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Government Sources by Subject: Watergate

Starting Points

Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
See the new permanent Watergate exhibit and explore the evidence, from conspiracy thinking to political espionage, to the cover-up, and more.
Nixon Whitehouse Tapes, The National Archives
Includes tapes newly digitized in November 2011.
Richard M.Nixon, The Watergate Tapes, U.C. Berkeley Library
A list of links to both audio and written versions.
The Watergate Files, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
An involving website that looks at the trial, the hearings, the tapes, and the aftermath of the Watergate affair.

Print and Microfiche Sources

Abuse of Power: the New Nixon Tapes
(print only)
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
(print only)
Papers of the Nixon White House
(microfiche only)
To Set the Record Straight: the Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
(print only)
Watergate Special Prosecution Force: Final Report
(print only)

Sound Recording

Watergate Trial Tapes
24 cassette tapes, originally recorded in the White House from March 23, 1971-April 19, 1973.

Nixon

President Nixon, with edited transcripts of Nixon White House Tape conversations, during the broadcast of his address to the Nation.

Image courtesy of The National Archives and Records Administration.

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