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Article: The Johnson tapes: LBJ secretly recorded the private moments in an era of war and riot. An exclusive glimpse at how power really works.
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- October 13, 1997
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LBJ secretly recorded the private moments in an era of war and riot. An exclusive glimpse at how power really works.
AS LYNDON JOHNSON WAS dying of heart disease in January 1973, he reminded his personal aide, Mildred Stegall, to safeguard the cache of tape recordings of his private presidential conversations. He wanted them kept secret for at least another 50 years, and some of them, he instructed, should never be made public. Fortunately, Johnson's widow, Lady Bird, has chosen to honor a different wish of her husband's: that history be written "with the bark off." The tapes, excerpted here from 'Waking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1968-1964" (which ...