Discovering the taping system, was it lucky or inevitable, is this lecture. The whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told, taking years to gather and find out what happened. Since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, its important to get that history straight. And we are going to try to do that in a very summary fashion. Id like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used when they first went to talking movies and had a soundtrack, 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. Let me go back. [video clip] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] all right, all right, to give a sample, thats kind of amazing when you think of somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back
System, was it lucky or inevitable, is this lecture. The whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told, taking years to gather and find out what happened. Since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, its important to get that history straight. And we are going to try to do that in a very summary fashion. Id like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used when they first went to talking movies and had a soundtrack, 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. Let me go back. [video clip] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] all right, all right, to give a sample, thats kind of amazing when you think of somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Nixon got the idea of