Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points left in doubt by its closed-door staff briefings on the evidence, the committee also voted to hear Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, who has pleaded guilty to illegal campaign fund-raising activities; Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's criminal division; and Alexander Butterfield, a former Nixon aide and now the Federal Aviation Administration chief, who first revealed the existence of Nixon's secret taping system. St. Clair will be able to question the witnesses who testify...
...explained only by the hubris of the presidency, his absolute confidence that the tapes belonged to him and could never be wrested from him. The existence of the recorders was originally known only to a few Secret Service technicians and three trusted aides: Haldeman, Lawrence Higby and Alexander Butterfield. It was Butterfield who startlingly revealed the system in response to a throwaway question from a Senate Watergate-committee staff counsel on July 13. Even then the President must undoubtedly have felt that he could still protect the tapes with his claims of Executive privilege. Indeed, there had been discussions among...
Again common sense asks why, once the Watergate investigation began, Nixon did not destroy all of those tapes that even he concedes could be interpreted differently from the way he prefers? This could easily have been done before Butterfield revealed their existence-or even after, up until the time some were subpoenaed. Nixon was certainly under no legal obligation to keep them before they became sought-after evidence. It would have been embarrassing, of course-but not criminal-to have destroyed them in this interval...
...critics, the incident seems characteristic of the way the FAA operates. The National Transportation Safety Board says that only about half the design changes it recommends ever become airworthiness directives. Critics complain that the FAA worries too much about the impact of its actions on industry profits. But Alexander Butterfield, the FAA administrator, has lately won praise for putting more backbone into the agency...
...Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor, at 8 p.m. and Murder at the Gallop at 10, Friday and Saturday, March...