The Nixon Tapes and What We've Learned From Them

Event Details

Miller Center/Virginia Festival of the Book Event

Television Broadcast:  April 19, 2015

KEN HUGHES, LUKE NICHTER, and JOHN PRADOS will discuss their research and writing based on the Nixon White House tapes. Hughes, author of Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate, is a Nixon expert in the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Re-Election. Nichter is a co-author of The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 and a history professor at Texas A&M University. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Nixon Tapes: 1973. Prados, author of White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President, is a historian and senior fellow at the National Security Archive. He has written more than 20 books on presidential power, American history, U.S. intelligence, and national security. DOUGLAS BLACKMON, host of the Miller Center’s American Forum, will moderate.