Links to Learning

Many of the websites listed below have researched Nixon Library collections to develop their product.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, Department of Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara

Types of Materials: Document sets, audio, video, data, and links

The site contains historical information and data relating to Presidential elections, national political parties, Presidential popularity, growth of the executive branch, and relations with Congress. The site also makes available primary source materials, including the Public Papers of the President and Presidential Inaugural Addresses, as well as audiovisual material, such as the television broadcast of Nixon's resignation announcement and audio of his address to the nation announcing the conclusion of an agreement ending the Vietnam War.

http://www.field-guides.com/tours/ss/prez/_tourlaunch1.htm
Michael Hutchison

Types of Materials: Essays, links, games and quizzes, bios, audio, video, photos

Using Tramline TourMaker software, Hutchison put together an annotated tour of fourteen sites that examine both the Presidency and the men who have been President. Some of the "tour stops" cover Presidential rankings, elections, polling, political parties, the Electoral College, and the League of Women Voters.

http://www.americanpresident.org
University of Virginia, Miller Center of Public Affairs with additional support provided by New York Life and Picture History

Types of Materials: Essays, multimedia clips, and links

This non-partisan resource contains information on the history of the Presidency including the President's Cabinet, staff, key events, and biographies of the First Ladies and the Presidents. The other section, Presidency in Action, has information on domestic and economic policies, legislative affairs, national security, Presidential politics, and the administration of the government and the White House.

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/themes/default.stm
British Broadcasting Corporation

Types of Materials: Newspaper articles, video, audio, timeline

One can browse by theme or year, go to a specific day, or search. Includes topics such as "Day Nixon Resigned," "Nixon Takes Rap for Watergate," "Kennedy-Nixon Debates," "Khrushchev-Nixon's War of Words," "Nixon's Historic Visit to China," and "Millions March in Vietnam Protests."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/index.html
Public Broadcasting System

Types of Materials: Essays, video, audio, trivia game, interactive map, timeline, and teacher's guide

Part of PBS's American Experience series, this website is a companion to the film. The site contains essays on Nixon's historic visit to China, as well as a timeline of U.S.-China relations from 1945 to 1979, an interactive map showing the President's trip schedule, and an interview with Henry Kissinger.

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
American Museum of the Moving Image

Types of Materials: video, essays, and lesson plans

This online exhibition presents more than 250 television commercials from every election year beginning in 1952, when the first campaign ads aired, to ads from the 2004 campaign. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by both year and theme. For the 1968 election, for example, the site features commercials for Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace.

http://americanarchive.org/exhibits/watergate/
A collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH consists of digitization of all 51 days of the May 17 to November 15, 1973 Watergate hearings recorded by and aired on public television. The hearings were recorded as unprecedented "gavel to gavel" coverage. The videotapes donated by noncommercial television station WETA Washington have been digitized and made available as part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Types of Materials: Video, transcript links, resource links

The site is a searchable archive of politically significant video materials related to the Watergate investigation and impeachment hearings. Links to transcripts are available and there is a searchable PDF file of all video segments.

http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/nixon/index.html
University of Georgia Libraries: Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection

Types of Materials: Video, transcripts, quiz

In 1983, Frank Gannon, a former employee and trusted friend of Nixon, interviewed the former President over a period of seven months. Clips of the videotaped interviews are available on the website, and transcripts for all of the sessions are online. The site also includes a brief bibliography, partial indices to the interviews, and an online quiz.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
George Washington University

Typess of Materials: Primary source documents and essays

The National Security Archive is a non-governmental research institute and library, focusing on international affairs. Numerous documents relating to events during the Nixon Administration are available online, including, but not limited to the following topics:
- Kissinger Telcons
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/index.htm
- The October War and U. S. Policy
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/index.htm
- Nixon on Chile Intervention
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/index.htm
- The Nixon Tapes: Secret Recordings from the Nixon White House on Luis Echeverría and Much Much More
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB95/
- Operation Intercept: Nixon, Mexico and the perils of unilateralism
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB86/
- Nixon: "Brazil Helped Rig the Uruguayan Elections," 1971
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB71/
- Nixon's Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test, October 1969
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB81/index.htm
- Nixon's Trip to China
  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB106/index.htm

http://www.claytwhitehead.com/
Whitehead Family Trust

Types of Materials:Documents, photographs, articles

Clay T. Whithead served as the Director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy under President Nixon. The collection--a digitized copy of his papers held at the Library of Congress--documents Whitehead's academic studies and his career working in the White House for the Nixon Administration as a Special Assistant to the President and as the Director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy; as a businessman with telecommunications companies including Hughes Communications, SES Astra, and Alpha Lyracom; and as a professor at George Mason University.

http://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/atkins.html
George Mason University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives

Types of Materials: Photographs

Oliver "Ollie" Atkins was a magazine and White House photographer from the 1940s through the 1970s and was President Nixon's chief White House photographer. This website provides a representative selection of Atkins' work, including images of Nixon and the First Family, Nixon in China, and Nixon with various celebrities who visited the White House.

