The White House tapes
Subtitle: eavesdropping on the President
By: [compiled, with commentary by] John Prados.
Contributors: Prados, John.
Publisher: The New Press; Distributed by W. W. Norton
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.); Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Audiotapes; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: Contains complete transcripts of recorded phone conversations by presidents as they shaped historic events of the 20th century. Includes historical prefaces to each conversation offering context and identifying participants, and an extended introduction by John Prados telling the complete story of presidential recordings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-331).
Includes eight sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) of secret recordings made by eight U.S. presidents, and one sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) of a recording from the radio documentary "White House tapes: the President calling."
Table of contents: title: Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: Harry S. Truman; title: Dwight D. Eisenhower; title: John F. Kennedy; title: Lyndon B. Johnson; title: Richard M. Nixon; title: Gerald R. Ford; title: Ronald Reagan.