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Discovering the taping system, was it lucky or inevitable, is this lecture. The whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told, taking years to gather and find out what happened. Since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, its important to get that history straight. And we are going to try to do that in a very summary fashion. Id like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used when they first went to talking movies and had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to...

System, was it lucky or inevitable, is this lecture. The whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told, taking years to gather and find out what happened. Since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, its important to get that history straight. And we are going to try to do that in a very summary fashion. Id like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used when they first went to talking movies and had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick...

Choice. I it was a storytelling choice, where just bob cochran trying to create stakes. This guy has to stop it. Ment the assassination would be a national catastrophe. And the first black american in the white house. Thats where the choice came from, the choice for dramatic stakes. Last question. Its been great [inaudible] i wanted to circle back to what you referenced about the saudi ambassador saying something that around the world from in africa and thailand and singapore and egypt are viewing americans through television, and i wonder youve already discussed what you think what control do...

China and india because theyre large, big countries. But theres absolutely no intent on challenging soa. The chinese are building up forces and we have to watch that and asked for greater transparency. But theyre doing too good a job selling it to us. And so while i watch china with great interest as a professional manner, im not up to be china is going to become an enemyfg because it got nowhere been our enemy in the past and have gotten very far by not being counting the enemy. If you read the consequences as interest we need to have a clear idea of who would be taking over to power. With r...

About 40 years from now. She captured the anxiety and really the insanity of that era. And the thing thats really remarkable about elizabeth is she just never stops reporting. Her 14 books about washington rivals bob. When i first started writing now many years ago about money and politics, her work was really the seminal work in that field and we all owe her a debt of gratitude for her work. Finally, ken hughes is a recovering journalist and a researcher at the university of virginias Miller Center for president ial recordings. Really a big shoutout to the Miller Center for all the great work...