-European relations, the Middle East,
Romania, China.
Location: Paris
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: MCNEIL-LEHRER REPORT:
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.'s announcement of his candidacy for
president and a biographical sketch of him.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 090 VCR
Names/Participants: Jim Lehrer, Robin McNeil
Date:
Topic/Subject: In a one-minute story, Jim Lehrer reports Haig's
announcement for the presidency, and the general
comments on arms sales by the Reagan
administration to Iran. .Haig's role in the Nixon
presidency is included in a biographical sketch
preceding an interview with Robin McNeil
concerned mostly with his candidacy for the
presidency and briefly with his actions in
response to the assassination attempt on
President Reagan and with the impact of the Iran-
contra affair on U.S. foreign policy.
Location:
Producer: WHMM, Channel 32
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 16 mins.
Remarks: The news spot begins at 90 on the meter. The interview
begins at 215.

Title/Event: MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT: Nomination of Judge Robert
Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 091 VCR
Names/Participants: Journalists Robin McNeil, Charlene Hunter
Gault, and Judy Woodruff, Professor Dick
Howard, Richard Viguerie (direct mail fund
raiser), Arthur Kropp (People For The
American Way), Dan Casey (American
Conservative Union), Allan Morrison (public
citizen), Kate Michelman (Nat'l Abortion
Rights League), Rebecca Hagelin (Concerned
Women For America), Benjamin Hooks (executive
director of the NAACP), Patrick McGuigan
(Free Congress Foundation), senators Orrin
Hatch and Patrick Leahy, Ann Lewis
(Democratic Political Consultant), Patrick
Buchanan (former White House Communications
Director).
Date:
Topic/Subject: Charlene Hunter Gault reports on Bork's judicial
record and his nomination to the Supreme Court.
She notes Bork's firing of Special Prosecutor
Archibald Cox as Solicitor

General in the Nixon administration.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: WHMM, Channel 32

Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 40 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: G. Gordon Liddy on THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW (joined in
progress)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 092 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject: As a member of a panel of talk show hosts, Liddy
fields questions on his decision to become a talk
show host, welfare subsidies, vulgar language on
television and radio, Jimmy Swaggart and other
television evangelists, and crime and punishment.
Location:
Producer: WLS-TV, Chicago
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 40 mins.
Remarks: begins at 180 on the meter

Title/Event: First Nixon-Frost Interview, Part I of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 093 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: May 4, 1977
Topic/Subject: the Watergate affair
Location:
Producer: David Paradine Productions
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: No sound during first few minutes

Title/Event: First Nixon-Frost Interview, Part II of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 094 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: May 4, 1977
Topic/Subject: the Watergate affair
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Second Nixon-Frost Interview, Part I
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 095 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: May 12, 1977
Topic/Subject: Foreign policy.
Location:
Producer: David Paradine Productions
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 mins.

Title/Event: Second Nixon-Frost Interview, Part II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 096 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: May 12, 1977
Topic/Subject: Foreign policy, Henry Kissinger.
Location:
Producer: David Paradine Productions
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Third Nixon-Frost Interview, Part I of II (3 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 097 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon.
Date: May 19, 1977
Topic/Subject: Discussion centers on Vietnam: Nixon's attempts
to end the war, operations in Cambodia, and the
domestic situation during the war (including the
Ellsberg case, the "Plumbers," and alleged abuse
of Presidential power).
Location:
Producer: David Paradine
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 35 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Third Nixon-Frost Interview," Part II of II (3
copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 098 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: May 19, 1977
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Fourth Nixon-Frost Interview, Part I of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 099 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: May 25, 1977
Topic/Subject: Resignation of Vice President Agnew, CIA
intervention in Chile, the final days in, the
White House including the prayer meeting with
Henry Kissinger, Nixon's personal financial
affairs, and his pardon by President Ford.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance:
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Fourth Nixon-Frost Interview, Part II of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 0100 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: May 25, 1977
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part I.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Fifth Nixon-Frost Interview, Part I of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 0101 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost and Richard Nixon
Date: Sept. 8, 1977
Topic/Subject: Watergate tapes, nomination of G. Harold Carswell
to the U.S. Supreme Court, China, Nixon-Kissinger
relationship, John and Martha Mitchell.
Location:
Producer: David Paradine Productions, Inc.
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Fifth Nixon-Frost Interview, Part II of II
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 102 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 8, 1977
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part I.
Location:
Producer: David Paradine Productions, Inc.
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Every Four Years" with Howard K. Smith Part I of
III
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 103 VCR
Names/Participants: Gerald R. Ford, Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy
Carter, Clark Clifford, Bryce Harlow, and
professors Steven Wayne, Thomas Cronin, Fred
I. Greenstein, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Date: 1980
Topic/Subject: Citizens and former presidents Ford, Nixon, and
Carter respond to an opinion survey concerning
the presidency followed by a discussion on the
survey's results by professors Steven Wayne,
Thomas Cronin, Fred I. Greenstein, and
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Location:
Producer: WHYY (Philadelphia)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 55 mins.

Title/Event: "Every Four Years" with Howard K. Smith Part II of
III
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 104 VCR
Names/Participants: Presidential advisors Clark Clifford, John D.
Ehrlichman, Joseph Califano, Bryce Harlow,
and Richard Cheney, presidents Gerald Ford,
Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon; and
professors James David Barber, James McGregor
Burns, Richard Neustadt, and Thomas Cronin.
Date: 1980
Topic/Subject: Howard K. Smith narrates an historical
perspective on presidents' exercise of their
powers followed by a discussion on the subject
with three former presidents, presidential
advisors, and professors.
Location:
Producer: WHYY (Philadelphia)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 55 mins.

