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Article: The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. 800 pp., $35.00 cloth; 468 pp., $16.95 paper.
In 1997, three editorial projects opened treasures for scholars and students of the American presidency: transcripts of audiotapes made in the White House thirty years ago, during the administrations of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
Tapes were, of course, instrumental in bringing the Nixon administration to an early close. That fact, plus legal barriers to taping people secretly, makes it virtually ...