Details about the newly available Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum materials and links to the online finding aids are provided below. A chronology of past releases can be found here.
New Nixon Materials Available
April 21, 2026
Type of Material: Previously Classified Materials Release
In the 400+ documents processed systematically and in response to mandatory declassification review requests, the opening includes files from the National Security Council (NSC) Files, Country Files - Africa, Country Files - Europe, and Country Files - Far East; President's Daily Briefings; NSC Institutional Files; White House Special Files, Staff Member and Office Files; Henry Kissinger Office Files; and H.H. Saunders Chronological Files.
This Systematic and Mandatory Declassification Review release includes eight boxes of newly declassified materials.
- A finding aid for the Mandatory Review materials is available as a PDF file.
- A finding aid for the Systematic Review materials is available as a PDF file.
April 1, 2026
- White House Central Files: Staff Member & Office Files
February 10, 2026
- White House Central Files: Staff Member & Office Files
December 9, 2025
Release of 56 Presidential Briefing Books
- White House Central Files: Staff Member & Office Files
Questions? Email us at nixonreference@nara.gov or call 714-983-9320.
Press Inquiries
All press inquiries are welcome to contact the National Archives and Records Administration Public and Media Communications staff by email: public.affairs@nara.gov or by phone: 202-357-5300.
Please contact the Nixon Library staff at nixon@nara.gov or 714-983-9120 with urgent press requests so we can better assist you.
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Press Releases
2025
2024
- Previously Classified Materials Opening - October 10, 2024
- Systematic Review Release - August 9, 2024 - Historic Opening of Previously Classified Documents
2023
2016
- Nixon Library Releases "New" Alexander Butterfield Papers December 6
- September 29, 2016 NARA press release "National Archives Recognizes Four Historians Who Shaped the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
2015
2014
- Former Nixon Aide to Discuss Rare Interviews He Conducted with The 37th President
- Newly Released and Unedited Video Shows President Nixon Speaking Candidly About His Resignation
- Involuntary Memories Exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
- Portraits of the Fallen Memorial Exhibition at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
- Farewell, Mr. President: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the State Services for President Richard Nixon
- Play Ball! Presidents and Baseball, April 6 - October 3, 2014: Nixon Library Announces Special Exhibit on U.S. Presidents and Their Love for America's Pastime
2013
- New Exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency
- Nixon Presidential Library and Museum to Open Final Installment of Tapes and Additional Textual Materials August 21
2011
- National Archives to Release President Nixon Grand Jury Records on November 10; Nixon Presidential Historical Materials to be Opened by the Nixon Library
- The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Opens Additional Textual Materials, Dictabelt Recordings and a New Web Exhibit on Vietnam
- National Archives Nixon Library Opens New Watergate Gallery March 31, 2011
2010
- National Archives Nixon Library to Release White House Tapes, Documents and Oral Histories
- National Archives Nixon Library to Release Documents and Oral Histories
- Panel to Discuss "President Nixon and the Environment" on Earth Day 2010
- Nixon Presidential Library Opens "School House to the White House" Exhibition
- Nixon Presidential Library Opens 280,000 Pages of New Nixon-Era Materials
2009
- John Dean, Martin and Annelise Anderson, and Richard Ben-Veniste to speak at Nixon Library
- Nixon Presidential Library Opens New Family-Frendly Holiday Exhibition
- Author and Former Senator George McGovern Discusses Abraham Lincoln
- Nixon Presidential Library to Host Panel on the Importance of the Apollo Missions
2008
- Nixon Presidential Library to Open Additional White House Tape Recordings and Textual Materials
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum To Host National Issues Forums Series This Fall
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum celebrates its first anniversary
- Nixon Library announces that the Wilderness Years collection is now open for research
- Author Rick Perlstein to Speak at Nixon Library September 24
- Geoff Shepard to Speak at Nixon Library June 24
- Author James Rosen to Speak at Nixon Library June 17
