Presidential Eavesdropping

In real life; eavesdropping is a notorious violation of the Bill of Rights. But for the purpose of this collection, we will be listening in on conversations either in the office or on the phone of three presidents in a most defining decade and a half in recent history.

Between January 20, 1961 and August 9, 1974, the United States saw John F. Kennedy become the youngest elected president ushering in the New Frontier only to see it all come to an end when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon Johnson would pick up JFK's torch with his idea of Let Us Continue and bringing about what Kennedy dreamed of, but LBJ could deliver on; the Great Society which was the most sweeping domestic spending at that time since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. LBJ's domestic spending would be outdone in the 2020s with Joe Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and a pending Build Back Better Bill. Unfortunately, because of the war in Vietnam and the entrance of NY Senator Robert F. Kennedy into the Democratic Presidential Primary on March 16, 1968, Johnson would announce on March 31, 1968 that he would not seek and would not accept the nomination of the Democratic Party for another term as President. LBJ would spend the rest of his presidency working on a peace deal with North Vietnam and South Vietnam only to be torpedoed by Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the fall of 1968 to make Hubert Humphrey look weak. Johnson would have a conversation with Everett Dirksen, the Senate Minority Leader about this calling it "treason" to which Dirksen responded: "I know."

Richard Nixon won the 1968 Election by declaring that he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam War. By the spring of 1970, he would expand the war into Cambodia talking about taking out the Vietcong's privileged sanctuaries. This prompted unrest at college campuses all across the country the weekend of May 1, 1970 with the most infamous being at Kent State University where on May 4, 1970 four students were shot and killed and nine more were wounded by the Ohio National Guard.

During the 1972 Election, Nixon was anything but unbeatable, but given his paranoia he did not want to take anything for granted. On June 23, 1972, members of Nixon's CREEP broke into the Watergate Complex in the Democratic National Committee's headquarters looking for dirt on the Democrats. Nixon would end up resigning the presidency in 1974 due to his involvement of the coverup.
In this collection, you will hear conversations on such issues like Cuba, education in America, healthcare in America, voting in America, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and Watergate will be mentioned. You will hear conversations with former presidents like Herbert Hoover, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as future presidents like Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and a condolence call to Joe Biden and prominent members of Congress like Robert F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, and Bob Dole.

If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall during the height of the Cold War and a defining decade and a half during the Baby Boomer Era, this is the collection for you.