Title/Event: "Every Four Years" with Howard K. Smith Part III of
III
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 105 VCR
Names/Participants: Presidents Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Jimmy
Carter, former Presidential advisors Bryce
Harlow, Clark Clifford, John D. Ehrlichman,
Richard Cheney, Joseph Califano; professors
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and James David
Barber.
Date: 1980
Topic/Subject: Presidents' staffs and cabinets.
Location:
Producer: WHYY (Philadelphia)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 55 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: 1972 General Election: Nixon Commercials
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 106 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Sept. 11,1972
Topic/Subject: Five Commercials: "Russia" (4:20), "Passport"
(:60), "McGovern Turnabout" (:60), "McGovern
Defense" (:60), "McGovern Welfare" (:60)
Location:
Producer: Reeves Cintel Inc. for the Television Committee to Re-
elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 7 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: 1972 General Election: Nixon Commercial
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 107 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Oct. 26, 1972
Topic/Subject: Charlton Heston endorsement
Location:
Producer: Reeves Cinetel Inc. for the Television Committee to Re-
elect the President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: :60
Remarks:

Title/Event: 1972 General Election: Nixon Commercial
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 108 VCR
Names/Participants: Clark MacGregor, Campaign Director, Committee
to Re-elect the President.
Date: Oct. 3, 1972
Topic/Subject: Two takes of a 110-second Clark MacGregor
endorsement.
Location:
Producer: November Group of the Committee to Re-elect the
President
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA^
Time: 4 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition" (Part 1)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 109 VCR
Names/Participants: Martin Sheen as John Dean, Michael Callan as
Charles Colson, Lanny Chapman as L. Patrick
Gray, William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy,
Clifford David as Fred Fielding, Edward
Mallory as Henry Petersen, James Sloyan as
Ronald Ziegler, Ed Flanders as Charles
Shaffer, Christopher Guest as Jeb Stuart
Magruder, Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman,
Gerald O'Laughlin as John J. Caulfield,
Lawrence Pressman as H.R. Haldeman, John
Randolph as John Mitchell, Allen Oppenheimer
as George Simonson, Peter Mark Richman as
Robert Mardian, William Windom as Richard
Kleindienst, William Schallert as Herbert
Kalmbach, Rip Torn as Richard Nixon.
Date: July 27-29, 1982
Topic/Subject: Watergate affair based on the books Blind
Ambition by John Dean and Mo by Maureen Dean.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 110 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 27-29, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 3
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 111 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 27, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 4
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 112 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 28, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 5
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 113 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 28, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:
T
itle/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 6
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 114 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date:
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 7
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 115 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 29, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS movie "Blind Ambition," Part 8
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 116 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 29, 1982
Topic/Subject: See entry for Part 1.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 1
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 117 VCR
Names/Participants: Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards, Stefanie
Powers, Robert Vaughn, Lois Nettleton, Barry
Nelson, Harold Gould, Tony Bill, Andy
Griffith, John Houseman et al.
Date: June 9, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 118 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 9-10, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 3
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 119 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 10, 198
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 4
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 120 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 11, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 5
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 121 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 11, 14, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 6
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 122 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 14, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 7
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 123 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1
Date: June 15, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 8
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 124 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: July 15-16, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 9
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 125 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 16, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 10
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 126 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: June 17, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 11.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 127 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 17-18, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS television movie, "Washington Behind Closed
Doors," Part 12
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 128 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Part 1.
Date: June 18, 1982
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: SUMMER OF JUDGMENT: "The Watergate Hearings" (Part
1, 2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 129 VCR
Names/Participants: Charles McDowell (narrator), Senator Sam
Irvin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate
Committee), Senator Howard Baker (Vice
Chairman), other members of the committee,
Samuel Dash (chief counsel to the com-
mittee), Terry Lenzer (assistant to Sam Dash,
J. Fred Thompson (minority counsel),
witnesses Robert Odle (office mgr. of CREEP),
Carl M. Schoffler (policeman on the Watergate
beat), James McCord, Jr. (Watergate burglar),
Tony Elasowtz (messenger between the burglars
and the White House), and Jeb Stuart Magruder
(deputy director of CREEP).
Date: July 27, 1983
Topic/Subject: Hearings of the Senate Committee on Presidential
Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee)
conducted May-Aug. 1973.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: WETA (Washington)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings," Part
2 (2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 130 VCR
Names/Participants: Charles McDowell (narrator), Samuel Dash
(chief counsel to the Senate Watergate
Committee), J. Fred Thompson (minority
counsel), members of the Senate Watergate
Committee and House Judiciary Committee, John
D. Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, Alexander P.
Butterfield, Donald H. Donald H. Segretti,
Terry F. Lenzer (assistant chief counsel to
the Senate Watergate Committee), Martin
Kelly, Robert Benz, and Steven Hess (Nixon
biographer, former Nixon aide, and Brookings
Institution fellow).
Date: July 27, 1983
Topic/Subject: The program presents excerpts from and commentary
on the Senate Watergate hearings concerning
custody of the tapes,, activities of the White
House "Plumbers" and "dirty tricks" committed
against Democratic candidates. Shown are excerpts
from the testimony of Alexander P. Butterfield,
John D. Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, Donald H.
Segretti, Terry F.Lenzer, Martin Kelly, and
Robert Benz.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Producer: WETA (Washington)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 58 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: 20/20: Barbara Walters interviews Nixon.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 131 VCR
Names/Participants: Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Richard Nixon.
Date: May 9, 1985
Topic/Subject: President Reagan'visit to the Nazi cemetery at
Bitburg, West Germany; invitations to social
events at the White House, U.S.-Soviet relations,
embargo against Nicaragua, public opinion about
Vietnam, the 1988 Presidential election, former
President and Mrs. Nixon's health, Nixon's
opinion of how he would like to be remembered.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 15 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel: Ted Koppel interviews
former President Nixon and Prime Minister Lee Kuan
Yew of Singapore.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 132 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: April 30, 1985
Topic/Subject: Richard Nixon and the prime minister compare U.S.
involvement in Vietnam with U.S. involvement in
Central America.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 25 mins.
Remarks: starts at 460 on the meter

