Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss Woods' story of the tape erasure is one more that is not believable. Highly capable, experienced executive secretaries and administrative assistants do not make such mistakes. By her own words, Miss Woods termed the erasure of the tape "stupid." I doubt that Miss Woods is stupid...
...first time in months, Nixon found time for minor ceremonial events. He greeted Miss National Teenager, Betty Nightingale, 17, of Fort Fairfield, Me. He welcomed the Most Rev. Jean Jadot, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., even though the delegate had arrived July 12. The President accepted from Country-Western Singer Tex Ritter a record of excerpts from Nixon speeches narrated by Ritter and titled Thank You, Mr. President. He received petitions of support signed by 46,000 people in Shreveport and Bossier City, La. At twilight Friday, Nixon, applauded by Boy Scouts and Camp Fire girls, pushed a button...
...four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying that he had re-created a loud hum on the erased tape by using Miss Woods' electric typewriter, high-intensity lamp and Uher 5000 tape recorder...
...response, an Administration spokes man said that the White House has only one Uher 5000 recorder and that only Miss Woods used it. But the Secret Ser vice has at least three of the machines that have been borrowed from time to time by members of Nixon's staff...
...court, White House Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig said that he had "heard" that "several sources" in the Administration had discussed the theory that Miss Woods could have acciden tally pressed the fast rewind pedal, which would erase the 18-minute seg ment in a few seconds. But that oper ation would have left a high-pitched whine on the tape, not the hum that is present, and would have required Miss Woods to have played the segment -as she testified she did not -before rewind ing and erasing...