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The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President: A Book-and-CD Set by Franklin D Roosevelt; Harry S Truman; Dwight D Eisenhower; Sam Rayburn; John W McCormack; Matthew J Connelly; Walter F George; John Prados; Sasha Aslanian; American RadioWorks; Minnesota Public Radio; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; New Press (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Never-before-heard recordings of secretly taped oval office conversations with eight US presidents.<I>The President doesn't know the position of the administration so you can't know it.</I>—President Lyndon Johnson to Walt Rostow on Vietnam policy, March 4, 1964 Historian John Prados and The New Press have procured recordings made by eight Presidents of their oval office conversations. Never intended for public consumption, these recordings offer portraits of the nation's chief executives responding to and taking action on some of the most critical events of the late twentieth century. Including phone conversations and confidential meetings, the set offers candid, unscripted exchanges with top aides, political figures, and heads of state. One exchange constitutes the famous smoking gun tapes of the Watergate era. Another sequence has Lyndon Johnson finding out from J. Edgar Hoover about the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi just as he also learns from Robert McNamara about the breaking crisis in Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. The set includes eight digitally remastered CDs of presidential conversations and transcripts of the conversations with historical intro
- Author
- Franklin D Roosevelt; Harry S Truman; Dwight D Eisenhower; Sam Rayburn; John W McCormack; Matthew J Connelly; Walter F George; John Prados; Sasha Aslanian; American RadioWorks; Minnesota Public Radio; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; New Press (Firm)
- Publisher
- The New Press; Distributed by W. W. Norton
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781565848528
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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