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News. Aljazeera launches today. The prospects and the challenges ahead. The Supreme Courts rulings on samesex marriage set reverberations across the country. We look at how states are grappling with the landmark decision. It mate be august but at the white house today, football was in the air, 40 years late. Im proud to welcome the only undefeated, untied team in nfl history to the white house for the first time. Give it up for the 1972 Miami Dolphins and Health Officials say 300,000 americans contract lyme disease each year, 10 times more than previously thought. We explore what is behind the...

News. Aljazeera launches today. The prospects and the challenges ahead. The Supreme Courts rulings on samesex marriage set reverberations across the country. We look at how states are grappling with the landmark decision. It mate be august but at the white house today, football was in the air, 40 years late. Im proud to welcome the only undefeated, untied team in nfl history to the white house for the first time. Give it up for the 1972 Miami Dolphins and Health Officials say 300,000 americans contract lyme disease each year, 10 times more than previously thought. We explore what is behind the...

Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick on...

All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tap...

It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound very loud so. There were days i thought i cant get this done, its too hard. But over time i began to...