Both Dean and Haldeman have had a track record of ignoring or editing conversations on the tapes that were less than flattering to them or contradicted their narrative about Watergate.

I should have bought the digital, searchable version. About the only thing a reader gets from them is that Nixon looked down on Kissinger unless he was being useful to him personally, and Nixon posited himself in conversations like he was the great tactician and leader, almost for the microphone. The tapes had gone back to FDR and were urged upon Nixon by LBJ. President Nixon left behind a mountain of tapes that revealed secrets of the White House he perhaps never intended for public consumption. Although there’s evidence Nixon directed his “plumbers” to commit crimes and evidence he tried to cover-up his administration’s role in the Watergate break-in, no one’s ever found concrete evidence proving Nixon ordered the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate.John F. Kennedy shaking hands with Nixon before their televised debate in 1960.Nixon “was very resentful and sort of jealous of JFK for having been such a popular president,” Hughes says. “He created the ‘plumbers,’ this illegal, unconstitutional secret police organization that he ran out of the White House to counteract the imaginary conspiracy against him.”Indira Gandhi and Nixon talking at the White House, 1971.“Unlike some contemporary politicians, Nixon made a habit of hiding his prejudices from the public; but his tapes certainly capture them,” Hughes says. Interesting look behind the scenes at the terribly tumultuous Nixon presidency. It shows that Nixon was an intelligent, savvy and callous guy, who was intimately involved with foreign policy and politics. That said, the memoirs ─ if they are indeed trustworthy ─ indicate that Nixon considered deleting them in summer 1973 but … I would have loved to have heard conversations about other events of 1971 and '72, about J. Edgar Hoover, (only a brief phone call with LBJ is included) about the '72 campaign and the terrorism at the Olympics and conversations with world leaders, which are absent, (despite a photo of Nixon and Kissinger with Anwar Sadat on the cover.) He reads as a very bad actor. Why didn't he?Lyndon Johnson had used a taping system in the White House (as had Kennedy for some portions of his presidency), but where Johnson liked technology and gadgets, Nixon was a techno-phobe. Probably not of interest to many people. Since the book is basically transcripts, it helps to have more than a basic knowledge of the era. Veiled references to Watergate are all we get here. "The president also made clear that he did not want to shut the "damn" system down. This decision probably would have been reinforced by the similar dynamic that developed during Linebacker I/Pocket Money and Linebacker II in 1972.Other than that, though, I agree with the rest of your post. Usually I want to look up the discussion that led to some decision, usually in foreign policy or internal intrigue. For excellent reasons it is the scandal that defined Nixon's presidency. He wanted have a record to have a record that showed him to be the real master of foreign policy events, as he knew that there would people who would dispute that upon his Presidency ending. In fact, it is presumed by most of the world that Nixon “destroyed” what he though was the most incriminating one. "Most of it is worth destroying.

But by then, it was too late, they were subpoenaed. There is nothing like reading a history or biography book and being so completely transported to another time and place that you find...Two very smart, awful men talk and talk. When Lyndon Baines Johnson was leaving office, he suggested to incoming President Richard Nixon that he might want to tape conversations in the Oval Office in order to protect the historical record. Nixon and Kissinger discuss the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.Press J to jump to the feed. Besides, Nixon seemed quite certain – adamant — that the tapes were his personal property (which was true) and that no one could take them from him because of executive priviledge (which turned out not to be true). He ordered the taping system shut down and removed, replaced with a system of human note-takers and "color memos" that described the mood and atmosphere in particular meetings. I would've thought this had the potential to be a fascinating look at a President and the Office of the President in a very difficult time, but the transcripts of the conversations, mostly between Nixon and Kissinger, were dull beyond belief.

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