Primary Sources: The 1970s: Watergate

"Barbara Jordan speaks to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee at the Nixon impeachment hearings on 25 July 1974."

"U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, speaking about the release of the Watergate tapes (“I am not a crook”), November 17, 1973."

This site makes freely available the best-quality digital audio and selected transcripts for people who can not go to the NARA's Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland, or to the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. It also makes "the NARA-created tape logs (summaries of conversations), time codes, the president's daily diary, as well as pertinent information about each conversation that makes your listening experience better and to make the collection more accessible."

Video of Nixon's speech on Watergate.

In addition to an overview of Watergate, this CNN site features "Sights and Sounds" videos from the hearings, resignation, and farewell. Articles from issues of Time Magazine are also available.

An exhibit provided by the Ford Library & Museum that includes documents and other materials related to Watergate.

"The Watergate Hearings Collection covers 51 days of broadcasts of the Senate Watergate hearings from May 17, 1973, to November 15, 1973, and seven sessions of the House impeachment hearings on May 9 and July 24 – 30, 1974. The hearings, recorded by the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), were broadcast each evening in full, or “gavel to gavel,” by PBS stations across the nation, so that viewers unable to watch during the day could view the complete proceedings at home. "

Provides an overview of Watergate and the key individuals involved. In addition it provides links to a variety of primary source materials, including videos, newspaper articles, documents, etc.