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then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. and all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. this is just fantastic. on a personal level. raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. this is pretty amazing. so, we said good-bye to each other 43, 44 years ago. and when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. i say jim, i mean it i ll have it in tomorrow. he says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. so it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. the other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. i don t know how many remember this. sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. and he said this is has been the most important thing that s happened in my life and i m sure it will ever happen in my life. and will happen in yours. i m thinking well i m like 21, 22 years old i hope there s something that happens. but now looking back, i ....
this is just fantastic. on a personal level. raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. this is pretty amazing. so, we said good-bye to each other 43, 44 years ago. and when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. i say jim, i mean it i ll have it in tomorrow. he says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. so it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. the other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. i don t know how many remember this. sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. and he said this is has been the most important thing that s happened in my life and i m sure it will ever happen in my life. and will happen in yours. i m thinking well i m like 21, 22 years old i hope there s something that happens. but now looking back, it becomes this thing becomes very real. one of the ways i was trying to think about it is then the truth was a solid. it was something you worked on, you cou ....
he joins former congressional staffers to talk about their work in the early to mid-70s and some of the pair lels between president richard nixon and the current trump administration. moderated by lesley stahl. this discussion is under an hour and a half. i m gordon freedman. thank you. three or four months ago maybe we should get people together i. i thought that s a good idea. i started trying to find people. it was difficult. then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. and all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. this is just fantastic. on a personal level. raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. this is pretty amazing. so, we said good-bye to each other 43, 44 years ago. and when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. i say jim, i mean it i ll have it in tomorrow. he says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. so it was just like no time has passed ....
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 walkie-talkie 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 presidents recording. so what were the reasons that he doesn t install>? back in the nixon white house, ....
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 walkie-talkie 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 presidents 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 man ....