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Herbert Klein worked on every one of Richard Nixon’s election campaigns from 1946 to 1968 and was later appointed communications director of the executive branch from 1969 to 1973. He talked…

John Dean talked about the effects of the Watergate break-in scandal and why he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. He became counsel to the president in July 1970 after John Ehr…

Dwight Chapin first worked for Richard Nixon on his 1962 California gubernatorial campaign. After the 1968 presidential election, Mr. Chapin became President Nixon’s appointments secretary. …

Former Secretary of State George Shultz talked about his service in the Nixon administration as secretary of the Department of Labor (1969-70), director of the Office of Management and Budge…

Vice President Dick Cheney recalled his service in the Nixon administration under Donald Rumsfeld and then later as assistant director of the Cost of Living Council. This oral history inter…

A panel chaired by Allen Weinstein discussed the work of presidential libraries. The session “The Life Cycle of Presidential Libraries: From Processing to Declassification to Education” of t…

Dwight Chapin first worked for Richard Nixon on his 1962 California gubernatorial campaign. After the 1968 presidential election, Mr. Chapin became President Nixon’s appointments secretary. …

Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) talked about the impeachment of President Nixon from her perspective as a freshman in Congress and described the impeachment hearing process. In 1973 she became the…

The seventh in a series on presidential libraries focused on Richard M. Nixon’s life and career through rarely seen film and sound recordings, as well as letters, documents and artifacts col…

John Dean talked about the Watergate scandal, some of his early assignments as counsel to the president, how the idea for the Watergate break in came to be, and who was involved in the plann…

Former President Richard Nixon’s younger sibling, Edward, recalled Depression era family life in Southern California, his brother’s World War II service, and the political career that carrie…

Elizabeth Drew was interviewed on stage by Timothy Naftali about her book, Richard M. Nixon, published by Times Books as part of the American Presidents series. She talked about writing the …

Former President Richard Nixon’s younger sibling, Edward, talked about their extended family, President Nixon’s political opponents, his own work on the Apollo project for NASA, and a family…

Dwight Chapin first worked for Richard Nixon on his 1962 California gubernatorial campaign. After the 1968 presidential election, Mr. Chapin became President Nixon’s appointments secretary. …

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) talked about being a veteran who was a vocal opponent to the war in Vietnam during the Nixon years and his reaction to finding out that administration officials wer…

Former Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin talked about her work as a staff assistant to President Nixon from 1971 to 1973. During her time in the Nixon administration she led the effort …

In 1969, Leon Panetta began his career in the Nixon administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and then was appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights but soon …

A panel of presidential biographers discussed the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Gerald Ford, and Calvin Coolidge. They discussed how these presidents are understood in contemporary polit…

John Lehman, former National Security Council member during the Nixon administration, talked about joining the foreign policy team under Henry Kissinger as well as President Nixon’s policies…

In 1969 Jeb Magruder began working as a special assistant to President Nixon. After doing some work on the midterm elections of 1970, he became the deputy campaign director with the Committe…