- Journalist Abrahm Lustgarten Speaks at Nixon Library May 21
- Matthew Yglesias to Speak at Nixon Library May 7
- Author Ed Gray Speaks at Nixon Library April 9
- Dr. Bernard Rostker Speaks at Nixon Library April 4
- New York Times Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee Speaks at Nixon Library March 29
- Pulitzer Prize Winner David Hume Kennerly Speaks at Nixon Library January 28
- Ambassadors Will Discuss South Korean American Relations at Nixon Library on January 25
2007
- Art Show Exhibits Student Work at Nixon Presidential Library
- Nixon Presidential Library to Release New Materials at the National Archives
- Harry Jeffrey, 70; Was Nixon Oral Historian
- Magical Exhibit Features More Than 250 Toy Trains
- Bernstein to speak at Nixon Library October 22
- Legal Transfer of Nixon Library and Tapes and Documents Release
2006
2005
2004
2003
- The National Archives Opens Additional National Security Council Files Relating to the Nixon Presidency
- Archivist Accepts Watergate Tape Panel Recommendations
- National Archives Opens Oral History Interviews with Nixon Administration Officials
2002
- Media Alert: Opportunity to Photograph Watergate Break-In Objects at the National Archives
- The National Archives Opens Additional National Security Council Files Relating to the Nixon Presidency
- National Archives Releases 500 Hours of Additional Nixon White House Tape Recorded Conversations
- Photographs of President Nixon's Last Days in Office Are Now Available on CD-ROM from the National Archives
2001
- National Archives Extends Closing Date to Begin Testing of the Nixon "18½-Minute Gap" Tape
- National Archives Announces Request for Qualified Candidates to Test Feasibility of Recovering Audio from the Nixon "18½-Minute Gap" Tape
- National Archives To Make Nixon Tapes Available for Sale and Self-Service Copying
- The National Archives Opens Additional National Security Council Materials Relating to the Nixon Presidency
- National Archives Releases 420 Hours of Additional Nixon White House Tape Recorded Conversations
2000
- National Archives Advisory Committee on Preservation Reaches Conclusions on "18½-Minute Gap" Tape
- MEDIA ALERT: National Archives Preservation Advisory Group to Evaluate "18½-Minute Gap" Audiotape
- Additional Nixon Papers to Be Opened at the National Archives
- Nixon Tapes Available for Sale
- Portions of Nixon Tapes Available for Sale
1999
- National Archives Releases Additional Nixon White House Tape Recorded Conversations
- Additional Nixon Tapes and Papers to be Opened at the National Archives
1998
- Under Court Order National Archives Prepares to Return Private Portions of Nixon Tapes
- National Archives and Records Administration Releases Cabinet Room Tape Recorded Conversations
1997
- National Archives and Records Administration Releases Three POW/MIA Tape Recorded Conversations
- New On-Line Exhibit at the National Archives: When Nixon Met Elvis
- NARA Releases Additional Nixon Papers
- NARA Releases Additional Watergate Tape Recorded Conversations
- NARA to Open Additional Nixon Papers
1996
Read about the 2015-2016 museum galleries redesign:
- New Nixon Library Opening Website
- April 27, 2017 Politico magazine article "Washington Could Use a Man Like Nixon Again"
- February 25, 2017 Lincoln Journal Star article "Nixon Library: A reminder of GOP's progressive past"
- February 21, 2017 Fox 2 now St. Louis article "President Nixon’s great nephew talks about the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
- January 21, 2017 The Economist article "Remembering an accomplished but fatally flawed president: History lessons from Richard Nixon’s presidential library"
- January 16, 2017 Wall Street Journal article "Presidential Libraries: Ego vs. Truth"
- November 23, 2016 USA Today article "Finally! Arnold Schwarzenegger gets his chance to feel like the president and sit behind the Oval Office desk (but it's only a replica at the Richard Nixon museum)"
- November 11, 2016 USA Today article "Nixon Library reboots for a new generation"
- November 2, 2016 OC Weekly article "A Nixon-Hater Reconsiders Tricky Dick in the Age of Trump at the Rebooted Nixon Library"
- October 28, 2016 Orange County Register article "At Nixon Library, former top Henry Kissinger adviser put in history's midst"
- October 27, 2016 Whitter College newspaper Quaker Campusarticle "$15 MILLION NIXON LIBRARY RENOVATION: RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY STEPS INTO THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY"
- October 25, 2016 Fullerton College newspaper The Hornet article "Ground-breaking renovations unveiled at re-opening of the New Nixon Library."
