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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.
[[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 ROOSEVE LT IN '40 DISCLOSED|last=Bennetts|first=Leslie|date=January 14, 1982|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
Richard Nixon had a recording system installed in February 1971. A sound-activated taping system was first installed in the [[Oval Office]], including in Nixon's Oval Office desk, using [[Sony]] TC-800B open-reel tape recorders<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pimall.com/nais/pivintage/nixonrecorders.html|title=Nixon White House Tape Recorders|website=www.pimall.com|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref> to capture audio transmitted by [[Telephone tapping|telephone taps]] and concealed microphones.<ref name=nixon>{{Cite news|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1988/summer/haldeman.html|title=The Nixon White House Tapes|date=2016-08-15|newspaper=National Archives|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref> The system was subsequently expanded to include other rooms within the White House and [[Camp David]].<ref name=nixon /> The recording system was turned off on July 18, 1973, two days after it was disclosed at the [[Senate Watergate Committee]] hearings.<ref name=nixon /> Nixon's refusal of a congressional subpoena to release the tapes was included as a basis for impeaching Nixon, and led to his subsequent resignation on August 9, 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/rnimparticles.htm|title=Nixon impeachment articles|website=academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:United States history]]
[[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 ROOSEVE LT IN '40 DISCLOSED|last=Bennetts|first=Leslie|date=January 14, 1982|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
Richard Nixon had a recording system installed in February 1971. A sound-activated taping system was first installed in the [[Oval Office]], including in Nixon's Oval Office desk, using [[Sony]] TC-800B open-reel tape recorders<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pimall.com/nais/pivintage/nixonrecorders.html|title=Nixon White House Tape Recorders|website=www.pimall.com|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref> to capture audio transmitted by [[Telephone tapping|telephone taps]] and concealed microphones.<ref name=nixon>{{Cite news|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1988/summer/haldeman.html|title=The Nixon White House Tapes|date=2016-08-15|newspaper=National Archives|access-date=2016-12-30}}</ref> The system was subsequently expanded to include other rooms within the White House and [[Camp David]].<ref name=nixon /> The recording system was turned off on July 18, 1973, two days after it was disclosed at the [[Senate Watergate Committee]] hearings.<ref name=nixon /> Nixon's refusal of a congressional subpoena to release the tapes was included as a basis for impeaching Nixon, and led to his subsequent resignation on August 9, 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/rnimparticles.htm|title=Nixon impeachment articles|website=academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu|accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:United States history]]