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...historical value of the tapes will not be known until the actual transcripts are released. Dan H. Fenn, Jr., director of the library, said this week they would "become the primary source on how John F. Kennedy's mind worked." Neustadt said that they would serve as "appropriate supplements to documents," stressing the insight from the tone of voice used by those taped. Their value also hinges on the quality of the tapes, he added...
Some of the recordings, mostly the phone conversations, are very clear, while there is "weaker quality" in tapes of meetings, Fenn said He was not sure how they compared to the tapes President Richard M. Nixon made during his administration...
...Fenn said yesterday that work began on the tapes--consisting of 68 dictabelts--in 1976 when the library obtained them. The log, a "finder's index," was completed recently, and some transcripts will be released early this summer, he added. Some tapes, containing classified information, will have to be cleared with the State Department and may never be available in their entirety...
...Fenn also blamed "the really messy winter" for the decline. He added that last year, the library did more research business than any other presidential library in the country...
...Fenn agreed the library is difficult to get to, adding that 60 per cent of the Boston visitors come from the South Shore...