updated Tue. September 10, 2024
-
The New Yorker
January 20, 2018
One of its climactic scenes involves the assistant special prosecutor, Carl Feldbaum, heading to the White House to pick up Nixon's tapes. Neyfakh narrates, “Feldbaum volunteered to walk over, not thinking about the fact that it was a Saturday and he was dressed for the weekend, in pink bell-bottoms.” When he got to theÃÂ ...
Allentown Morning Call
January 20, 2018
A similar tension was manifest in the Watergate tapes case, U.S. v. Nixon, in which the U.S. Supreme Court finally recognized the executive privilege for the first time. The justices unanimously said that executive privilege was rooted in "the supremacy of each branch within its own assigned area ofÃÂ ...
iNews
January 19, 2018
Admittedly, there's not much in the way of suspense, since the outcome of the film is well known. But Spielberg holds our interest throughout with snappy, fast-paced dialogue, captivating performances and the occasional inspired directorial touch, such as using the actual Nixon tapes alongside a shot of aÃÂ ...
Beloit Daily News
January 19, 2018
Richard Nixon's language from the Watergate tapes can be summed up in two words: “expletive deleted.” No political party has exclusive claim to use of less-than-polite language. Barack Obama called his political rival Mitt Romney a “bulls---ter” in a Rolling Stone interview, but print media aren't regulatedÃÂ ...
Princeton Alumni Weekly
January 19, 2018
They made good use of the actual Nixon tapes. MFB: Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the movie unfairly demonizes Richard Nixon. You disagree? KK: She's right that Nixon was not mentioned in the Pentagon Papers at all. In fact, there were some people within the administration whoÃÂ ...
The Madera Tribune
January 18, 2018
President Richard Nixon knew how to swear, as the famous Nixon tapes revealed, and at that time, editors used the term (expletive deleted) instead of the profanity with which Nixon would burst forth, when they were publishing transcripts of the Nixon tapes. Books written about Hillary Clinton reflect herÃÂ ...
The Union Leader
January 15, 2018
(Even in the communications business, communications sometimes fail.) Trump's use of the term shouldn't surprise anyone. The guy has famously used what he calls “lockerroom talk” to describe women. Nor should anyone be surprised that such talk occurs in the White House. Do the Nixon tapes ring aÃÂ ...
The Delaware County Daily Times
January 15, 2018
Apparently these bleeding heart liberals and Democrats who complain about the words that President Trump used in a meeting have never listen to the Kennedy tapes from the White House, or the Nixon tapes, or especially the LBJ tapes. You want to hear some real bad language, listen to them people.
WWSB ABC 7
January 14, 2018
SARASOTA, Fl. (WWSB)- President Trump made headlines this week when he referred to some African nations, and Haiti as "s**tholes. But Mr. Trump is hardly alone when it comes to salty language. In 2012 Rolling Stone magazine printed a few choice words from former Chief Executives and their ViceÃÂ ...
Fast Company
January 12, 2018
Until then, the film lacked a tangible antagonist, so Spielberg raised the idea of including the infamous Nixon Tapes—a collection of audio from the president's voice-activated taping system throughout the White House. These recordings recur throughout The Post—accompanied by grainy footage shot fromÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
January 12, 2018
As noted, Nixon's tapes were full of deleted expletives. Barack Obama used a cattle-related expletive to describe Mitt Romney in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Harry Truman once questioned Gen. Douglas MacArthur's parentage in explicit terms. It is more about being careful to not needlesslyÃÂ ...
Alaska Dispatch News
January 12, 2018
Mr. Steele saw this as a crime in progress and decided he needed to report it to the F.B.I." Similar to calling for the public release of the Watergate tapes, these journalists call for Congress to release the transcripts of their firm's testimony, "so that the American people can learn the truth about our work andÃÂ ...
University of Virginia
January 11, 2018
While “The Post,” led by actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, dramatizes the high-stakes newsroom decisions preceding the publication of the leaked documents in the New York Times and, later, the Washington Post, the Nixon tapes offer extraordinary insights into the drama unfolding simultaneously inÃÂ ...
Salon
December 24, 2017
He is the author of “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate” (UVA Press) and “Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection” (UVA Press). Steven Spielberg's new movie “The Post” tells the story of the Pentagon PapersÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 7, 2017
As we later informed the Supreme Court in briefing the "Nixon tapes" case, we concluded that a president may be indicted while still in office. The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has taken a different position, first under Nixon and later under the administration of President Bill Clinton.
CNN
June 7, 2017
Washington (CNN) A former White House ethics czar and ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama said Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey's testimony is "the equivalent of the Nixon tapes." The Russia investigation: Everything you need to know. "I think it's remarkable," NormanÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
May 11, 2017
After the Nixon tapes became public, they were used as evidence and compiled into volumes of reading material and audio recordings that remain available for listening today. Imagine if the Trump tapes that exist today are someday made public! At least some of them will probably become public, used inÃÂ ...
University of Virginia
December 31, 1999
While “The Post,” led by actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, dramatizes the high-stakes newsroom decisions preceding the publication of the leaked documents in the New York Times and, later, the Washington Post, the Nixon tapes offer extraordinary insights into the drama unfolding simultaneously inÃÂ ...
