Article snippet: Following his firing of James Comey, on Friday morning President Trump warned the now former FBI director on Twitter that he “better hope that were are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.” When asked if Trump had recorded his conversations with the former FBI director, the president’s top spokesperson declined to comment. "The president has nothing further to add on that," Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Friday. Trump also refused to elaborate on whether there are any tape recordings: "I can't talk about that. I won't talk about that,” he said in an interview with Fox News that aired Saturday. But the White House has a history of recording, dating back to 1940. Presidents from Roosevelt to Reagan had various types of audio recording devices installed to conduct secret tapings, and it was a White House practice that was relatively unknown until Watergate. FDR was the first president known to conduct recordings in the Oval Office. In the midst of campaigning for a third term, and upset over having been misquoted, Roosevelt approved the installment of a recording machine beneath the Oval Office, The idea was suggested to him by his stenographer, according to William Doyle’s book “Inside the Oval Offices: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton.” According to the Miller Center, a policy and political history institute at the University of Virginia, the president had the recording device -- a RCA Continuous-f... Link to the full article to read more