The Nixon Years, 1969-1974

This collection provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files
for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Top-
level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers
dominate these papers. There is also a wealth of material
on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and
the environment. In addition, there is strong coverage of
US policy decisions by the FCO and the British embassy in
Washington; White House staff appointments and UN
discussions; views on Europe; the deployment of F-111
aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over
funding from Congress; visits to the US by Harold Wilson
and Edward Heath; and the internal situation in the US and
domestic reform. There are also detailed assessments of
all the changes brought about by the presidential election
of 1972, in which Nixon beat George McGovern by a record-
breaking margin and in every state but one, only to resign
two years later in the face of almost certain impeachment.