Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystery of the hum may be solved, at least in part, when Judge Sirica this week gets a report on the tape from electronics and acoustical experts...
...contrary, the President at times was drawn and pale; lines of tension creased his face, and he seemed barely able to control the quaver in his voice. The source of strain was his continuing Watergate woes, particularly his staffs inability to explain how a mysterious hum obliterated 18 minutes of his conversation with former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate breakin. Even close White House aides conceded that the gap on the tape had seriously damaged his efforts to restore public confidence. Said one assistant...
Guarded by three federal marshals, they worked for two days in the laboratories of the Federal Scientific Corp. in New York City, trying to determine the source of the hum. Then they returned the tape to Sirica, who kept it locked up and closely guarded...
...papers this week on the White House role in the milk-support controversy and the President's involvement in the ITT antitrust case. Undoubtedly, Nixon also will have more to say about the tapes, but not until Sirica decides what to do about the case of the mysterious hum...
GENERAL Alexander M. Haig Jr., President Nixon's chief of staff, testified last Thursday that White House aides have considered a "Devil Theory"--an explanation for the 18-minute gap, now known as Rose Mary's boo-boo--that did not rely on poor secretarial footwork, the hum of electric appliances...