Nixon White House Tapes
Listen to and search all 22,725 conversations from the 949 Nixon White House recordings, 1971–1973 — with AI transcripts, summaries and the Nixon Library finding aids.
22,725 conversations · 22,588 with audio · 19,553 AI transcripts · 850 conversations cut into their own clips
On this day — October 21
President Nixon met with H.R. Haldeman, John B. Connally, and Ronald L. Ziegler to coordinate administrative messaging and manage political strategy. The discussion focused on the selection process for Pay Board appointments, the public relations strategy r…
President Nixon, H. R. Haldeman, and Richard A. Moore met to prepare for a public address regarding the President’s nominations of William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr. to the Supreme Court. The discussion focused on refining the speech text, emphas…
President Nixon met with Richard A. Moore and Rose Mary Woods to rehearse and refine a televised speech regarding his nominations for the Supreme Court. The discussion focused on articulating the President’s judicial philosophy, specifically his preference …
President Nixon met with H. R. Haldeman and Ronald Ziegler to coordinate the public relations strategy and press messaging regarding his forthcoming Supreme Court nominations. The discussion focused on managing the American Bar Association’s (ABA) role and …
What is in the archive?
Between February 1971 and July 1973 a voice-activated system secretly recorded President Richard Nixon's meetings and telephone calls in the Oval Office, the Old Executive Office Building, the Cabinet Room and Camp David. The National Archives has catalogued 22,725 conversations across 949 tapes. Easy Nixon brings together the released audio, the Nixon Library finding aids, AI-generated transcripts for more than 19,000 conversations, and short AI summaries — all free, with permanent links you can cite. Read more about the project and the data.