As in the last volume of Johnson tapes ("Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964"), the reader wishes that Mr. Beschloss had used his intimate knowledge of the president to give this book an introduction to situate the events in these pages in a larger historical framework.
The MicroMV cassette, at 1.8 by 1.2 by 0.3 inches, occupies one-third the volume of MiniDV tapes.
It was set up to prepare large volumes of punched tape for computer operators.
It was first created by word of mouth — from the demons who started the cult of Dead tape trading in the early '70s — and later by fanzines and books like "The Deadhead's Taping Compendium," three volumes of concert-tape reviews and essays on minutiae.
Like the previous volume of Johnson White House tapes, "Reaching for Glory" shows him in a full Shakespearean panoply of moods.
The complete series was first released in the USA on eleven volumes of VHS tapes in 1989.
Although magnetic tape unit volumes have stagnant or in a slow decline the overall volume of information stored on tape has been increasing.
By adding a precise volume of ink into each tape "well" and then heating the wells -- either to relatively low temperature to simply evaporate the water or to higher temperatures to begin melting the structures together -- he created a variety of films to test.
The second volume of Johnson's White House tapes, covering a pivotal year of his presidency in which he pushed his Great Society programs through Congress and plunged America into Vietnam, reveals L.B.J. in full throat, bullying and cajoling, lobbying and jawboning, whining and strategizing.
Thanks to his penchant for recording his personal conversations and his family's generous wish to preserve the historical record, his tour-de-force display of political skill, ruthlessness and paranoia can now be observed in "Reaching for Glory," the second volume of Johnson's White House tapes, edited by the historian Michael Beschloss.
With $10 worth of tape, a customer could have a 10-volume collection of personally selected items; and if he tired of them, he could simply erase the tape and have a new set of books flashed to him from the master tapes in the central library.