Additional Atkins photographs, documenting President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 Campaign are available through the George Mason Archival Repository Service.

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/photojournalism/index.php
University of Texas at Austin

Types of Materials: photographs, video, lesson plans

Using fifteen photographs each of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, this website examines the relationship between jounalism, photography, and the office of the President. Featured photojournalists include Dirck Halstead, Diana Walker, Wally McNamee, and David Hume Kennerly.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amerpres/
Public Broadcasting System

Types of Materials: Video clip, bibliography, primary source

Episode 9 of the PBS series "The American President" discusses Nixon's attempt to expand Presidential power. Website contains information for ordering the videotape, video clip, brief bibliography, Nixon's resignation letter, and a short introduction.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html
Library of Congress resource guide

Types of Materials: Documents, photographs, essays, video

A collection of approximately four hundred items or two thousand digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of Presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music. Site includes information on the inaugurations of Richard Nixon in 1969 and 1973.

Published by the Office of the Federal Register, NARA

Types of Materials: Presidential messages and statements, including speeches, White House news releases, and press conference remarks
- The complete collection can be found at any Federal Depository Library
- Search the Public Papers: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
- Volumes of the Public Papers of the Presidents currently in print are available for purchase from the Government Printing Office's Superintendent of Documents

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/
American Public Media - Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis, American RadioWorks

Types of Materials: Essays, transcripts, audio

In this site, American RadioWorks, the national documentary unit of Minnesota Public Radio, provides contextual information about the secretly-taped telephone conversations of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon as well as transcripts and excerpts from select conversations.

http://www.whitehousetapes.org/
University of Virginia, Miller Center of Public Affairs, Presidential Recordings Program

Types of Materials: Audio, video, essays, news archives, photographs

Listen to secretly recorded tapes from Presidents Roosevelt through Nixon. Experience a 30th anniversary online exhibit of President Nixon's last three days in office, including Nixon's resignation speech, a photograph album, and President Ford's pardon of Nixon. The site also presents a bibliography. http://millercenter.org/scripps/onlinereference/bibliographies/nixon.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?subcategory=30
Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University

Types of Materials: Transcripts of documents

Site includes six transcripts of: Nixon's 1952 "Checkers" speech in Los Angeles; the 1959 debate between Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; a letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu, January 5, 1973; Nixon's statement announcing an agreement had been reached to end the Vietnam War; excerpts from the Paris Accords; and excerpts from the decision in United States v. Nixon (1974).

http://foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp
United States Department of State

Types of Materials: Documents

Includes transcripts of telephone conversations of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (September 1973 to December 1976). The collection contains the transcripts of conversations between: Dr. Kissinger and former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, leaders in government and business, members of the press, foreign ambassadors, and prominent members of the national and international communities. The transcripts include records of Dr. Kissinger's role in the Middle East peace process, shuttle diplomacy after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Cyprus crisis of 1974, U.S.-Soviet Union relations, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) negotiations, and actions in negotiating a Vietnamese peace treaty.

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu (May require user registration)
Vanderbilt University

Types of Materials: searchable database to abstracts of broadcasts of evening television news programs.

"The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968." This site's search engine can be used to locate recorded content also available from the Nixon Library, in the videotaped Weekly News Summaries contained in the White House Communications Agency Videotape Collection at the Nixon Library.

https://lib.msu.edu/vvl/presidents/nixon/
Michigan State University G. Robert Vincent Voice Library

Types of Materials: audio

The Vincent Voice Library is a collection of primary source sound material, found mainly in speech, interview, lecture, and performance formats. The finding aid describes 69 audio files with words either about or spoken by Richard Nixon. The audio for 42 of those 69 is available online, and the majority of these files are recordings of Nixon's speeches during his Presidency. The site, for example, includes recordings of Nixon accepting the presidential nomination at the 1972 Republican National Convention, of Nixon's address to the nation regarding troop withdrawals from Vietnam, and of Nixon's announcement of his resignation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/index.html
Washington Post

Types of Materials: Washington Post articles, video, audio, timeline, key players, photos and cartoons, documents, and interactive quiz

The Watergate scandal resulted in a lasting change in the dynamics of government officials, the media, and the general public. It began when five employees of the Republican National Committee to Re-elect the President were arrested breaking into the offices of Democratic National Committee headquarters. Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein became famous for their investigative articles of the cover-up. Richard Nixon directed a cover-up resulting in his indictment on charges of obstruction of justice and abuse of governmental powers and led to his eventual resignation of the Presidency. Forty administration officials, campaign officials, and campaign contributors were indicted.

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/index.html
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, Office of Presidential Libraries, NARA

Kinds of Materials: On-line exhibit, documents, audio, video, and timelines

Upon Richard Nixon's resignation of the Presidency, Gerald Ford became President during the "Constitution Crisis" created by the Watergate scandal. Later he pardoned Richard Nixon. This exhibit draws on photographs, documents, and video from the holdings of the National Archives to present the story of Watergate from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in May 1972 to Ford's pardon of Nixon in September 1974.

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