Trumpgate , has the President been secretly recording his meetings ?

originally posted by: TheScale
its not my job to find every source and recording to prove the point.

You made the claim. The OP's source claims that this hasn't been a regular thing in over 40 years or since Watergate.

No president in the past 40 years has been known to regularly tape his phone calls or meetings

Source

those links show just how far back in history this has been happening.

Those links you provided, if you had bothered to read them, give the history of presidential recordings from 1940-1973. From your linked site.

Between 1940 and 1973, six consecutive American presidents secretly taped thousands of their meeting and telephone conversations.
...
Through the production of transcripts and original research, PRP eagerly shares theses invaluable materials so that the past may speak to the present with greater historical perspective.

Source

visit a few presidential libraries, search around the net for recordings. you might be surprised at what youll find. heres a newer one for you

Reagan recordings

See, there you go, a relevant link.

“Until now, taping was thought to have stopped in the Nixon era. I discovered that was not the case,” Doyle said.

Reagan did record some of his meetings.

“There is no evidence that I have seen that Reagan audiotaped any other closed-door non-public White House business,” said Doyle.

It appears you may be correct and there are some secret recordings out there. However I think the statement you made, "the entire whitehouse has been mic'd up for decades", exaggerates a bit.

originally posted by: Devino

originally posted by: TheScale
its not my job to find every source and recording to prove the point.

You made the claim. The OP's source claims that this hasn't been a regular thing in over 40 years or since Watergate.

No president in the past 40 years has been known to regularly tape his phone calls or meetings

Source

those links show just how far back in history this has been happening.

Those links you provided, if you had bothered to read them, give the history of presidential recordings from 1940-1973. From your linked site.

Between 1940 and 1973, six consecutive American presidents secretly taped thousands of their meeting and telephone conversations.
...
Through the production of transcripts and original research, PRP eagerly shares theses invaluable materials so that the past may speak to the present with greater historical perspective.

Source

visit a few presidential libraries, search around the net for recordings. you might be surprised at what youll find. heres a newer one for you

Reagan recordings

See, there you go, a relevant link.

“Until now, taping was thought to have stopped in the Nixon era. I discovered that was not the case,” Doyle said.

Reagan did record some of his meetings.

“There is no evidence that I have seen that Reagan audiotaped any other closed-door non-public White House business,” said Doyle.

It appears you may be correct and there are some secret recordings out there. However I think the statement you made, "the entire whitehouse has been mic'd up for decades", exaggerates a bit.

on the very first page theres a link from another poster that shows the recordings are still ongoing. heres the link to it
Reporter recorded in white house