Marc Selverstone

Marc Selverstone is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where he chairs the presidential recordings program. He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950.

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Why U.S. Presidents Stopped Secretly Taping Their Conversations

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and others in between generated thousands of hours of audio from meetings and telephone calls. Is Donald Trump reviving that practice?
- Marc Selverstone
- May 23, 2017