blogs.wsj.com - 12/2/2008
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Brad Haynes reports on the latest batch of President Richard Nixon’s White House tapes.
As interest groups do what they can to influence President-elect Barack Obamas picks for a diverse cabinet, newly available archives from the Nixon Presidential Library put the politics in sharp historical relief.
The nearly 200 hours of President Richard Nixons White House tapes released today include a particularly telling conversation that took place after Nixons 1972 ...
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The “New” Richard Nixon Tapes: A Bad Reputation Deserved
The Moderate Voice —
... so you can explore some of the 60,000 new pages of Nixon material and 200 hours of tapes yourself. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal offers THIS TIDBIT of Nixon trying to create some diversity in his cabinet — although his discussion is not exactly PC. ...
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