Title/Event: NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel: Vietnam Ten Years After
the U.S. Withdrawal.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 133 VCR
Names/Participants: Newsmen Ted Koppel, Richard Threlkeld, and
Charles Gibson, North Vietnamese diplomat Le
Duc Tho, Henry Kissinger, and North Vietnam's
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nguyen Co
Thach.
Date: April 29, 1985
Topic/Subject: Koppel and Threlkeld comment as a military parade
commemorating North Vietnam's victory over South
Vietnam is shown. Le Duc Tho discusses the
communist victory in South Vietnam and Vietnam's
future, U.S.-Vietnamese relations; the Paris
peace talks, including the MIA problem; and
Vietnam actions in Cambodia (Kampuchea). Henry
Kissinger responds to questions on peace
negotiations with North Vietnam, U.S. public
perception of Vietnam, North Vietnamese
occupation of Kampuchea, news reporting on
Vietnam, Le Duc Tho, and MIAs. Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs for North Vietnam, Nguyen Co
Thach, comments on the confidence level of the
North Vietnamese government during the war and
the 1968 Tet offensive.
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 65 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel: Interview with former
press secretaries Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, and
Jody Powell.
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 134 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Mar. 19, 1987
Topic/Subject: The program features reflections of the three
press secretaries about press conferences and
film footage of press conferences dealing with
major events during the Kennedy, Nixon, and
Carter administrations.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "U.S.-Soviet Relations: First 50 Years with Richard
Nixon" and others
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 135 VCR
Names/Participants: Thomas P. Whitney, wartime member of the U.S.
embassy in Moscow; Averell Harrimam, 5th U.S.
Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; George Kennan,
8th U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Marshall
Shulman, Director of the Averell Harriman
Institute at Columbia University; Walter
Stoessel, 14th U.S. ambassador to the
U.S.S.R.; Thomas J. Watson, Jr.; 16th
ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Jamie
Thompson, widow of ambassador Llewellyn
Thompson; Donald Kendall, Chairman of
Pepsico; and Harrison E.Salisbury.
Date: April 5, 1985
Topic/Subject: Russia's participation in World War II, the Cold
War, U.S.-Soviet relations during the Khrushchev
era, detente during the Nixon administrations,
and post-detente relations during the Carter and
Reagan administrations.
Location:
Producer: PBS, Channel 26
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 45 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC NEWS CLOSEUP: "45/85"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 136 VCR
Names/Participants: Hosts Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel, Alfred
Eisenstadt (Life magazine photographer),
Stuart Symington (former Asst. Secretary of
War and the Air Force), Dean Rusk (former
member of the State Dept.), Clark Clifford
(former Truman advisor), Richard Nixon, Sir
Oliver Franks (Chairman of the European
Recovery Conference), George Elsey (Truman
assistant), Sir Freddie Laker (Berlin Airlift
pilot), James Callaghan (former British
foreign secretary), Lauren Bacall (actress),
Edward R. Murrow (newsman), General Albert
Wedemeyer (Truman envoy to China), Han Xu
(Chinese ambassador to the United Nations),
and others.
Date: Sept. 18, 1985
Topic/Subject: The program covers the 1945-52 period. Topics
presented are celebration of V-J day, music,
demobilization, Churchill's iron curtain speech,
the Truman Doctrine and U.S. aid to Greece, the
Marshall Plan of 1947, French and British
colonial uprisings, the Soviet blockade of Berlin
and subsequent airlift, Soviet explosion of the
atomic bomb, congressional probes of communism,
the communist take-over of China, and the Korean
War.
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 40 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC NEWS CLOSEUP: "45/85"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 137 VCR
Names/Participants: Narrator Peter Jennings, Dwight Eisenhower,
John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gen. William
Harrison (Korean War armistice signatory),
John Colville (Churchill's private
secretary), Robert Bowie (State Department
planning director), Bui Tin (advisor to North
Vietnam's General Giap), Takeshi Watanabe
(Japanese economist), Akio Morita (electrical
engineer), John Foster Dulles (Secretary of
State), Henry Cabot Lodge (UN Ambassador),
Sir Anthony Nutting (former British foreign
minister), Huber Matos (former Castro aide),
Richard Bissell, Jr. (Deputy Director of the
CIA), Sir Bernard Lovell (British astronmer),
Lincoln White (State Dept. spokesman), and
the Mercury astronauts.
Date: Sept. 18, 1985
Topic/Subject: The program covers the 1953-60 period on the
following topics: the armistice ending the Korean
War; Project Solarium (a secret study setting
forth U.S. policy toward the U.S.S.R.), aid to
French forces in Vietnam, Japanese economic
growth, the 1956 Suez crisis, Soviet repression
of uprisings in Berlin (1953), Poland (1956), and
Hungary (1956); Castro's coming to power in Cuba,
the launch of Soviet Sputnik (1957),and the U-2
episode (1958).
Location:
Producer: ABC
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: ABC NEWS CLOSEUP: "45/85"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 138 VCR
Names/Participants: Narrator Ted Koppel, Henry Brandon (British
journalist), Denis Hegley (member of
Parliament), Mario Cabello (participant in
Bay of Pigs invasion), Fyodor Burlatsky
(Khrushchev aide), Dean Rusk (JFK Secretary
of State), Robert McNamara (JFK Secretary of
Defense), Rainer Hildebrandt (Berlin
refugee), Pierre Salinger (JFK press
secretary), George McGovern, Ted Sorenson
(JFK speech writer), David Powers (JFK
assistant), Arkady Schevchenko (Soviet
diplomat), Kenneth Kaunda (northern Rhodesian
official), Jack Valenti (LBJ assistant),
Harry McPherson (LBJ speech writer), General
William Westmoreland, Senator Barry
Goldwater, Liang Heng (Chinese guard),
Maurice Cove de Murville (diplomat), Clark
Clifford (LBJ advisor), Allen Wendt (foreign
service officer), Nguyen Co Thach (North
Vietnamese deputy foreign minister),
Senator Eugene McCarthy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jiri
Pelikin (Czech government official), Kim Phuc (Vietnam napalm
victim), Han Xu (Chinese government official), Henry Kissinger, Le
Duc Tho (North Vietnamese peace treaty negotiator), Shoichiru
Iramijiri (Honda engineer), Alexander Haig, Melor Stura (Izvestia
reporter), Gerald Ford,
Col. Harry Summers, Jr.(U.S. Army negotiator), Alan Carter (press
officer in South Vietnam), Abba Eban (Israeli foreign minister).
Date: Sept. 18, 1985
Topic/Subject: The program covers the 1961-75 period on the
following topics: the Bay of Pigs invasion, the
Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the 1963
Nuclear Test Ban treaty, build-up of U.S. forces
in South Vietnam, the cultural revolution in
China, anti-war demonstrations including Kent
State; Nixon's China initiative, U.S.-Soviet
diplomacy, the Watergate scandal, the 1973 Yom
Kippur war in the Middle East and resulting OPEC
oil embargo, and U.S. evacuation of South Vietnam
in 1975.
Location:
Producer: ABC

Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 45 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Signature": interview with John Ehrlichman
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 139 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: 1982
Topic/Subject: Ehrlichman discusses campaigning for the
presidency, family life of the candidates,
caliber of government employees, why he entered
government service, dealing with the press,
working with Nixon, job responsibilities, ethics,
Nixon's resignation and his pardon by President
Ford, and his feelings about his experience in
Washington.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Panorama"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 140 VCR
Names/Participants: Barry Schweid (Associated Press), John
Wallach (Hearst newspapers), Seymour M. Hersh
(author of The Price of Power: Kissinger in
the Nixon White House.
Date: June 17, 1983
Topic/Subject: The group discusses Hersh's book.
Location:
Producer: Channel 5 (Washington, D.C.)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Camp David" with Ann Compton
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 141 VCR
Names/Participants: Clark Clifford (advisor to presidents Truman,
Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter), H.R. Haldeman
(chief of staff to Pres. Nixon), Bill Gulley
(White House Military Office, 1966-77),
George Wireman (resident of Thurmont, the
town nearest Camp David), Commander William
B. Rigdon (naval aide and camp cmdr.,
Roosevelt and Truman administrations), Andrew
Goodpaster (Eisenhower staff secretary),
David Eisenhower, Michael Beschloss
(Presidential historian), Dave Powers (museum
curator, John F. Kennedy Library), Lynda
Johnson Robb, Helen Thomas (UPI bureau
chief), Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Dick Cheney
(chief of staff, Ford administration), Susan
Ford Vance, Jody Powell (Carter Press
Secretary), Hamilton Jordan (chief of staff
of the Carter administration), Jihan Sadat,
James A. Baker III (first Reagan
administration chief of staff), President
Reagan.
Date:
Topic/Subject: Ann Compton narrates an historical perspective on
Camp David.
Location:
Producer: PBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: GOOD MORNING AMERICA featuring Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 142 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject: Ms. Eisenhower discusses her parents in
connection with her book PAT NIXON: THE UNTOLD
STORY.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time: 8 mins.
Remarks: begins at 120 on the meter

Title/Event: NEWSLEADERS with guest Katharine Graham, publisher
of the WASHINGTON POST
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 143 VCR
Names/Participants: John Chancellor, Katharine Graham
Date:
Topic/Subject: Ms. Graham discusses treatment of women in
executive positions, Meg Greenfield (editorial
page editor), and Ben Bradlee (executive editor),
the Pentagon Papers case, relations with the
Nixon administration, coverage of the Watergate
scandal, the pressmen's strike (Oct. 1975),
entertainment of presidents and first ladies, the
Kennedy, Johnson, and Reagan administrations; and
former President Nixon.
Location:
Producer: WETA, Channel 26
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Concealed Enemies," Pt. 1--"Suspicion"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 144 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: April 1, 1985
Topic/Subject: movie about the Hiss-Chambers case
Location:
Producer: WETA, Channel 26 (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Concealed Enemies," Pt. 2--"Accusation"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 145 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: April 1, 1985
Topic/Subject: movie about the Hiss-Chambers case
Location:
Producer: WETA, Channel 26 (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Concealed Enemies": Part 3--"Investigation," Part
IV--"Verdict" (2 copies)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 146 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: April 8, 1985
Topic/Subject: movie about the Hiss-Chambers case
Location:
Producer: WETA, Channel 26 (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Concealed Enemies," Part IV, "Verdict"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 147 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: April 8, 1985
Topic/Subject: movie about the Hiss-Chambers case
Location:
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: Opening Session
and the First Plenary Session ("The Opening to
China")
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 148 VCR
Names/Participants: Professors William F. Levantrosser and Leon
Friedman (conference co-directors), Elliot
Richardson, Hugh Sidey (Time and Life
magazine columnist), Stephen Ambrose
(historian), Hofstra University President
James Shuart, Han Xu (U.S. Ambassador to
China), Frank G. Zarb (Chairman of the
Hofstra University Board of Trustees), Dr.
Robert C. Vogt (Dean of Hofstra's College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences), Robert G. Sutter
(China specialist with the Congressional
Research Service), C.L. Sulzberger (New York
Times foreign affairs reporter), Jerome H.
Cohen (lawyer), Kenneth Lieberthal (Director
of the University of Michigan's Center for
Chinese Studies).
Date: Dec. 27, 1987
Topic/Subject: Elliot Richardson delivers the first address of
the conference in which he comments on Nixon's
personality, his qualifications for the
presidency, his political philosophy, and foreign
policy. The succeeding speaker, Hugh Sidey,
relays his recollections of Nixon followed by
Stephen Ambrose's address comparing and
contrasting Eisenhower and Nixon. The next
speaker, Ambassador Han Xu, compares U.S.-Chinese
relations before and since Nixon's 1972 visit and
discusses leadership qualities of Nixon and the
Chinese leaders. The next speaker, Robert Sutter,
lectures on geopolitical conditions leading to
U.S.-Sino rapprochement and the risks taken by
Chinese and U.S. government leaders to achieve
it.

