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To: mistermj who wrote (63822)	8/24/2004 10:43:55 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793868

I recall - very vaguely from something I heard on C-SPAN a month or two ago - that some of the Nixon tapes are available to researchers, and some are not. The ones which are not either involve national security issues or the family has asked that the release be delayed to avoid embarassment. There are no transcripts because, due to the contentious nature of the politics involved, nobody, especially the National Archives, wants to take the political heat in making an official transcript. There is an index which generally states who is on the tape and the general topics discussed. So, there is probably an index which says that O'Neill and Nixon talked. As for bootlegging the tape, the National Archives should have records of who has accessed the tape. I suppose bootlegging the tape violates the agreement between the researcher and the National Archives, but as the Sandy Berger incident demonstrates, you can dick around with the National Archives without any penalty. And to liberals, violating agreements in the service of the "greater good" is heroism. Apparently playing one tiny snippet of a tape without the entire context is even more heroic. You should see what they do with photos of people who have become inconvenient to the Supreme Soviet.