"Evelyn Lincoln told me at luncheon that all LBJ's phone talks are taken down on tape. . . . What a treasure trove for the historian! and what a threat to the rational and uninhibited conduct of government!" Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Diary entry for March 25, 1964
Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon--secretly recorded on tape just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. The Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program is a unique effort aimed at making these remarkable historical sources accessible.

We have posted a collection of transcripts of conversations involving and directly related to the long Senate career of Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy. Drawing from the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon tapes, it includes calls between the newly elected Senator and his older brother, President John F. Kennedy; calls with President Johnson during the 1964 election campaign while bedridden recovering from a broken back suffered during a plane crash; and President Nixon's efforts to spy on Kennedy in the leadup to the 1972 election. [Read more]
We have posted two newly declassified documents created by the Secret Service in late 1973 providing detailed and new information on the installation, operation, and logistics of the Nixon White House Taping system. [Read more]
The JFK Library has released new White House tapes from August 1963. The JFK Library's press release is below. [Read more]
Drawing on Nixon tapes, Professor KC Johnson of Brooklyn College has a new posting on Edward Korry, former ambassador to Chile, and his ties to the Allende coup. Read the post here: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/119111.html