Title: The Nixon years, 1969-1974
Description: The Nixon Years, 1969-1974 covers Richard Nixon's entire presidential term and allows scholars and researchers the opportunity to assess, from a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, Nixon's handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration's achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and resignation. Top level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers dominate this collection, which provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files from The National Archives, Kew.

Many files focus on foreign policy issues ranging from the Vietnam War and Paris Peace talks, to Nixon's China visit in 1972 and US relations with the Middle East. There is also a wealth of material on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and the environment. There is also significant coverage of Nixon's domestic policy initiatives such as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the war on cancer, and the extension of the Voting Rights Act and liberal action on Civil Rights.
Subjects: Sources, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Presidents, History, Cold War, Visits of state, Civil rights, Public health, Small business, Government policy, Public welfare, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Social conditions, Race relations, Commerce, Social life and customs, Economic conditions, Paris Conference on Vietnam (1973), Soviet Union. 1972 May 26 (SALT), Soviet Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United Nations, European Economic Community, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization), United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States, World Health Organization, Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio
Places: United States, Soviet Union, China, Great Britain, Middle East
People: Burke St. John Trend Trend Baron (1914-1987), Peter Ramsbotham Sir (1919-), Alexander Meigs Haig (1924-2010), Alec Douglas-Home Home of the Hirsel Baron (1903-1995), George Rowland Stanley Baring Cromer Earl of (1918-), George Alfred Brown George-Brown Baron (1914-1985), Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996), Walter H. Annenberg (1908-2002), Lloyd Bentsen, Willy Brandt (1913-1992), Leonid Ilʹich Brezhnev (1906-1982), McGeorge Bundy, William P. Bundy (1917-2000), Earl L. Butz (1909-2008), James Callaghan (1912-2005), Fidel Castro (1926-2016), William D. Eberle (1923-2008), John Ehrlichman, Daniel Ellsberg, Robert H. Finch (1925-), Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006), John Freeman (1915-), H. R. Haldeman (1926-1993), Clifford M. Hardin (1915-), Edward Heath, Martin Joseph Hillenbrand (1915-), Chí Minh Hồ (1890-1969), Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), Henry Kissinger (1923-), Richard G. Kleindienst (1923-), Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin (1904-1980), Melvin R. Laird, Zedong Mao (1893-1976), Duy Trinh Nguyễn, Văn Thiệu Nguyễn (1923-2001), Lon Nol, Hugh Overton, Văn Đồng Phạm (1906-2000), Elliot L. Richardson (1920-1999), Geoffrey Rippon, James R. Schlesinger, Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1926-), Maurice H. Stans (1908-1998), Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
Time periods: 20th century, 1969-1974, 1969-, 1960-1980, 1945-1970, 1961-1971, 1945-1979