Sutter's address is followed by comments from
discussants Jerome Cohen, Kenneth Lieberthal, and
C.L. Sulzberger. Cohen concentrates on the legal
ramifications of Nixon's China diplomacy--China's
status in the United Nations, the territorial
status of Taiwan, and other nations' recognition
of the Chinese government(s). Sulzberger comments
on Nixon's experience in foreign affairs, the
development of his interest in China, and
geopolitical conditions making the Nixon visit
possible. Lieberthal presents his view of issues
relevant to contemporary and future Sino-U.S.
relations. The session ends with questions from
the audience.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 190 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: addresses by
Tom Wicker and Henry Kissinger
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 149 VCR
Names/Participants: James Shuart (President of Hofstra
University), Han Xu (China's Ambassador to
the U.S.), Tom Wicker (political columnist),
and Henry Kissinger.
Topic/Subject: The tape starts with a speech by Tom Wicker in
progress on the 1960 Presidential campaign. Henry
Kissinger's address focuses on the foreign policy
of President Nixon including its premises,
approach to the Soviet Union, China, the Middle
East, and the war in Vietnam. After his address
Kissinger takes questions from the audience.
Date: Dec. 27, 1987
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 105 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: "Appointments to
the Supreme Court" and
"Impeachment Proceedings"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 150 VCR
Names/Participants: "Appointments to the Supreme Court"-- Bernard
Jacob (Hofstra Law School professor),
presenter Joseph Calluori (attorney),
discussants Birch Bayh (attorney and former
senator from Indiana), John MacKenzie (The
New York Times), James B. McClellan
(President of the Center For Judicial
Studies). "Impeachment Proceedings"--Leon
Friedman (Hofstra Law School professor),
presenters Professor Dagmar Hamilton
(Associate Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs), Terry Sullivan
(Dept. of Government, UT-Austin), and
discussants John Doar (former chief counsel
to the House Judiciary Committee), Elizabeth
Holtzman (District Atty., Brooklyn, NY), and
Judge Charles Wiggins.
Date: Dec. 29, 1987
Topic/Subject: The first presenter in "Impeachment Proceedings,"
Dagmar Hamilton, distinguishes the proceedings of
the House Judiciary Committee from the
investigations by the special prosecutor and the
Committee On Presidential Campaign Activities
(Senate Watergate Committee) and gives special
attention to Article II, concerning abuse of
power, among the five articles of impeachment.

The second presenter, Terry Sullivan, evaluates
the following three characterizations about the
impeachment process using head-count data from
the majority leader's office: support for
impeachment among members of Congress built up
over time, members of Congress became concerned
about the balance of power between the executive
and legislative branches, and the system of
checks and balances worked.

Sullivan's address is followed by comments from
discussants John Doar, Elizabeth Holtzman, and
Judge Charles Wiggins. Doar discusses
considerations involved in presenting information
to the Judiciary Committee and how the committee
defined impeachable offenses. Holtzman
concentrates on the decision of the Speaker of
the House to choose the Judiciary Committee to
conduct impeachment hearings, the attitude of
committee members toward the proceedings, the
decision to televise the proceedings, the
definition of impeachment, and the committee's
failure to pass an article of impeachment on the
bombing of Cambodia.

Judge Charles Wiggins examines the historical
antecedents to the doctrine of impeachment, the
Judiciary Committee's definition of impeachment,
its rejection of a standard for abuse of power,
and evidence for articles of impeachment I
(obstruction of justice), II (abuse of power),
and III (refusal to respond to congressional
subpoenas). Questions from the audience follow
both sessions.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 225 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Opening to China" and first thirty-five minutes
of "The Protest Movement"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 151 VCR
Names/Participants: "The Opening to China" (see entry for Tape
148). "The Protest Movement"-- David
Dellinger (author), Ronald Silverman (Hofstra
University School of Law), Tom Hayden
(California state assemblyman).
Date: Dec. 28-29, 1987
Topic/Subject:
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s):
Provenance:
Time:
Remarks: The tape terminates during Hayden's speech.

