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The article reports on the tape-recorded message of Patricia Hearst who was abducted by the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in Berkeley, California. Accordingly, the Hearst family and the Hearst Foundation had given two million dollars worth of food to the needy in the San Francisco Bay area as part of the ransom demanded by the SLA. The SLA announced that the time and place for Hearst's release would be revealed in the next few days. However, the recorded message of the kidnapped Hearst had stated her decision to forsake her millionaire parents to join her SLA kidnappers.

This article discusses the two hundred hours of audio tapes and 90,000 pages of documents released by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in December, 2008. Particular focus is given to a recorded conversation between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and national-security adviser Henry Kissinger on misleading the American public about the Vietnam War and one between Nixon aides on how to manipulate public opinion polls.

The article reports on the 198 hours tape recordings from the Nixon White House released by the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. It mentions that the tapes were the 12th set of Nixon White House recordings since 1980 that is recorded between November and December 1972. It says that the recordings feature 1,398 conversations about the 1972 presidential and congressional elections, reorganization of the executive branch, and the decision to bomb North Vietnam.

Focuses on the controversy surrounding secret tape recordings in which former San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors head Harvey Milk named the people he did and did not want to succeed him as supervisor. Individuals under the yes and no lists; Effect of releasing the tapes to destroy Milk's image; Contenders for Milk's position.