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Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecut ....
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 ....
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 re ....
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 breakt ....