Title/Event: "The Protest Movement" (first 75 mins.), "The
"Protest Movement" (entire 100 mins.), and
"Watergate Re-examined"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 152 VCR
Names/Participants: "The Protest Movement"--Ronald Silverman
(Hofstra University School of Law), David
Dellinger (author), Tom Hayden (California
state assemblyman), Sanford Gottlieb
(analyst, Center For Defense Information),
Egil Krogh (attorney), and David Garrow
(political science professor). "Watergate Re-
examined" (see entry for Tape 153).
Date: Dec. 29, 1987
Topic/Subject: For "Watergate Re-examined " see entry for Tape
153.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 260 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: "The Protest
Movement" and "Watergate Re-examined"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 153 VCR
Names/Participants: "The Protest Movement"--Egil Krogh, David
Garrow. "Watergate Re-examined"-- presenters
David Riese Simon (Assoc. Prof. of Criminal
Justice, San Diego State University), Nancy
Kassop (Political Science Dept., State
University of New York), Stanley Kutler
(Professor of History, U. of Wisconsin),
discussants J. Anthony Lukas (author) and
Earl Silbert (attorney).
Date: Dec. 29, 1987
Topic/Subject: In "Watergate Re-examined" Professor Simon draws
an analogy between Watergate and the Iran-Contra
scandal. Professor Kassop relates Nixon's
dismissal of Archibald Cox to arguments for and
against Presidential removal power and explains
the constitutional significance of the removal.
Professor Kutler states his opposition to what he
considers de- emphasis of the Watergate scandal
in revisionist studies of the Nixon
administration. Discussant J. Anthony Lucas
maintains that the motive for the Watergate
burglary was to find what Larry O'Brien knew
about Howard Hughes' involvement with Nixon and
comments on Jim Hougan's book Secret Agenda. As
Earl Silbert, the next discussant, is presenting
an evaluation of the FBI investigation of the
Watergate break-in, the tape terminates.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 126 mins.
Remarks: The tape begins with the session, "The Protest
Movement," in progress, and discussant Egil Krogh
speaking.

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: address by Jeb
Stuart Magruder and two plenary sessions, "Nixon
Biographers" and "Social Welfare Policies"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 154 VCR
Names/Participants: Rev.Jeb Stuart Magruder. "Nixon
Biographers"--William Levantrosser (co-
director), Louis Koenig (political science
professor), Stephen Ambrose (history
professor), Roger Morris (biographer),
Herbert Parmet (history professor), Raymond
Price (President of the Economic Club of New
York and former Nixon speech writer), and
James Hickey, Jr. (law professor). "Social
Welfare Policies"-- Carl Lieberman (political
science professor), Joan Hoff-Wilson (history
professor), Robert Finch (Nixon HEW
secretary), Elliot Richardson (Nixon HEW
secretary), and John Ehrlichman (Assistant to
the President for Domestic Affairs).
Date: Dec. 28, 1987
Topic/Subject: The tape begins with Jeb Stuart Magruder's
address in which he comments on the Watergate
burglary and cover-up. In the session, "Nixon
Biographies," Stephen Ambrose compares sources of
information on the lives of Eisenhower and Nixon.
He is followed by Robert Morris, who emphasizes
the importance of Nixon's youth in southern
California and his early political career in
shaping his character. Herbert Parmet follows by
developing the theme of Nixon as a political
centrist. Raymond Price then recounts his
impressions of Nixon based on their twenty-year
personal association. The speakers then respond
to questions from the audience.

The session on "Social Welfare Policies" begins
with Professor Carl Lieberman's presentation
concerning six welfare proposals of the Nixon
administration and reasons for their successes
and failures in Congress. Joan Hoff-Wilson
follows with her thoughts on the origin and
development of the Nixon welfare reform
legislation. Robert Finch, Elliot Richardson,
and John Ehrlichman comment on the presentations
of Lieberman and Hoff-Wilson before the session
concludes with four questions from the audience.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restrictions: COPYRIGHT
Provenance:
Time: 195 mins.
Remarks: The tape begins while Jeb Magruder's speech is in
progress.

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium--"Nixon
Biographers" and "Social Welfare Policies"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 155 VCR
Names/Participants: See entry for Tape 154.
Date: Dec. 28, 1987
Topic/Subject: See entry for Tape 154.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks: The tape terminates during the discussion of papers
presented in the session, "Social Welfare Policies."

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: "Social
Welfare Policies" (session joined in progress)
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 156 VCR
Names/Participants: Carl Lieberman (political science professor),
Joan Hoff-Wilson (history professor), Robert
Finch (Nixon HEW secretary), Elliot
Richardson (Nixon HEW secretary), and John
Ehrlichman (Assistant to the President for
Domestic Affairs).
Date: Dec. 28, 1987
Topic/Subject:
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time:
Remarks:

Title/Event: Hofstra University Nixon Symposium: "Evolution of
the Nixon Legacy"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 157 VCR
Names/Participants: Sherri Caven (Dept. of Sociology, San
Francisco State University), John Ehrlichman
(Assistant to the President for Domestic
Affairs), H.R. Haldeman (Nixon's chief of
staff), Robert Finch (Nixon HEW secretary),
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (historian), and
C. L. Sulzberger (former New York Times
columnist).
Date: Jan. 1, 1987
Topic/Subject: Sherri Caven compares "the old Nixon" with "the
new Nixon" and suggests techniques used by Nixon
to create a favorable impression of himself. John
Ehrlichman discourses on the difficulty of
categorizing and characterizing Nixon before
discussing Nixon's domestic program. H.R.
Haldeman offers guidelines for writing a history
of the Nixon administration and a critique of the
literature on the subject. Robert Finch comments
on re- organization of the executive branch, the
"New

Federalism" and health care.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. delivers a presentation on three aspects
of the Nixon legacy--foreign policy, domestic economic policy,and
the Nixon presidency's impact on the Constitution. C.L.
Sulzberger, the final speaker, discusses foreign policy.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 110 mins.
Remarks: The video is of poor quality. The tape begins with the
session in progress. Consequently, the first
presentation, David Riccio's reading of his paper,
"Richard Nixon Reconsidered: The Conservative As
Liberal," is missed entirely.

