Richard Nixon’s last meal at the White House. -via How to Eat Like the President of the United States Thanks, Smithsonian. We’re psyched for the Presidential Libraries close-up in your food history feature.
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Richard Nixon’s last meal at the White House.

-via How to Eat Like the President of the United States

Thanks, Smithsonian. We’re psyched for the Presidential Libraries close-up in your food history feature.

todaysdocument: Government Exhibit Number 60: Uher 5000 Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder This tape recorder was operated by President Richard Nixon’s White House secretary Rosemary Wood as part of the Nixon White House taping system.  Wood used this recorder to create the tape of June 20, 1970, containing the infamous “18 1/2 minute gap.” 
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Government Exhibit Number 60: Uher 5000 Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder

This tape recorder was operated by President Richard Nixon’s White House secretary Rosemary Wood as part of the Nixon White House taping system.  Wood used this recorder to create the tape of June 20, 1970, containing the infamous “18 1/2 minute gap.” 

If you opened the the New York Times this morning in 1971, you would have seen the first part of the secret ”Pentagon Papers” that the newspaper published—without authorization from the government. Today in 2011, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential Libraries will release the entire official Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force (commonly referred to as the Pentagon Papers). Although the unauthorized publication of the Papers fueled opposition to the Vietnam War and provided historians with unique insight into the U.S. policymaking apparatus, today’s release will finally provide the American public with unimpeded access to this historic text. The release will feature over 2,300 pages of previously undisclosed material not included in the Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers, the most commonly referenced compilation of the Papers. So what were the Pentagon Papers?  Read more about them here.  This post reblogged via NARA’s Prologue: Pieces of History. The Pentagon Papers are now available online, and hard copies of the papers are available for review at: John F. Kennedy Library:Boston MA www.jfklibrary.org/ Lyndon Johnson LibraryAustin, Texas www.lbjlibrary.org/ Richard Nixon LibraryYorba Linda, California www.nixonlibrary.gov/ National Archives at College ParkCollege Park, MDhttp://www.archives.gov/ Photo image above: Joint Chiefs of Staff meet at the LBJ Ranch, 12/22/1964.
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If you opened the the New York Times this morning in 1971, you would have seen the first part of the secret ”Pentagon Papers” that the newspaper published—without authorization from the government.

Today in 2011, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential Libraries will release the entire official Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force (commonly referred to as the Pentagon Papers).

Although the unauthorized publication of the Papers fueled opposition to the Vietnam War and provided historians with unique insight into the U.S. policymaking apparatus, today’s release will finally provide the American public with unimpeded access to this historic text.

The release will feature over 2,300 pages of previously undisclosed material not included in the Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers, the most commonly referenced compilation of the Papers.

So what were the Pentagon Papers? 

Read more about them here.  This post reblogged via NARA’s Prologue: Pieces of History.

The Pentagon Papers are now available online, and hard copies of the papers are available for review at:

John F. Kennedy Library:
Boston MA
www.jfklibrary.org/

Lyndon Johnson Library
Austin, Texas
www.lbjlibrary.org/

Richard Nixon Library
Yorba Linda, California
www.nixonlibrary.gov/

National Archives at College Park
College Park, MD
http://www.archives.gov/

Photo image above: Joint Chiefs of Staff meet at the LBJ Ranch, 12/22/1964.

Remembering Watergate: A Conversation

“You look back on it and it seems like the trail is obvious, but at the time, it was not clear.  The big break in the next couple of days was the simple entry in the address books that two of the burglars…”

-Bob Woodward, April 18, 2011

Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post recently sat down together at the Nixon Presidential Library to discuss their coverage of Watergate.  In a talk moderated by Nixon Library Director Timothy Naftali, they remember events that happened behind-the-scenes at the newspaper.