Word: dictabelts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judiciary Committee assembled all the available bits and pieces of the Watergate mosaic: previously secret grand jury testimony furnished to the committee by Judge John Sirica, memos written by President Nixon and some of his high aides, Senate Watergate Committee testimony, tape recordings from the Oval Office, a presidential Dictabelt, and notes scrawled on legal-size pads in the President's irregular hand. The Judiciary Committee formed no conclusions and drew no verdicts. In a serious effort to be fair and impartial, it simply presented all the materials it had acquired...
...White House admitted last week that a third tape was now either missing or nonexistent. This was a Dictabelt recording that Nixon had claimed he made after talking to John Dean on April 15. He had offered to make this recording available as evidence of his version of the April 15 conversation, since the White House recording of the conversation itself was "nonexistent"; a recorder, Nixon contends, had run out of tape. But now, Nixon said in a written statement, he had checked his "personal diary file" for April 15 and found some "personal notes" of the conversation with Dean...