All Posts Tagged With: "Smoking Gun tape"

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Doc of the Day: Richard Nixon's Smoking Gun Tape

On June 23, 1972, the “Smoking Gun Tape” of President Richard Nixon was recorded in the Oval Office at the White House. A few days earlier, on June 17, 1972, five men employed by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) had been arrested at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in [...]

23Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
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In the News: Additional Nixon documents and tapes released

On December 2, the National Archives and the Nixon Presidential Library will be releasing an additional 200 hours of White House tape recordings and 90,000 pages of documents from Richard Nixon’s administration. The recordings, which represent the 12th such release since 1980, cover the period from November 1972 to January 1973. Among the subjects discussed [...]

2Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued