--- title: Newly Released Nixon Tapes Chronicles Pain of Resignation description: Raw and candid interview footage of Richard Nixon describing his last days in office will be released in a series of YouTube videos over the course of the week, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his resignation. canonical: https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-05T12:39:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:30:11.770Z article:section: Politics og:title: Newly Released Nixon Tapes Chronicles Pain of Resignation og:description: Raw and candid interview footage of Richard Nixon describing his last days in office will be released in a series of YouTube videos over the course of the week, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his resignation. og:url: https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad16eed2d8acc34b/69869e67adae447dcb544691/2695962.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tricky Dicky og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Newly Released Nixon Tapes Chronicles Pain of Resignation twitter:description: Raw and candid interview footage of Richard Nixon describing his last days in office will be released in a series of YouTube videos over the course of the week, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his resignation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad16eed2d8acc34b/69869e67adae447dcb544691/2695962.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nixon Describes Last Days in Office in Newly Released Tapes  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 5, 2014 12:39 PM CUT  U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sits at a desk, holding papers, as he announces his resignation on television, Washington, D.C. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sits at a desk, holding papers, as he announces his resignation on television, Washington, D.C.Hulton Archive—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 5, 2014 12:39 PM CUT Raw and candid interview footage of Richard Nixon describing his last days in office was [published](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpPc8FImp3GGSG32rLu4XXec0dTtykneu "undefined") by his presidential library on Tuesday, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his resignation. The Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, along with the Richard Nixon Foundation, pulled more than 30 hours of largely unseen and forgotten footage from the University of Georgia archives, and culled the moments when Nixon describes, with startling candor, his fight to stay in office and painful decision to step down. The interviews took place 10 years after his resignation with his former White House aide Frank Gannon. The first of those interview segments was [released](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpPc8FImp3GGSG32rLu4XXec0dTtykneu "undefined") on the YouTube channel, “A President Resigns,” Tuesday, with more segments to come through Saturday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/"},"headline":"Nixon Describes Last Days in Office in Newly Released Tapes","datePublished":"2014-08-05T12:39:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:30:11.770Z","description":"Video resurfaced to commemorate 40th anniversary of 37th president's resignation","url":"https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/","keywords":["White House","Richard Nixon","resignation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad16eed2d8acc34b/69869e67adae447dcb544691/2695962.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad16eed2d8acc34b/69869e67adae447dcb544691/2695962.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tricky Dicky","caption":"Tricky Dicky","creditText":"Hulton Archive—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3082278/richard-nixon-resignation-anniversary/","name":"Nixon Describes Last Days in Office in Newly Released Tapes"}}]}] ```