Ken Hughes

Ken Hughes

E-mail: kh7h@virginia.edu

Phone: 703-908-0127

Ken Hughes joined the Miller Center in 2000. He graduated from Cornell University in 1986, and worked as a reporter and anchor and as a freelance journalist. As part of the Presidential Recordings Project, Ken coordinates team of scholars reviewing and transcribing President Richard M. Nixon's White House tapes.

Selected Publications

• "Domestic Determinants of Nixon's Strategy of Détente: Vietnam," paper delivered during conference on "NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Rise of Détente," Dobbiaco, Italy, Sept. 28, 2002. Nixon tapes prove that the president timed American withdrawal from Vietnam to the 1972 election.
• "Debunking Deep Throat's Debunkers," Salon, July 1, 2002. Demonstrated errors of fact and logic in two books casting doubt on the existence of Woodward and Bernstein's most famous source and made readers laugh while doing it.
• "JFK and the Fall of Diem," Boston Globe Magazine, 1999. White House tapes revealed that JFK concealed Duong Van "Big" Minh's guilt in the murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
• "The Tapes That Destroyed Nixon," Washington Post, 1997. Oval Office recording captured an unsuccessful attempt by Nixon to persuade his chief of staff to remove the tapes from the White House and destroy them.
• "Nixon: Still the One," New York Times Magazine, 1997. Tapes proved that Nixon offered a blanket pardon to his top aides before they testified in the Senate Watergate investigation.
• "Nixon Tapes Reveal '73 Plan To Audit Congress," The Hill, 1997.
• "Absolutely No Sense of Humor," American Journalism Review, 1997. White House tapes revealed that Nixon ordered an audit of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the persecution of an INS official in a fit of rage over bad press.