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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...

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John 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...

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Nixon 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."

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LBJ 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...

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Nixon, 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...

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Nixon 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...

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Nixon 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.

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LBJ 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...

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LBJ 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...

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LBJ, 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...

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Behind the Scenes on Election Night

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Kicking 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...

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Beating 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...

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LBJ 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...

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LBJ 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...

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Senator 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...

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President 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,...

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JFK, 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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