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Presidential Recordings
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 strateg...
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FEED DROP: JFK 60 Years Later Ep. 2
Join C-SPAN on a journey through the events following November 22, 1963, as we listen to the events after that fateful day in Dallas. Hear calls from...
FEED DROP: JFK 60 Years Later Ep. 1
Step back in time with C-SPAN as we dive deep into one of the most iconic and controversial events in modern history—the assassination of President Jo...
FEED DROP: March on Washington: Post Oval Office Meeting Part 1
NAACP President Roy O. Wilkins isthe first speaker captured on this recording. He gives a long report on the significance of the March on Washington f...
FEED DROP: March on Washington: Post Oval Office Meeting Part 2
In the second half of the conversation between President John F. Kenny and Civil Rights leaders, A. Phillip Randolph called for a crusade with Preside...
BONUS EPISODE: Cuban Missile Crisis 60th Anniversary
October 2022 marks 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis that rocked the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and brought the world close to nuclear war.
Ep. 8 The Fall's Gonna Kill You - President Nixon Resigns
Listen to President Richard Nixon's resignation speech from August 8th, 1974.
Plus, CBS News reports from after the "smoking gun" tape was relea...
Ep. 7 Intelligence Matters - Calls w/ the FBI & CIA Directors
Listen to phone calls between President Richard Nixon, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover & CIA Director Richard Helms.
President Nixon and Dir...
Ep. 6 The Short List - Nixon's SCOTUS Nominees
President Nixon considers nominees to fill not one but two more Supreme Court seats.
Plus, just how close did President Nixon come to nominatin...
Ep.5 The Burger Court: Chief Justice Warren Burger
Listen to conversations between President Richard Nixon and Chief Justice Warren Burger about SCOTUS nominees, the death of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov...
Ep.4 Nixon Now, More than Ever - 1972 General Election
Listen to conversations between President Richard Nixon and White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, New Y...
Ep. 3 All Politics Are Local: The Pentagon Papers & Conversations with Members of Congress
Before, during, and after Watergate, there was still a country to run. In this episode, we hear calls between the POTUS members of Congress. Topics in...
Ep. 1 Bad Moon Rising - Watergate Calls from April 1973 Part 1
Season Two begins with a sampling of calls about Watergate between President Richard Nixon and his administration from April 1973 while the investigat...
Ep. 2 What Kind of Day Has it Been? Watergate Calls from April 1973 Part 2
Throughout the month of April 1973, President Nixon speaks with his associates about Watergate and the investigation that is unfolding. By the end of...
Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon
At least 6 U.S. Presidents recorded conversations while in office. Hear those conversations on this C-SPAN podcast. Season 2 focuses on President Rich...
Ep. 10 Vietnam and the events of 1968
1968…Vietnam, Multiple Assassinations, LBJ's Decision not to run for re-election, the Chicago Democratic National Convention…and more in the last epis...
Ep. 9 - Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson…First Lady….environmentalist, and one of President Johnson's most trusted advisors. This week, conversations between Lady Bird and P...
Ep. 8 - The Voting Rights Act
This week, go behind the scenes with calls surrounding the Voting Rights Act of 1965. You'll hear from Martin Luther King Jr., Senate Leaders Mike Man...
Ep. 7- The March on Selma
Calls around the March on Selma, as President Lyndon Johnson responds to Bloody Sunday. You'll hear from Alabama Governor George Wallace, FBI Director...
Ep. 6 - Medicare & Medicaid
This week, a look at calls surrounding the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. You'll hear from President Johnson's chief aid to Congres...
Ep. 5 - Post 1964 Election
A look at calls after President Lyndon Johnson's sweeping victory in the 1964 presidential election over Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwat...
Ep. 4 - The Gulf of Tonkin
A look at the calls around the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, H.J. Res 1145 (The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution), and how the administration handled the press. Y...
Ep. 3 - The Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon Johnson's calls about pushing what would become the Civil Rights Act through Congress, its ultimate passage…and the racial violence a...
Ep. 1 What are The LBJ Tapes? with Marc Selverstone of The Miller Center at the University of Virginia
Marc Selverstone, Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia explains the background of the LBJ t...
Ep. 2 - Creation of the Warren Commission
Calls between President Lyndon Johnson & members of Congress & the administration on the establishment of The Warren Commission which would look into...
Trailer: Season 1 President Lyndon Johnson
In the ten episodes of Season 1 hear secretly recorded conversations President Lyndon Johnson made on topics including the Warren Commission, the Viet...