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 · 22,599 with audio · 19,728 AI transcripts · 2,583 conversations cut into their own clips
Start with the famous conversations
- The “smoking gun” conversation June 23, 1972
- “A cancer on the presidency” March 21, 1973
- The 18½-minute gap June 20, 1972
- “Stonewall it” March 22, 1973
- “Blow the safe”: Brookings and the Huston plan June 17, 1971
- “Drop the goddamn thing”: the ITT call April 19, 1971
- First word of the Pentagon Papers June 13, 1971
- Home from China February 28, 1972
- The Christmas bombing December 18, 1972
- The death of J. Edgar Hoover May 2, 1972
People on the tapes
Bob Haldeman 2,425Henry A. Kissinger 1,538John D. Ehrlichman 837Charles W. Colson 891John W. Dean 70John N. Mitchell 211Ronald L. Ziegler 1,236Alexander M. Haig Jr. 712John B. Connally 352Rose Mary Woods 763Alexander P. Butterfield 1,052Pat Nixon 354George P. Shultz 422William P. Rogers 273Gerald R. Ford 112Spiro T. Agnew 105J. Edgar Hoover 15Billy Graham 28
Major subjects
Watergate 1,082Vietnam War 1,748People's Republic of China 320Soviet Union 167Pentagon Papers 1321972 election 871George McGovern 242Economic policy 822Wage and price controls 129Busing 183Daniel Ellsberg 64SALT 120Paris Peace Accords 72India-Pakistan War 52Supreme Court 86FBI 125Press relations 632Welfare Reform 128
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On this day — November 11
President Nixon met with H. R. Haldeman and Henry Kissinger to strategize for an upcoming televised announcement, weighing the benefits of holding it in the Oval Office versus the press room to maximize public impact while limiting media access. The convers…
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger discuss the strategy for an upcoming Vietnam troop withdrawal announcement, expressing significant frustration with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird over their policy disagreement…
President Nixon and Charles Colson discuss strategies to manage business community anxieties and bolster confidence in the national economy following the implementation of Phase II wage and price controls. They characterize business leaders as unnecessarily…
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger discussed strategies for managing Vietnam troop withdrawal announcements to minimize political backlash and maintain leverage in ongoing negotiations. During their conversation, they identified John J. McCloy as a potenti…
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. How the taping system worked · About the project and the data