Posted on 12/05/2003 6:23:56 AM PST by FlyLow
Three American presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones, leaving behind thousands of secretly recorded conversations. American Radio Works.com lets visitors eavesdrop on these presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history.
Hear the tapes, read background material on the historical issues, read the transcripts. The recordings of JFK, the first president to secretly tape his calls regularly, show a man of both charm and limitations. The 9,500 calls LBJ secretly taped are a revealing record of his character and presidency, from Selma to Vietnam. Nixon taped more conversations than any president in history, and his recordings show both an astute politician and an isolated man negotiating one crisis after another.
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