On, Nixon and John Dean worry about the money laundering of funds coming from Mexico and the consequences of posting an operative in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts to investigate Senator Ted Kennedy.

On, Nixon observed that a cover-up of the Watergate Scandal is the best strategy, and blame the whole fiasco on former attorney general John Mitchell.

Nixon’s threat to send a “division” of tanks to kill Native Americans at the Wounded Knee standoff.how Nixon and Kissinger anticipated the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East.

how Nixon and Kissinger knew privately that the January 1973 Vietnam peace agreement would not hold, even as the ink was still drying.

Billy Graham calling Nixon about Vietnam and noting 'I'm putting all the blame of this whole thing on Kennedy.' Brinkley and Nichter offer an intimate, fascinating, strange, and essential primary source of the inner workings of the Nixon Presidency.Now, with a concluding volume to cover the final year of the Nixon taping system, Brinkley and Nichter tell the rest of the story - once again with revelations on every page, including: Other noteworthy figures appear, like Rev. They don't like America,' there is both insight and eyebrow-raising commentary.

Brinkley and Nichter’s “episode” summaries lay out the scenes as such: 'Nixon and Kissinger continued to read the political tea leaves as they considered their approaches to talks with the Soviet Union.' From masterful dealings with the Chinese to Nixon’s petty insults of Indira Gandhi or Kissinger’s remarks about how American intellectuals 'don't mind losing.

The recordings are not limited to Watergate and scandal, but present a broader portrait of Nixon as strategist, diplomat, and president at the height of his powers. This volume from acclaimed historian Brinkley (Cronkite) and Nixon tape-specialist Nichter is a selection of those recordings from 1971 to February 1973. Nixon initially declined, but in February 1971 changed his mind, installing recording devices throughout the White House which activated when someone began speaking. When he was departing office, President Lyndon Johnson suggested to incoming President Richard Nixon that he consider secretly taping conversations within the White House, a presidential practice since F.D.R.

The Nixon Tapes by Douglas Brinkley