SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-15-17
tags: Watergate, Nixon, James Comey, Trump
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5-15-17
This is why Richard Nixon taped his White House conversations
Breaking Newstags: Watergate, Nixon, James Comey, Trump
President Trump’s Friday morning tweetstorm about former FBI director James B. Comey has led to speculation that the Trump administration has taken a page from Richard Nixon’s playbook by surreptitiously recording conversations inside the White House.
As it happens, Nixon wasn’t the only president to record his conversations. Six American presidents — from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Nixon — taped at least some of their conversations. President Ronald Reagan and his successors had several meetings videotaped.
There are a number of reasons presidents might want to have their conversations recorded. Sometimes these reasons overlap.
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