r/history • u/yoodle23 • 21d ago

Does anyone know a way to listen to the Nixon White House Tapes?

Nixon basically recorded every conversation he had in the White House between 1971 and 1973.

I went to listen to some of them, because it sounds super interesting, but the nixonlibrary.gov archive is a complete and unusable mess, and there's no transcripts to actually discern what they're saying.

Does anybody know a good place to listen to some of these audios? I was hoping they might be archived on a Youtube page but I couldn't find anything of the sort.

It seems strange that it's so difficult to listen to what is such a significant and rich source of history.

Thanks!

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u/VVillyD 20d ago edited 20d ago

http://nixontapes.org/index.html

They have all the tapes in mp3 format and pdf transcripts of most (if not all). The website itself is a bit clunky. It looks like it was made in a high school web design class 20 years ago, but it's functional. They have the tapes organized chronologically, thematically, and by the principle subject (other than Nixon himself).

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u/bitparity Post-Roman Transformation 20d ago

The best way is to directly contact the Nixon Library directly, asking that same question.