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Lectures in History

Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

At least 6 U.S. Presidents recorded conversations while in office. Hear those conversations on this C-SPAN podcast. Season 2 focuses on President Richard Nixon's secretly-recorded private telephone conversations. Through eight episodes, hear Richard Nixon talk with key aides about Watergate strategy, potential Supreme Court Nominees, and hear his reaction to the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4

Coming soon, presidential recordings, the Nixon tapes.

0:37.6

They're part private conversations.

0:39.7

Henry, tell them what you just heard from Rastow.

0:42.5

Well, Rastow called on behalf of Janssen,

0:45.4

and he said that it is Johnson's strong view that this is an attack on the whole integrity of government,

0:51.0

that if whole file cabinets can be stolen and then made

0:56.6

available to the press, you can't have order the government anymore.

1:01.8

Park deliberations.

1:03.0

My God, under the seal rule, all these, everybody, be free as a Jayburg.

1:09.4

Well, there'll be a lot of books written about this and a lot of the interview articles over the years.

1:15.1

It's just one of the times when the boat's rocking and this kind of separates the men from the boy.

1:22.6

Yeah.

1:23.1

Well, let me say that the main thing is, the main thing is it will pass.

1:32.4

And my heart goes out to those people who, with the best of intentions, are overzealous.

1:40.9

But as I'm sure you know, I'll tell you, if I could have only, if I could have spent a little more time being a politician last year,

1:44.7

and what less time being president I would have kicked their butts out, but I didn't know what they were doing. And 100% unfiltered.

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