Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progressed, the focus in time and suspects gradually grew sharper. Ben-Veniste quizzed Louis B. Sims, chief of the technical security division of the Secret Service, which had installed and operated Nixon's secret recording system. Its existence had been publicly revealed by a former White House aide, Alexander Butterfield, on July 16 in the televised Senate Watergate hearings. He said Nixon had had the microphones installed in the summer of 1970 in his Oval Office, Executive Office Building hideaway and in the Cabinet Room to preserve a historical record. Most conversations on his business telephones also were automatically taped...
Midnight Special with Smokey Robinson, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, Eddie Kendricks, Channel...
Nixon stood on his earlier claims that he had known nothing of the wiretapping in advance, never approved clemency for the defendants, was unaware of payoffs to them and played no part in the conspiracy to conceal. Then, dramatically, a means to break the testimonial impasse was revealed: Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide (now head of the F.A.A.), told the Ervin committee that most of the President's White House meetings and telephone calls had been secretly recorded. The Senate committee and Prosecutor Cox promptly issued subpoenas for key tapes...
Died. Laurence Harvey, 45, veteran of more than 60 films, who first won fame in America as Joe Lampton, the ambitious cad in Room at the Top (1958); of cancer; in London. Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate...
...playback. But if the sound was present on the original recording, it presumably would have been detected by any of a number of White House officials who have heard some of the tapes. They include the President, Miss Woods, Haldeman, Presidential Aide Stephen Bull and former Presidential Aide Alexander Butterfield. According to Buzhardt, the discovery was made only on Nov. 14, when he and another White House counsel, Samuel Powers, were cataloguing the tapes for presentation to the court. If the sound was not introduced in the original recording of the conversation, it could have been picked up during...