In February 1971, President Nixon began secretly taping conversations and telephone calls in several locations, including the Oval Office, his office in the Old Executive Office Building, the Cabinet Room, and Camp David.

There are 2,019 hours of tapes containing conversations from February 1971 through July 1973 open to the public.

The Library is working toward making more of the tapes available directly online.

The following audio files are available online:

• All conversations from tapes (released July 11, 2007):
  • White House Telephone Tape 33
  • Old Executive Office Building Tape 388
  • Oval Office Tape 813
    
    
• Watergate Trial Tapes
  Listen to the audio and access the transcripts to the excerpted Nixon White House taped conversations that were introduced as evidence in the Watergate Trials.
  
  
• A sample of conversations
  A selection of conversations on a variety of topics, such as foreign policy, Agnew, Rehnquist, and press relations.
  
  
• Nixon's trip to China
  Listen to Nixon discuss his rationale for the trip, the arrival of the pandas at the National Zoo, and his reasoning for the importance of restoring communications with the People's Republic of China.