NJ.com
December 6, 2017
The Nixon's tapes of this era will be Trump's tweets. -- Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 3, 2017. Still, if Trump is forced out by constitutional-but-unprecedented means, I fear the repercussions. Consider the 25th Amendment. As Ezra Klein observes — in a Vox article making the case for impeachment, ...
University of Virginia
December 6, 2017
The incident has become relevant once again following the recent guilty pleas by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, according to Miller Center scholar Ken Hughes, author of “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate.”.
Slate Magazine
November 28, 2017
The White House certainly took note of Cavett's coverage; his name surfaces on the Nixon tapes 26 times. In the first members-only bonus episode of Slow Burn, our new podcast series about Watergate, host Leon Neyfakh talks to Cavett about what it was like to live through the unfolding scandal. Neyfakh ...
Atlas Obscura
November 7, 2017
... keeping her foot on the transcription machine's pedal, which forwarded the recording. The press dubbed this unlikely move, “The Rose Mary Stretch.” Rose Mary Woods demonstrates the stretch that supposedly led to the deletion of a portion of the Watergate tapes. Ford Library Museum/Public Domain.
Sioux City Journal
October 23, 2017
Nixon's decision to turn over the Watergate tapes to U.S. District Attorney Judge John J. Sirica while denying the committee a transcript of them.
Courier Mail
October 21, 2017
Farrell's book, published almost 50 years since Nixon first won the presidency, has the benefit of a trove of new material – all of the Nixon tapes ...
Orange County Breeze
October 19, 2017
1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. 1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ...
RealClearPolitics
October 4, 2017
The Nixon tapes are a great resource for researchers, but with that access comes responsibility. One can only get a good sense of any subject ...
History News Network (HNN)
October 4, 2017
At times, Burns and Novick fall into this trap when they use short sound bites of the Nixon tapes to make – or seemingly confirm – a larger ...
OUPblog (blog)
June 29, 2017
I suspect that if Nixon's tapes had not played a starring role in his downfall, he would have retired to California as planned and wrote his ...
Press Herald
June 17, 2017
Forty-five years after Watergate, tapes have special meaning ... to work on the staff at the National Archives that processed the Nixon tapes.
The Independent
June 7, 2017
Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony is the modern equivalent of secret recordings that played a major part in leading to the ...
CNN
June 7, 2017
Washington (CNN) A former White House ethics czar and ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama said Wednesday that former ...
The Hill (blog)
May 11, 2017
The Feds have 'Trump tapes' akin to Nixon's 'Watergate tapes' .... After the Nixon tapes became public, they were used as evidence and ...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
... had in our lifetime,” and added, half-joking, that Trump's tweets are “like the Nixon tapes, if they were played every night on the CBS News.”).
The Atlantic
September 12, 2017
When audio of the Nixon tapes eventually became public in 1980—2,658 of the 3,400 hours are now accessible—Americans could hear for themselves just howÃÂ ...
Dalles Chronicle
September 2, 2017
... chief aide, H.R. Haldeman, to destroy the damaging Watergate tapes, and in retrospect, Nixon said he wished the order had been carried out.
Sandusky Register
August 16, 2017
The lecture is titled “A decade with the Nixon tapes: What we have learned and what we have yet to learn.” Wine and light hors d'oeuvres willÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee (blog)
August 10, 2017
The Watergate tapes ended up being the “smoking gun” proving Nixon's involvement in obstruction of justice. This time, any smoking gun willÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
August 10, 2017
Sirica's unorthodox judicial measures, including asking direct questions, ultimately led to the release of the Watergate tapes. “Simply statedÃÂ ...
The Outline
August 4, 2017
As Aaron Sorkin once ventriloquized through his West Wing avatar Toby “You Will Respect The Office God Damn It” Zeigler, the Nixon tapesÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
July 30, 2017
If you listen to the Nixon Watergate tapes, the secret tapes, and you hear Nixon ramble, it sounds like Donald Trump's tweets," Brinkley said.
NBC Connecticut
July 28, 2017
As Rolling Stone recalled in a round-up of presidential profanity in 2012, Richard Nixon and the Watergate tapes put the phrase “expletiveÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
July 13, 2017
The [Watergate] tapes unmasked Nixon not as the take-charge boss of a criminal conspiracy but rather as an aging and confused politician lostÃÂ ...
OUPblog (blog)
June 29, 2017
I suspect that if Nixon's tapes had not played a starring role in his downfall, he would have retired to California as planned and wrote hisÃÂ ...
Press Herald
June 17, 2017
Forty-five years after Watergate, tapes have special meaning ... to work on the staff at the National Archives that processed the Nixon tapes.
ABC News
June 14, 2017
When the existence of the Watergate tapes became public during the investigations into the 1970's scandal, one of the most memorableÃÂ ...
The Independent
June 7, 2017
Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony is the modern equivalent of secret recordings that played a major part in leading to theÃÂ ...
Newser
June 7, 2017
On Thursday, James Comey is making his first public comments since being fired by President Trump and, according to his prepared remarks,ÃÂ ...
CNN
June 7, 2017
Washington (CNN) A former White House ethics czar and ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama said Wednesday that formerÃÂ ...
The Hill
May 17, 2017
Comey's notes — the modern equivalent of Nixon's tapes, Congress will get them. Comey will testify. Whether Trump holds the White HouseÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2017
“When the Nixon tapes became public, what shocked people so much was the difference between what Nixon said in public and what NixonÃÂ ...
|
news and opinion
|
