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Perhaps it was not a bomb, but the pin was soon pulled on a fair-sized hand grenade. Next day, reading nervously from a slip of paper, Special Presidential Counsel Fred Buzhardt told Judge John J. Sirica in a Washington federal courtroom that 18 minutes of conversation on one of those tapes was impossible to hear. It had been mysteriously obscured by an unwavering "audible tone." The President, Buzhardt conceded under questioning, had been told of this before he spoke to the Governors...
While Sirica scowled at Buzhardt and obviously struggled to conceal his irritation, the President's lawyer claimed that "the phenomena occurs during the course of the conversation-that is, not at the beginning or end"-between Nixon and his former chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on July 20, 1972. This was just three days after five men were arrested during the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters. It was also after Haldeman and another former aide, John Ehrlichman, had been briefed on the arrests by then Presidential Counsel John Dean...
Medium-High. Buzhardt could not explain how the tone had got on the tape. He said Government technicians had been told about it, had listened to it, and could not account for it either. He had even allowed one of the prosecutors, Carl Feldbaum, to hear the affected portion. Feldbaum described the noise as a "medium-high...
Dead Interval. The 55-minute talk, the White House claimed, was never recorded. Buzhardt at first said that the recording was not made because of "a malfunction or a basic inadequacy of the system." Raymond Zumwalt, a Secret Service technician who had supervised the installation of the system, then theorized that a timing device that was supposed to switch automatically from one recording machine to another when a tape ran out had failed to work...
...surprising fact that Haldeman had not reported in his Senate Watergate testimony. Haldeman has admitted listening to only two tapes (Sept. 15 and March 21), He has been subpoenaed for questioning this week in the Sirica hearings. Further confusing the matter, Senate investigators insisted that Bull told them that Buzhardt had listened to the April 15 tape in late June. Bull testified last week that he had been "educated" that Buzhardt had actually heard a March 20 recording...