They were from an earlier batch of tapes; those in "Reaching for Glory" had not been previously released.
Sure enough, though dead 16 years, Nixon is back onstage, with the release of a fresh batch of tapes from his Oval Office days.
There's very little connective tissue between the three, save for a general affinity for the outer zones of electronic music, but that's the beauty of this batch of tapes when you take them as a whole.
What I'm trying to say is that it's no accident that they picked today (aka 4/20, aka "The Weed Day") to announce their new batch of tapes.
Several bidders made off with batches of tapes.
The conversation came from the latest batch of secret tape recordings Johnson made in the White House, which form the centerpiece of a new book, "Reaching for Glory," edited by the presidential historian Michael Beschloss, and to be published on Tuesday by Simon & Schuster.
The last batch of White House tapes was released the other day, and, for the casual eavesdropper, they're still addicting.
There's no end of complaining about the press in the new batch of White House tapes released by the Nixon library.
By Paul Slansky One of the happiest things about life in America is the certainty that, every year or two, a fresh batch of Nixon tapes will be released to the public.
One of the happiest things about life in America is the certainty that, every year or two, a fresh batch of Nixon tapes will be released to the public.
But the latest Nixon racial revelation is relatively tame stuff compared to the batches of Nixon tapes the National Archives released in 2003.
