Word: haldeman
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...Again, however, it is hard to imagine what Haldeman might have said that did not at least implicate Nixon in knowledge of some Haldeman misdeed, past or planned...
...between Nixon and Hal deman on June 20, 1972, just three days after the original Watergate arrests. The tape was among those subpoenaed by Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor whom Nixon fired last October. It was later turned over to Judge Sirica. Cox had drawn the "irresistible inference" that Haldeman had reported to the President that day whatever he knew about the origins of the Watergate conspiracy...
Nixon, claimed Cox, might well have advised Haldeman how to handle the cover-up of the affair in its earliest stages. Haldeman's own notes of the conversation describe it as a discussion of a "PR [public relations] offensive to top" the effects of the break-in on the 1972 presidential campaign...
Sharper Focus. Never seriously shaken in the courtroom was the implication that someone had deliberately, although crudely, manipulated Miss Woods' recorder until satisfied that the 18.5-minute Watergate segment of the Haldeman-Nixon conversation was obliterated. The multiple short erasures were amateurish: a single long erasure would be far more likely to have been interpreted as an accident. Even after making all of the short starts and stops ?apparently listening to a portion, then erasing it, then moving on to another part?a shrewder operator would have activated a final continuous sweep of the tape past the erase head...
...point was significant, since Bull had supplied recorders for listening to tapes to both the President and Haldeman. Sims said that when Nixon spent 12 hours reviewing tapes on June 4, Bull had set up five recorders for the playback?but all were Sony 800Bs. Similarly, when Haldeman listened to tapes on April 25 and 26, Bull did not withdraw a Uher from the pool, Sims said...