Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haig said that he believed she was responsible for the entire gap. When he left the courtroom, he told reporters...
Higby, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Secretary Woods. She clung to her story that she may have accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape during a phone call but not the entire segment. After hinting that he was not convinced by her testimony, Sirica urged Miss Woods to "tell everything you know." She responded: "If I could offer any idea, any proof, any knowledge, of how the 18-minute gap happened, there is no one on earth who would rather...
...Sinister Force." On the stand, Haig told Sirica that at one point White House aides briefly entertained "the devil theory" to explain the gap. They wondered whether "some sinister force," an unexplained outside source of energy, had been applied to the tape. But Haig offered no suggestion as to just what he might mean by this James Bond or science-fiction scenario. He clearly continued the White House effort to put the responsibility on Rose Mary Woods...
...Haig's testimony was full of minor conflicts with what Presidential Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt had previously said, and contained frequent memory lapses remarkable in a bright West Point graduate who was noted for his organizational competence as Henry Kissinger's longtime aide. For example, he could not recall what he discussed with Nixon, Rose Mary Woods and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler during a 24-minute conference the evening of the day he told Nixon that the gap on the tape lasted for 18 minutes-just three weeks before his courtroom appearance. Often Haig fidgeted, toying with...
Calling the mysterious erasure "a source of great distress," Haig reported that government lawyers speculated that "perhaps some sinister force" had applied the other energy source and taken care of the information on that tape...