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Transcripts For CSPAN Q A 20121126

Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tape of john f. Kennedy, but its a jingle. Lets listen to this. When we vote this november lets all remember lets vote for kennedy make him your selection in the Senate E ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Q A 20121126

All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tape of john f. Kennedy, but its a jingle. Lets listen to this. When we vote this november lets all remember lets vote for kennedy make him your selection in the Senate Election hell do more for you and me look at kennedys ....

Republic Of , United States , Kennedy Library , H Chíinh , Wellesley College , San Francisco , South Vietnam , Vietnam General , East Germany , Herbert Hoover , Lyndon Johnson , Dwight Eisenhower , Godfrey Mchugh , John Mccomb , Ted Widmer , David Hackett , Caroline Kennedy , Tom Mcnaught , Evelyn Lincoln , George Wallace , Tom Putnam , Harry Truman , Abraham Lincoln , Roswell Kilpatrick , Ross Barnett , Ted Sorenson ,

Transcripts For CSPAN Q A 20121126

It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound very loud so. There were days i thought i cant get this done, its too hard. But over time i began to hater better. And then the telephone tapes were a big step forward. When i found those, i was very excited, because theyre high quality in every way. You talked about a dictabelt conversation he had with himself or with his secretary. Yes. This is from 1960, i assume well, i shouldnt assume anything, it was during the campaign . It was during a
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