In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. 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 summary 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 talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
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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