The book opens with Nixon still glowing from his 1972 re-election yet irritated by fallout from the Watergate burglary six months earlier.
The Nixon Tapes provides a never-before-seen glimpse into a flawed president's hubris, paranoia, and political genius-"essential for students of the era and fascinating for those who lived it" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In this conclusion to their two volume transcription of President Richard Nixon’s secret White House recordings, following 2014’s The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972, historians Brinkley and Nichter skillfully abridge and comment on over 3,000 hours of conversation: a priceless, if largely unreadable, historical document. All the while, the growing shadow of Watergate and Nixon's political downfall crept ever closer. This volume of The Nixon Tapes offers a selection of fascinating scenes from the period in which Nixon opened relations with China, negotiated the SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union, and won a landslide reelection victory. Now, thanks to historian Luke Nichter's massive effort to digitize and transcribe the tapes, the world can finally read an unprecedented account of one of the most important and controversial presidencies in US history.
Yet less than five percent of those conversations have ever been transcribed and published. President Nixon's voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David-3,700 hours of recordings between 19.
These are the famous-and infamous-Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Milhous Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words.
These transcripts document two years of the Richard Nixon presidency and take you directly inside the White House: "A treasure trove" ( The Boston Globe).
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