Title/Event: "Secrecy, the Government, and the Media" and
"Evolution of the Nixon Legacy"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 158 VCR
Names/Participants: "Secrecy, the Government, and the Media"--
Victor Navasky (editor, The Nation), Gerald
Warren (editor, San Diego Union), John
Kincaid (Dir. of Research, Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Affairs),
Mark Rozell (Political Science Professor,
Mary Washington College), Tom Brokaw (NBC
News), Ronald Ziegler (President, National
Association of Truck Stop Operators), Howard
Simons (Curator, Nieman Fellowships Program).
"Evolution of the Nixon Legacy"--Barry Riccio
(history professor), Sharri Caven (Dept of
Sociology, San Francisco State University),
John Ehrlichman (Assistant to the President
for Domestic Affairs), H.R. Haldeman (Nixon's
chief of staff), Robert Finch (Nixon HEW
secretary), Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
(historian), C.L. Sulzberger (former New York
Times columnist).
Date: Jan. 1, 1987
Topic/Subject: "Secrecy, the Government, and the Media": The
paper readers are John Kincaid and Mark Rozell.
Kincaid makes a presentation on the Pentagon
Papers case; Rozell delivers a paper on Nixon's
concept of executive privilege. Commentators are
Gerald Warren, Tom Brokaw, Ron Ziegler, and
Howard Simons. Warren comments on the Pentagon
Papers case, leaks in the administration, and
secrets in the Nixon administrations. Brokaw
comments on the withholding of information by
government and the press, classification of
documents, the Pentagon Papers case, executive
privilege, leaks to the press, and the conduct of
the press during the Watergate investigation.
Ron Ziegler follows with comments concerning
prosecution of disclosers of classified
documents, executive privilege, and Nixon's
personality. Howard Simons offers remarks on the
Pentagon papers, classification of documents,
leakage of secrets, and the Watergate scandal.
The session concludes with questions from the
audience.

"Evolution of the Nixon Legacy": Paper readers
are Barry Riccio and Sherri Caven. Riccio's
paper is titled "Richard Nixon Reconsidered: The
Conservative As Liberal." Caven's paper, which
supplies sociological theories of rehabilitation
to Nixon, compares "the old Nixon" with "the new
Nixon" and suggests techniques used by Nixon to
create a favorable public image.

The succeeding speakers are John Ehrlichman, H.R.
Haldeman, Robert Finch, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Jr.; and C.L. Sulzberger. Ehrlichman discourses
on the difficulties of categorizing and
characterizing Nixon before discussing Nixon's
domestic program. H.R. Haldeman offers
guidelines for writing the history of the Nixon
administration and a critique of the literature
on the subject. Robert Finch comments on re-
organization of the executive branch, the "New
Federalism" and health care. Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr. delivers a presentation on three
aspects of the Nixon legacy: foreign policy,
domestic economic policy, and the Nixon
presidency's impact on the Constitution. C.L.
Sulzberger, the final speaker, discusses foreign
policy.
Location: Hempstead, NY
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s):
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 240 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Signature": An interview with Helen Thomas
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 159 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date: Dec. 14, 1987
Topic/Subject: Ms. Thomas discusses her role at presidential
news conferences, accessibility to President
Reagan, covering President and Mrs. Kennedy, her
career in journalism, the press's relationship
with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the
press's right to cover private lives of public
figures, the White House press corps' working
environment, and her views on President Reagan.
Location:
Producer: CBS cable television
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials, NARA
Time: 30 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: CBS REPORTS with Walter Cronkite: "Hiroshima Plus
40 Years . . . and Still Counting"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 160 VCR
Names/Participants: John McCloy (Asst. Sec. of War in the Truman
administration), Harold Agnew (nuclear
physicist), Col. Paul Tibbets (Hiroshima bomb
group commander), McGeorge Bundy (Johnson
administration national security advisor),
Bernard O'Keefe (naval radar specialist
worker on the Nagasaki bomb), Caspar
Weinberger (officer on General MacArthur's
staff), Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara,
Harold Brown (Pentagon Director of Research),
Arkady Schevchenko (Soviet defector), Jimmy
Carter, Bromley Smith (Presidential advisor),
and James Schlesinger (former Sec. of
Defense).
Date:
Topic/Subject: Cronkite narrates an historical synthesis on the
dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki followed by a segment on the management
of nuclear weapons in the 1945-60 period. The
latter segment includes U.S. consideration of
nuclear weapons in the 1948 Berlin crisis and
Korea, and Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb.
The program then focuses on the 1961 Berlin and
1962 Cuban missile crises followed by a review of
the role of nuclear weapons in later U.S.-Soviet
relations that includes the 1963 and 1967 Middle
East wars. The program concludes with comments
from Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Harold Brown,
Caspar Weinberger, Arkady Schevchenko, James
Schlesinger, McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, and
Harold Agnew on the significance of nuclear
weapons for U.S.-Soviet relations.
Location:
Producer: CBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 70 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Nixon In China"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 161 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date: April 9, 1988
Topic/Subject: The historically based, surrealistic opera,
depicting President Nixon's 1972 trip to China,
is introduced by Walter Cronkite and performed by
the Houston Grand Opera. It is composed by John
Adams and directed by Peter Sellers with libretti
by Alice Goodman.
Location:
Producer: PBS
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 180 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "War And Peace In The Nuclear Age: II, The Weapon of
Choice" AND "Secret Intelligence: Intervention"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 162 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: WGBH AND KCET
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 120 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Secret Intelligence: Cuba"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 163 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: KCET
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Secret Intelligence: I, The Only Rule Is Win"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 164 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: KCET
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 m
Remarks: 3/4"U-matic videocassette

