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Only about 5 percent of the nearly 3,600 hours of Nixon White House tape recordings contain references to Watergate. Two tapes proved to be particularly damaging. “The 18½ Minute Gap.”. June 20, 1972, was the first recorded conversation between Nixon and Haldeman following the Watergate arrests.
The tapes contain about 3,700 hours of conversation. Hundreds of hours are of discussions on foreign policy, including planning for the 1972 visit to China and subsequent visit to the Soviet Union. Only 200 of the 3,500 hours contain references to Watergate and less than 5% of the recorded material has been transcribed or published.
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The Watergate Trial Conversations are excerpted Nixon White House tape conversations that were played in open court in U.S. v. Mitchell, et al. and U.S. v. Connally. The segments are a portion of the approximately 60 hours of tape subpoenaed by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) .
Specific releases included in Excerpted Releases finding aids include the Watergate Trial Tapes (tapes and transcripts), Watergate Special Prosecution Force (tapes and transcripts), and Abuse of Governmental Powers (tapes and logs). NOTE: Cabinet Room declassified segments designated as excerpts.
Oct 3, 2019 · October 3, 2019 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. The Supreme Court in 1974 ordered President Richard M. Nixon, here in March 1973, to turn over tape recordings of White House conversations for the...
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The transcript also noted that the tapes contained an eighteen-and-one-half-minute gap that the White House claimed Nixon’s secretary, Rosemary Woods, had made accidentally. Subsequent analysis of the tapes suggested, although it could not be proven definitively, that the erasure had been intentional.
Nixon's secret White House tapes, uncovered in the course of the Senate Watergate hearings, revealed the truth about the Nixon presidency—and about Nixon himself. As much as Americans may have wanted to believe the president when he told them that he wasn't involved in the Watergate cover-up, the tapes proved otherwise.
