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Going Public With the Nixon Tapes

40th Anniversary

Nixon’s recordings are a treasure trove of information on the President's years in the White House and how everything went so wrong. But it’s taken a long time for them to go public.

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From August 1971 until July 1973, a voice-automated recording system that was known to only a handful of people in Richard Nixon’s White House picked up virtually every word said in the Oval Office.

Ken Hughes, a researcher at the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia and...

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