(See http://lukenichter.com for more information.)Luke A. Nichter is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University – Central Texas, and a noted expert on the Nixon tapes. He is the author of Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press), which is based on multilingual archival research in six countries. His current book project is Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and the Decline of the Eastern Establishment, to be published by Yale University Press.Luke is also the co-author, with Douglas Brinkley, of the New York Times bestseller The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), with a Mandarin version to appear in the near future by SDX/Sanlian. A sequel volume, entitled The Nixon Tapes: 1973, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt during September 2015.Luke is a former founding Executive Producer of C-SPAN's American History TV (seen in 41 million homes) and his work has appeared in or has been reported on by the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and the Associated Press. His website, nixontapes.org, offers free access to all 3,000 hours of publicly released Nixon tapes as a public service.Finally, Luke is a recognized advocate for government openness, having filed more than one thousand Freedom of Information Act requests for the purpose of opening historically important records to public access. He has an ongoing petition before Judge Royce Lamberth of the District Court for the District of Columbia—In Re: Petition of Luke Nichter, Case No. Misc. 12-74—which has unsealed thousands of pages of government records in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration.