--- description: The last of the tapes that secretly recorded former President Richard Nixon's conversations during the Watergate scandal will be released Wednesday. The tapes, being released... title: Final Nixon Tapes To Be Released image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Final Nixon Tapes To Be Released by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Aug 21, 2013 5:35 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Aug 21, 2013 5:35 PM CUT The last of the tapes that secretly recorded former President Richard Nixon’s conversations during the Watergate scandal will be released Wednesday. The tapes, being released by the Nixon Library, cover a crucial period of the Watergate scandal, as well as Soviet peace talks, Chinese diplomacy and Vietnam POWs. They are the last recordings made in Nixon’s White House before a Senate investigative committee discovered his taping system. The recordings were made between April 9 and July 12, 1973, and are the final installment in the slow chronological release of over 3,000 hours of Nixon tapes. Final Nixon Tapes To Be Released ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7163662/final-nixon-tapes-to-be-released/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7163662/final-nixon-tapes-to-be-released/"},"headline":"Final Nixon Tapes To Be Released","datePublished":"2013-08-21T17:35:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T06:09:47.112Z","description":"The last of the tapes that secretly recorded former President Richard Nixon's conversations during the Watergate scandal will be released Wednesday. The tapes, being released...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7163662/final-nixon-tapes-to-be-released/","keywords":["Watergate"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"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/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7163662/final-nixon-tapes-to-be-released/","name":"Final Nixon Tapes To Be Released"}}]}] ```