When they first went to talkie movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system put in the oval office that recorded. I am going to try a very quick sample. Oops, let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. [indiscernible] prof. Dean you get a sample there. That is amazing when you think of somebody today, that we have cell phones, just talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Anyway, and got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson nixon got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson during the transition between the two presidencies. He said, i have several of the offices wired for recording, including several telephones. He said, i strongly recommend you do the same. Nixon had exactly the opposite reaction and had them all taken out. But this is the first time he had heard of president s recording. So what were the reasons that he doesnt install . Back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed i
Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a wartorn nation. Three days later, the president would fall to an assassins bullet and the promise of a gentler reconstruction would go unfulfilled. In his current work titled, lincolns last speech wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion, dr. Lewis masur performs skillful surgery on mr. Lincolns final address. He analyzes reconstruction in all of its conceptual iterations from the earliest days of the war to the end of lincolns presidency and his life. Then, in his epilogue, he cites, no less a person than Frederick Douglass stating how reconstruction would have evolved, had lincoln lived. It is a what if situation pondered by ackerman dish and medicians, but seldom in such a readerfriendly context. I was remembering when the late Professor William lee miller, who was never a fan of what ifs, talked about the time during the Civil Rights Era when a student approa