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...Nixon's voice as he summarized conversations with John Mitchell (on June 20, 1972) and John Dean (March 21, 1973) either begins or ends in midsentence. Buzhardt testified that many of Nixon's personal recordings are like that, since he does not always coordinate his hand and speech movements. Sirica ordered the technical experts to examine both tapes for tampering...
...likely. The missing words involve a conversation 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...
...Nationally known experts in their field, the six scientists had been mutually accepted by both the special prosecutors and the White House. Four had been readily proposed by both sides; each of the other two had been suggested by one party, then checked out and accepted by the other. Sirica finally appointed the panel. The fact that the six, representing various specialties bearing on the detection of tape alterations, had agreed unanimously?...
Magnetic Imprint. The first expert to explain the report in the crowded Sirica courtroom was Richard H. Bolt, chairman of Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., a Massachusetts firm employing acoustics experts. Tall, slender and professorial in manner, he ticked off his credentials, including long service as a physics professor at both M.I.T. and the University of Illinois. He noted that the panel had first assembled last Nov. 17 in Washington...
...persuasive testimony of the technicians inspired a spirited contest between two aggressive lawyers: Richard Ben-Veniste, 30, the brash assistant prosecutor who has handled much of the tapes controversy in the Sirica hearings, and James St. Clair, 53, the Boston trial lawyer who became the President's new chief counsel for all of his Watergate defense on Jan. 1. Far less defensive than his soft-spoken predecessors, Buzhardt and Leonard Garment, the poised, silver-haired St. Clair sharply challenged any effort by Ben-Veniste to get the experts to draw conclusions going beyond their carefully stated report...