Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a very summaried fashion today. Before i start though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used a when they first went to talky movies and they had a sound track, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample. Let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. All right. You get a sample there. Let me give you a thats kind of an amazing when you think somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the break through in that presidency of a walky talky that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor. During the transition between the two presidencies, nixon and johnson met
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Discovering the taping system, was it lucky or inevitable is what were looking at in this lecture. The nixon taping, the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. It has taken me years to gather and find out what happened. And since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think it is important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a summary fashion today. Before i start, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample oops, let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. Let me go back. [ inaudible ]. [ inaudible ]. [ inaudible ]. You get a sample there. Let me give you that is amazing. When you think he is somebody today, when we have cell phones, talking about the breakthrough in that presiden
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i m this little lieutenant colonel that he hardly recognized. so i eventually spent i won t exaggerate, at least 20 hours a week in the johnson white house, got to know everybody there. i was usually there doing some errand for the secretary. there s an awful lot of interplay between the defense department and the white house as everyone knows. so you got to understand sort of the basic and broad mechanics of the way the place operated. yes, i did, especially around the oval office. i came to know johnson a little bit and all the key people. then joe himself was picked up. johnson called mcnamara one day and said who is doing all this good work. actually hague and i were doing all the good work. he said joe califano. he said, well, i want that man over here. so joe left the defense department in about august this is 65 when i went with joe califano and the defense department. it was only three or four months later that joe went over and became i think the domestic cz