The U.S. government is opening another window into Richard Nixon's shattered presidency.
Nearly 200 hours of White House tape recordings and 90,000 pages of documents are coming out Tuesday, adding to an already imposing selection of long-secret Nixon material now in public hands.
The recordings are of Nixon's White House conversations from November 1972 to January 1973 and cover his re-election that fall, steps to bomb North Vietnam and also to make peace with it. Historians hoped for insights into the 1972 "Christmas bombing," one of the most controversial acts in a divisive war and the most concentrated air attack of the conflict.
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