Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other subjects suffer from a factual parallax. And there is a recollection gap in Haldeman's account of my suggestion to Nixon that he listen to his tape of his March 21, 1973, meeting with John Dean to determine the dimension of his problem with Dean. Haldeman writes: "At that point I thought Ehrlichman didn't even know about the tapes." In fact, I did not know of the taping system then. But I had been told that Nixon had taped that one meeting with Dean. Haldeman had told...
...five - minute mark, the gap narrowed. Bobby Allen (12 points) hit an 18-footer; Fine (nine assists) laid one in off the break; and Allen hit another jumper to pull Harvard to within two, 69-67, at the 3:40 mark...
...have ever known," he discovered that "it would take him ten years" to wipe out all the incriminating words. Indeed, court-appointed tape experts detected at least five, and probably nine, starts and stops in the erasure. Haldeman claims he later was "confused" when Nixon referred to the gap as "Rose's 18 minutes"-but that could easily have been the President's way of shifting blame in Haldeman's mind to Rose Mary Woods, who claimed to have accidentally erased at most five minutes of this tape...
...seven children raised in a crumbling St. Louis housing project, Spinks took his first fight lessons from local street toughs, who dubbed him "Mess-over" (because he was easy to mess over) and mugged him for small change. Punches in fights eventually cost him two front teeth, causing the gap that has become his trademark. Spinks' parents separated some 13 years ago, and his mother taught Bible classes at home while keeping the impoverished family going with welfare money and maternal grit. His father once punished Leon by suspending him from a nail and administering a beating, and regularly...
They popped through their first seven field-goal attempts and 11 of their first 13 to open up an 11-point gap before Frank McLaughlin's gang could even unholster their six-shooters...