Nixon and the Amchitka Nuclear Test, November 1971
On November 6, 1971, the United States conducted a controversial high-yield nuclear weapons test beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska. Earlier that day the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 4–3 vote, had declined to...
View ArticleJohn F. Kennedy on Politics and Public Service
In anticipation of someday writing his memoirs, John F. Kennedy periodically dictated notes on recent developments or on other issues he might one day want to include in the book. Although he had not...
View ArticleNixon and Bob Haldeman on Donald Rumsfeld
Transcript+Audio ClipPresident Nixon and Bob Haldeman∇ discuss Donald Rumsfeld, observing admiringly that he's "tough enough" and a "ruthless little bastard."
View ArticleLBJ and Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Republican Party
Transcript+Audio ClipKing had called Johnson to discuss the voting rights bill. In the discussion, the President emphasized the importance of gaining Republican support, and then offered his assessment...
View ArticleNixon, Kissinger, and Haldeman on John Kerry
Transcript+Audio ClipIn this Oval Office discussion, Nixon and his advisers discuss recent press coverage of the anti-war group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They were particularly impressed by...
View ArticleNixon and Chuck Colson on John Kerry
Transcript+Audio ClipIn April 1971, as John Kerry led a demonstration of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Washington, DC, the Nixon White House sought to discredit him. In this conversation, Nixon...
View ArticleNixon and Haldeman on John Kerry
Transcript+Audio ClipIn this conversation, Bob Haldeman∇ updates the President on recent press coverage of pro-administration veterans countering the anti-Vietnam War protests of John F. Kerry.
View ArticleLBJ Appoints Gerald Ford to the Warren Commission
Transcript+Audio ClipOf all the congressional members on the Warren Commission, Ford∇ was the least known to President Johnson. He had been first elected to the House in 1948, the same year Johnson won...
View ArticleLBJ on Choosing a Vice President
Transcript+Audio ClipIn this July 1964 call, about 3 weeks before the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, LBJ asks Robert Wagner, a former Democratic Senator from New York, to leak to the press...
View ArticleLBJ, Nixon, and John S. McCain, Sr., Jr., and III
John S. McCain III, (1936-) currently a Republican Senator from Arizona and Republican nominee for President in the 2008 Presidential election, was a U.S. Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. In October...
View ArticleKicking Nixon Around
Transcript+Audio ClipIn this telephone call, the only two men to have ever beaten Richard Nixon∇ in elections compared notes. The call took place the day after the November 6, 1962, mid-term...
View ArticleBeating McGovern
Transcript+Audio ClipOn November 7, 1972, Richard M. Nixon won reelection in the biggest Republican presidential landslide of the Cold War, getting 60.7 percent of the vote compared to Democrat George...
View ArticleLBJ on Ted Sorensen
Transcript+Audio ClipLate in the evening, the President recorded a lengthy call of over 22 minutes with his confidants on the Bobby Baker scandal, in which an insurance salesmen had testified that he...
View ArticleLBJ and Hubert Humphrey on the Democratic Party
Transcript+Audio ClipSix hours earlier, Johnson had met with Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey, a man widely perceived as a front-runner for the vice-presidential nomination who had emerged as the...
View ArticleSenator Edward Kennedy and the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon White House Tapes
We have posted a collection of transcripts of conversations involving and directly related to the long Senate career of Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy. Drawing from the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon tapes, it...
View ArticlePresident Nixon and Bob Haldeman on Fred Malek
Transcript+Audio ClipIn June of 1971, unemployment dropped sharply from 6.2 to 5.6 percent, excellent political news for the Nixon administration. But the president was angered when Howard Goldstein,...
View ArticleJFK, LBJ, & the Midterm Elections of 1962 and 1966
Conversations from the Kennedy & Johnson tapes related to the 1962 & 1966 midterm elections We've compiled some new transcripts from the 1962 and 1966 mid-term elections.read more
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