- October 24, 2016 Al Jazeera video "Richard Nixon Library reopens ahead of Election Day"
- October 17, 2016 U.S. News and World Report article "Richard Nixon Library and Museum Makeover"
- October 17, 2016 CCTV America article "Renovated Nixon Library commemorates historic trip to China"
- October 16, 2016 ShanghaiDaily.com article "Nixon Presidential Library reopens after renovations, China pavilion highlighted"
- October 16, 2016 The Guardian article "Richard Nixon library's reopening highlights Republican party's rift"
- October 14, 2016 CBS News video "Nixon Library Reopens in California"
- October 14, 2016 ABC News video "Tour the New Nixon Library and Museum With Richard Nixon's Grandson"
- October 14, 2016 Fox News article "Modernized museum brings Richard Nixon up close and personal"
- October 14, 2016 Los Angeles Times article "Richard Nixon Presidential Library reopens after renovation"
- October 14, 2016 Orange County Register article "Nixon Library opening ceremony for re-imagined galleries draws dignitaries, crowds"
- October 14, 2016 AOL News article "Richard Nixon hid one unlikely item in his Oval Office desk"
- October 14, 2016 mynewsLA.com article "Disgraced in life, Nixon honored by Kissinger, Wilson, Schwarzenegger"
- October 13, 2016 San Francisco Chronicle article "Modernized museum brings Richard Nixon up close and personal"
- October 13, 2016 Wall Street Journal article "Nixon Library Gets A New Look. Will the Ex-President Also Get One?"
- October 12, 2016 Orange County Register article "5 must-see new features at the renovated Nixon Library"
- October 12, 2016 Orange County Register article "Sneak peek at $15 million Nixon Library renovation, new exhibits being unveiled Friday"
- October 12, 2016 Orange County Register article "Timeline: The history of President Nixon and the Nixon Library"
- September 29, 2016 NARA press release "National Archives Recognizes Four Historians Who Shaped the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
- September 28, 2016 Nixon Foundation press release "HENRY KISSINGER, TWO CA GOVERNORS, NIXON FAMILY TO OPEN NEW NIXON LIBRARY"
- September 5, 2016 Politico article "Two Decades after His Death, Richard Nixon Is Still Setting Precedents"
- August 26, 2016 Orange County Register article "Nixon Library's Army One helicopter hauled to Chino to be refurbished"
- August 16, 2016 Los Angeles Times article "The 'new' Nixon library's challenge: Fairly depicting a 'failed presidency'"
- August 9, 2016 Nixon Foundation press release "GRANDCHILDREN TO CHAIR LIBRARY OPENING"
- July 6, 2016 Orange County Register article "Remodeled Nixon library makes peace with the past as it becomes more modern"
- June 2, 2016 Nixon Foundation press release "NEW NIXON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM TO OPEN OCT 14"
- May 25, 2016 Orange County Register article "Nixon Library will re-create Oval Office"
- March 4, 2016 Orange County Register article "Nixon Library: Renderings of $15 million renovations and new exhibit on 37th president's historic trip to China released"
- January 9, 2016 Orange County Register article "Construction begins on renovated Nixon library"
- July 20, 2015 Orange County Register article "Nixon library galleries to close for a year, get $15 million upgrades"