Title/Event: "Unauthorized Biography: Richard Milhous Nixon"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 165 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date: March 12, 1989; 2 pm
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: Media Broadcasting Services
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 120 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "War And Peace In The Nuclear Age: A Bigger Bang
For The Buck"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 166 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject: The emergence of the preference for the
maintenance of large arsenals of tactical and
"theater" nuclear weapons to the expense of
fielding a large standing conventional army during
the 1950's and 60's during the Eisenhower and
Kennedy Administrations.
Location:
Producer: WGBH
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, NARA
Time: 60 m
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Unauthorized Biography of Richard Nixon", PART
1 of 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 167 VCR
Names/Participants: Richard Nixon, Barbara Hower, Stephen Ambrose
Date: 1989
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: Media Broadcasting Services
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: NLNP "off-air" recording
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: U-matic videocassette

Title/Event: "The Unauthorized Biography of Richard Nixon", PART
2 of 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 168 VCR
Names/Participants: Richard Nixon, Stephen Ambrose, Barbara Hower
Date: 1989
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: Media Broadcasting Services
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: NLNP "off-air" recording
Time: 60 mins.
Remarks: U-matic videocassette

Title/Event: "Nixon/Frost Interview: Raw, Unedited Material"
PART 1 of 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 169 VCR
Names/Participants: David Frost & Richard Nixon
Date: March 23, 1977
Topic/Subject:
Location: San Clemente, CA.
Producer: Paradine Productions
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT & possible release conditions
Provenance:
Time: 67 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "Nixon/Frost Interview: Raw, Unedited Material" PART
2 of 2
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 170 VCR
Names/Participants: Richard Nixon & David Frost
Date: March 23, 1977
Topic/Subject:
Location: San Clemente, CA.
Producer: Paradym Productions
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT & possible release conditions
Provenance:
Time: 67 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "FRONTLINE: Campaign, The Choice"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 171 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date: 1988
Topic/Subject: Examination of the issues & personalities
involved in the 1988 general election
Location:
Producer: Washington Media Associates
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: donation by producer
Time: 1 hour 41 mins.
Remarks:

Title/Event: "A.E.I. Washington Debates for the Seventies:
National Security & The Nixon Doctrine"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 172 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: American Enterprise Institute
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Record Group 200, NARA
Time: 60 mins
Remarks:

Title/Event: "A.E.I. Washington Debates for the Seventies:
Watergate & the Political Process"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 173 VCR
Names/Participants:
Date:
Topic/Subject:
Location:
Producer: American Enterprise Institute
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: Record Group 200, NARA
Time: 60 mins
Remarks:

Title/Event: "ISSUES & ANSWERS with Col. David Hackworth"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 174 VCR
Names/Participants: USA Colonel David Hackworth
Date:
Topic/Subject: Hackworth is interviewed and discusses the
training & preparedness of US troops in Vietnam
Location: Vietnam
Producer: ABC News
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance: transfer from WHCA "off air" recording
Time: 30 mins
Remarks:

Title/Event: "BILL MOYER'S JOURNAL SPECIAL REPORT: A
Conversation with the President [Jimmy Carter]
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 175 VCR
Names/Participants: President Carter and Bill Moyers Date/Time:
Nov. 13, 1978
Topic/Subject:
Location: Oval Office, The White House
Source: WETA-TV
Producer:
Restrictions: COPYRIGHT
Time: 59 mins
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Nixon Resignation: Fifteen Years Later"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 176 VHS
Names/Participants: Presidents Nixon and Ford, Paul Sarbanes,
Tom Railsback, David Gergen & Jack Nelson
Date: 1989
Topic/Subject: C-Span retrospective on Nixon's resignation,
includes panel discussion of the long term
effects of Watergate; Nixon's resignation and
farewell to the staff speeches; and Ford's
swearing-in and inaugural speech
Location:
Producer: C-Span
Restriction(s):
Provenance: NARA off-air recording
Time: 2 hours
Remarks:

Title/Event: "The Fund Broadcast [Checkers Speech]"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 177 VCR
Names/Participants: Senator & Mrs. Richard Nixon
Date: 1952
Topic/Subject:
Location: El Capitan NBC TV Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Producer:
Restriction(s): not COPYRIGHTed
Provenance: Nixon Presidential Materials
Time: 30 minutes
Remarks: B/W kinescope transfer

Title/Event: "Outs from President Nixon's Resignation Speech"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF # 181 VHS
Names/Participants:
Date: August 8, 1974
Topic/Subject: Unexpurgated appearance by Nixon during the TV
camera set-up prior to his resignation speech
Location: Oval Office, The White House
Producer:
Restriction(s): COPYRIGHT
Provenance:
Time: 8 minutes
Remarks:

Title/Event: President Nixon's "Address to the Nation Announcing
Decision to Resign the Office of President of the
United States"
File Designator/ID No./Format: MVF# 182 VTR
Names/Participants: President Nixon
Date: August 8, 1974
Topic/Subject:
Location: The Oval Office, The White House; Washington, D.C.
Producer: WETA
Restrictions:
Provenance: NLNP
Time: 25 m
Remarks: One inch master, 3/4" U-matic reference copy available.

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