Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Sims testified that on Oct. 1 he was asked by Bull, the President's appointments secretary, to secure a recorder "with a foot-pedal capability." Miss Woods had begun working on the June 20 tape at Camp David on Sept. 29, using a Sony 800B machine, but had complained that transcribing was difficult without a foot control. Sims testified that the Secret Service maintained a pool of four Uher 5000 recorders, but none were "in-house" when Bull asked for one. So Simms immediately purchased one for $528.80 from Fidelity Sound Co. in downtown Washington at about 12:30 that...
...experts are correct in identifying Miss Woods' Uher as the machine on which the erasure was made, the act must have been committed on or after the Oct. 1 purchase date. The period in which the erasure could have occurred apparently ended on Nov. 12. Sims' assistant, Ray Zumwalt, testified that that was the day on which he rendered...
Florida Trip. Ben-Veniste indicated his special interest in a trip that Miss Woods took to Key Biscayne with the presidential party on Oct. 4, returning to Washington four days later. She had testified that she took the Uher recorder and all the subpoenaed tapes with her. The equipment was carried by Bull, who appeared extremely nervous and forgetful when called as a witness by Ben-Veniste. He did not recall who had asked him to bring the tape along. Nor did he remember whether Miss Woods had wanted it so she could continue transcribing from it?even though, according...
...tape was placed in a safe in Miss Woods' villa on Key Biscayne and guarded by a 24-hour Secret Service detail, Bull said. Only he, the secretary and one security man knew the combination to the safe. Bull said that he thought he had removed a tape and placed it on Miss Woods' machine for her to hear. But he was not sure, and could not recall which tape it might have been...