This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

The Presidential Recordings Program, directed by Timothy Naftali, was established by the Miller Center in 1998 to make the secret White House recordings accessible through transcripts and historical research. These recordings constitute an extremely rich historical resource, but one that cannot be unlocked without considerable time and experience in working with the tapes. Once unlocked, the tapes can, are, and will make significant contributions to our understanding of recent political history and how the U.S. government works. To that end, the PRP brings together historians, journalists, and a talented team of student interns to work with these materials to transcribe, annotate, interpret, and share them. For more information on the PRP's book publications, click here.

The Miller Center is a nonpartisan research institute at the University of Virginia that gathers new knowledge about the American presidency and our government, shares that knowledge with scholars, officials and the public, and contributes to the contemporary debate about public policy.

We do this through six programs: The Presidential Recordings Program, the Presidential Oral History Program, AmericanPresident.org, the American Political Development Program, the Forum Program, and the Public Service Program.

The Miller Center maintains a family of websites designed for a wide range of potential users to share its large and growing collection of unique materials and to provide historical context and analysis for using those materials. Visitors are encouraged to visit AmericanPresident.org, the Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive, and AmericanPoliticalDevelopment.org.

This site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.

• Director of the Presidential Recordings Program: Timothy Naftali
• WhiteHouseTapes.org Managing Editor / Webmaster: David Coleman
• Contributing Editors: David Carter, David Coleman, Kent Germany, Ken Hughes, Guian McKee, Timothy Naftali, Marc Selverstone, and David Shreve
• Special thanks to the National Security Archive for their assistance in making Nixon chron release 2 available.
• Special thanks also to John Powers for permission to reprint extracts from "The History of Presidential Audio Recordings and the Archival Issues Surrounding Their Use" (1996).
• Digital Archivist: Michael Greco
• Server Architecture / Maintenance / IT Support : Garth Wermter and Angela Houchens
• Research assistance/Draft transcripts: Susie Dunham, Kerry O'Brien, Kate Bedingfield, John Monahan, John Mikhail, Lee Skluzak, Seth Center, Esther Brown, Robert DeRise, Jessica Ferrell.

Contact the webmaster at whitehousetapes@virginia.edu.