Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who run the Superdome are unfettered by petty considerations, and see the Dome in broader, less mundane terms. If you go on a tour of the Dome a tape broadcast over its public address system will tell you that it is "more than a building or a stadium or a hall," that it is "the depository of Louisiana's belief in itself and a budding, exhilarating, moving certainty that tomorrow can be now." Like the Seven Wonders of the World, the tape tells you, "it is a monument to man's daring imagination, ingenuity, and intelligence--awesome in size...
...occasion was the giving of a six-hour deposition by Nixon in San Clemente on July 25. This was part of a lawsuit in which he is challenging the constitutionality of a law passed last December that made his White House files, containing some 42 million documents and secret tape recordings, the property of the Federal Government. For six hours, Nixon was interrogated by ten attorneys who are contesting his suit. Among them were lawyers representing Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry Ruth, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Columnist Jack Anderson, who has been trying to obtain access...
When Anderson's lawyer, William Dobrovir, asked whether the review might take five years, Nixon responded with a sharp dig at the lawyer: "I can't tell you until I see how big the task is. Most of the tapes are not as audible* as the one you played at that cocktail party." The reference was to Dobrovir's ill-advised playing of a portion of a subpoenaed Nixon tape at a Georgetown party in December...
...Know. Nixon found ways of evading the tough questions. At one point, Dobrovir asked him to confirm, as reported on a White House transcript of a tape recording, that he had told John Dean that "nothing is privileged that involves wrongdoing." By way of an answer, Nixon countered with a question: "What is the definition of 'wrongdoing'?" Replied Dobrovir: "I am quoting your words." Nixon persisted: "I am asking you, what do you say is 'wrongdoing'? I don't know." That was a telling admission for a man who made his career as a lawyer...
...another question of audibility, Nixon denied that he had ever called Judge John Sirica a "wop." He said that what he heard himself say on tape was that Sirica was "the kind I want...