The Nixon Tapes: Power Corrupts

Rating:
Summary: The Nixon Tapes
Review: If, like me, you have been avidly awaiting the production of the Nixon Watergate tapes, so you could hear this unique piece of history for yourself, you will be very sorely disappointed. As previous reviewers have said, the big problem is that you can hardly make any of it out - nor do you generally know who is even speaking at any given time.

This volume is, sadly, a huge flop. Poor production values without an attempt to either clean up the tapes or help the listener in any other way (e.g. meaningful narration).

The first company that can, in some way, clean up these old recordings and make them audible and clear will make a killing in the market! I would certainly be happy to pay a premium to hear them. Unfortunately, the recordings on this particular volume fall a long way short of this ideal and are, in truth, probably a waste of money.

Rating:
Summary: MISUNDERSTOOD?
Review: Let's see, he prolonged uselessly the Viet Nam war leading to... how many deaths? He illegaly bombed Cambodia which disrupted their soceity to a genocidal level. He was responsible for a fraudulent national election, ruined careers, misused government agencies to harass American citizens, brought the word "..." back into White House usuage. So what don't I understand?

Rating:
Summary: The Nixon Tapes: Power Corrupts
Review: nixon has a bad rap, this is just one of the many books critisizing what he did w/ watergate. if only people could remember the good things about a president, he helped relations w/ china, and ended the vietnam war! the best foreign relations pres we ever had

Rating:
Summary: not the whole truth about nixon
Review: nixon has a bad rap, this is just one of the many books critisizing what he did w/ watergate. if only people could remember the good things about a president, he helped relations w/ china, and ended the vietnam war! the best foreign relations pres we ever had

Rating:
Summary: PRESIDENT NIXON WHITE HOUSE TAPES
Review: THE NIXON TAPES:POWER CORRUPTS IS A MUST FOR ANY STUDENT ON THE PRESIDENCY OF RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON.EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD LISTEN TO THESE PRESIDENTIAL TAPES.I THINK IT WILL GIVE EACH AMERICAN A CHANCE TO MAKE A JUDGEMENT OF PRESIDENT NIXON ON THE WATERGATE MATTER

Rating:
Summary: An amazing piece of American presidential political history.
Review: This non-fiction collection presents the Watergate tapes in their entirety for public listening, for the first time. Hear Nixon speaking in the oval office and on the phone in an unedited collection which provides four cassettes and five hours of incriminating evidence.

Rating:
Summary: The Nixon Tapes: Power Corrupts
Review: This review relates only to the audiotapes. They're great if you want to sit down and painstakingly try to figure out who's talking and what they're saying. In contrast to Michael Beschloss' wonderfully edited and audible LBJ tapes, the narrator here rarely lets you know who is talking. But more importantly, only about 10% of the conversations are discernible. You can almost never hear what Nixon is saying. They must intend for the buyer to sit down with transcripts and listen to the tapes while reading the transcripts. I don't see how else you could gain much from the tapes.

Rating:
Summary: 5 Stars for content, 2 stars for audio quality.
Review: When you can actually hear people talking it is interesting. The problem is the audio quality is so horrible 75% of the time its not worth the effort. No narration, barely any setup to the material, like 10 seconds of presentation per casette side???
However, rarely, when you are able to make out the words...its pretty amazing to hear these things.
So 5 stars for content, nothing like actual proof, its on tape. 1 star for lack of narration/setup, and audio quality on everything but the phone conversations is really poor.
The LBJ tapes I listened to were 10x better.