Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Montgomery's finally released an album after years of perfecting his band's performance, and if it's half as exciting as his live appearances, his debut should sell a million among local fans alone. Skinny James is a sizzling blues harpist; he also sings better than Paul Butterfield, and is a master of the extended rap-turns-into-a-song type of blues. The great misfortune of his national tours will be the time they usurp from his appearances in Boston. If you want good blues this weekend, the drive to Boston College is worth the trouble...
...reels of tape is labeled by date. The ones that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the Ervin committee are so vigorously seeking are not kept apart from the rest. Most of the tapes have never been replayed, so far as anyone knows, although former White House Aide Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that he occasionally borrowed some of the tapes and sampled them to make sure the system was operating properly. In addition, both the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman have said that they have listened to some of the taped Watergate conversations...
...Butterfield also testified that as the pile of tapes began to grow, he urged the White House to set up a crew of stenographers to transcribe the material, but this was never done. Since the tapes were supposedly made for "historical purposes," the President apparently hopes to leave that mountainous job to a still to be created Nixon library, which will have all the time in the world to sort out the raw materials of the Nixon...
ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD vaulted to national prominence last week when he revealed another White House secret. This secret--the fact that Nixon had all of his conversations surreptitiously taped--might never have come out had it not been for a particular question by the investigating staff of the Watergate committee...
...Ervin committee first asked for presidential documents four weeks ago, and Nixon refused them. Then came White House Aide Alexander Butterfield's revelation that Nixon had equipped the White House with a taping system to record the President's telephone conversations and meetings. Some of those recordings, especially those involving John Ehrlichman, John Dean and John Mitchell, would clearly contain important Watergate evidence. The committee therefore sent yet another request to the President, asking him to yield not only written documents but the "relevant" tapes as well...