Secret White House Tapes - The Miller Center ExternalBetween 1940 and 1973, six consecutive American presidents secretly taped thousands of their meeting and telephone conversations. These exchanges took place in the White House and in the Executive Office Building, at Camp David and at the LBJ Ranch, and during travel. From Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose infrequent recordings yielded only 8 hours of taped material, to Richard M. Nixon, whose voice-activated system captured 3,400 hours of discussion, the White House tapes constitute a unique and irreplaceable source for the study of U.S. history and American government. The Miller Center established the Presidential Recordings Program (PRP) in 1998 to make these once-secret White House tapes accessible to citizens, journalists, policymakers, scholars, students, teachers—indeed to all who have an interest or investment in the workings of American democracy. The Miller Center also has audio and video of presidential speeches, as well as a Presidential Oral History Program featuring interviews with former members of White House administrations.