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The '''White House tapes''' are audio recording made of Presidential conversations for historic or political purposes. With limited exceptions such recordings are the property of the federal government and are treated as federal records which the United States archives make available at Presidential libraries.
The '''White House tapes''' are audio recording made of Presidential conversations for historic or political purposes. With limited exceptions such recordings are the property of the federal government and are treated as federal records which the United States archives make available at Presidential libraries.
[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was the first President to record conversations in 1940.<refThe>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/14/nyregion/secret-oval-office-recordings-by-rooseve-lt-in-40-disclosed.html|title=SECRET OVAL OFFICE RECORDINGS BY ROOSEVELT IN '40 DISCLOSED|last=Bennetts|first=Leslie|date=January 14, 1982|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was the first President to record conversations in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/14/nyregion/secret-oval-office-recordings-by-rooseve-lt-in-40-disclosed.html|title=SECRET OVAL OFFICE RECORDINGS BY ROOSEVELT IN '40 DISCLOSED|last=Bennetts|first=Leslie|date=January 14, 1982|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
There is no indication that Presidents Truman, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, or George W. Bush secretly taped their meetings or conversations.
==John F. Kennedy==
==John F. Kennedy==