Let me go back. Pres. Roosevelt [indiscernible] prof. Dean you get a sample there. Let me give you 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, nixon got the idea of taping from Lyndon Johnson predecessor, 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 does install . Back in the nixon white house, as we have discussed in prior lectures, there was a pretty efficient Management System, except in the instances like watergate and a few others where the Management System did not come into play. But the Management System on a
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
Supplement its watergate holdings, most recently with the generosity of the papers of love papers of legendary Washington Post editor ben bradley with research in 2017. In the intervening years, the watergate papers themselves have also been heavily consulted by our students and by historians, while collectively, the country as a whole has continued to come to terms with that National Crisis and its continuing impact on our political life today. The watergate archive continues to give up new insight into the nixon presidency, and for years to come, it will continue to ground the histories and a historically verifiable record. Tonight, we are not here to read documents, but to hear from an intimate participant in the daytoday workings of the Nixon White House. Alexander butterfield served as a deputy with then Richard Nixons inner circle and it was , he who changed history by president lging the during testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee. I believe we have a brief clip of th
Good evening. I want to welcome you to this conversation with Alexander Butterfield and bob woodward which will be conducted by my friend and colleague, director of the lbj president ial library. I am director of the center, which is pleased to be cosponsoring this Evenings Program along with the lbj library. Bob woodward, as many of you know, has a special tie to the university of texas. In 2003, he and his Washington Post colleague, Charles Bernstein placed papers at the university center. It was a historically significant acquisition, which was fittingly celebrated here, so together again this evening. Much has transpired over the following decade. The identity was made public, many hours of white house recordings have been released by the national archives, and the center continues to supplement its watergate work, most recently with the generosity of the papers of legendary Washington Post editor ben bradley with research in 2017. In the intervening years, the watergate papers the
System. In june 1973, during testimony before the watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated mr. Nexen and officials in the watergate coverup. Mr. Dean later pleaded guilty for obstruction of justice in his role in watergate and spend four months in prison. This class is one hour caret john was it lucky or inevitable . The story of the next and tapes Richard Nixon tapes has been partially told. Has taken me years to be it is taken me years to gather it. It is important to get the history straight. We are going to try to do it in a summary fashion. Before i start, i would liked to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with method firstelt, when they went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a recorder put in the oval office. Sample of a quick roosevelts taping. Let me go back. [indiscernible] all right, you get a sample there. When you haveg someone today when we have cell phones, talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so