After 36 years, the public will get its first chance to read Richard M. Nixon’s only sworn statements about the Watergate scandal as the National Archives releases hundreds of pages of transcripts of the former president’s appearance before the Watergate grand jury. Nixon’s testimony in June 1975 – after he resigned from office and received a presidential pardon – marked the only time he was questioned under oath. The testimony has been shielded by grand jury secrecy but is being released by court order.

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DocumentCloud will be an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them to the web.

Documents will be contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists. If your organization does document-driven investigations, we’d love to have you join us. Using the DocumentCloud workspace, you can upload documents, share them with the rest of your organization and get back the full text and a PDF copy as well as access to a structured search engine and analytical tools to help you make the best use of your documents. You’ll even be able to download a lightweight javascript document viewer that will let you display documents right on your own website.

At the moment, we’re working towards an initial beta release. As we develop the DocumentCloud application, we’re packaging up the components that support it, and releasing them as open-source projects. Our releases so far include: a utility for extracting images and text from document files, an asset packager, a library of functional helpers for JavaScript and a parallel processing system.

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And not for one of the reasons I already knew to expect—that the material was classified, that the file concerned a living person, or that no file existed to begin with. Judging by the FBI's final response letter, there might have been a file on my subject, a long-deceased Mississippi lawyer name John R. Poole. But if there was, it got shredded.