Dwight D. Eisenhower - Presidential Recordings
The complete collection of Eisenhower's Presidential Recordings is available for download below. The Miller Center received the audio recordings from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library as multiple audio files. Each audio file represented a single dictabelt recording. Often a particular conversation would span multiple dictabelts. We have spliced audio files together when we could identify overlap between two audio files. We have also arranged the conversations chronologically. To access the non spliced audio files as we received them from the Eisenhower Library, click Original Audio Files.
The Eisenhower Library has created detailed descriptions of the following conversations. Click Presidential Descriptions to access a full-text searchable .pdf version of these descriptions. We have also broken the descriptions into individual descriptions for each conversation below.
Meeting with Leonard Hall, Sinclair Weeks and Robert Murray—January 4, 1955 |
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Eisenhower, Hall, Weeks and Murray discuss problems with the Civil Aeronautics Board and one of its members, Oswald Ryan. Note: Conversation continues in following recording. |
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Meeting with Sinclair Weeks and Robert Murray—January 4, 1955 |
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Eisenhower receives instructions on how to use the dictabelt machine from his secretary. Note: This conversation is brief and barely intelligble. |
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Meeting with Senator Walter George—January 7, 1955 |
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No Description Note: Conversation continues in following recording. |
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Meeting with Senator Walter George—January 7, 1955 |
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No Description |
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Meeting with Representative Frances Bolton and James C. Hagerty—January 19, 1955 |
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Eisenhower and Bolton discuss education reform and funding, and then Eisenhower and Hagerty discuss foreign affairs, specifically relations with Latin America. | |
Meeting with Roy Howard—February 24, 1955 |
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Meeting with Paul G. Hoffman—March 5, 1955 |
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Eisenhower and Hoffman discuss possible government contracts for Studebaker-Packard, Corp. Note: Conversation continues in following recording. |
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Meeting with Paul G. Hoffman—March 5, 1955 |
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Eisenhower and Hoffman discuss possible government contracts for Studebaker-Packard, Corp. |
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