mr. elsey's knowledge of the waning days of lyndon johnson presidency and nixon's 1968 presidential campaign but talked at length about his own white house career. this is a 15-minute portion of his interview. but in april of '42, my boss in naval intelligence was transferred to the white house, and he took me with him to a place called the map room. the map room was a small room on the ground floor of the white house which had been just a reception room. it had been converted into an intelligence and communications center where fdr and his close associates could at any hour of any day come in and get a complete briefing on the current status of the war, because the map room staff received information from the navy and war departments on a 24-hour-a-day basis. information was constantly flowing in. we also served as the secretariat for all of fdr's communications with winston churchill, uncle joe stalin of the soviet union, chiang kai-shek of china and other figures. we took wartime messages. we received the messages, took them in, make sure they were answered in due course, kept a record an

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in 2009, mr. elsey sat down for an oral history interview with the then director of the richard nixon library. the interview focused on the johnsonays of president 's presidency and also spoke at length about his own white house career. this is a 15 minute portion of the interview. 1942, my boss was transferred to the white house and meet with him to a place called the map r