Word: taping
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Fittingly, the prelude to collapse began on July 24, when three "strict constructionist" Supreme Court Justices appointed by Nixon searchingly scoured the Constitution and joined in a unanimous finding that it contained no legal basis for his withholding 64 White House tape recordings from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. The President on May 6 and 7 had listened to some of those tapes and abandoned a proposed compromise under which he would turn twelve of them over to Jaworski. He did not tell his chief Watergate lawyer James St. Clair that those tapes would destroy his professions of innocence...
...evidence.* But just two days after the Supreme Court decision, St. Clair was jolted into a full awareness of his responsibilities by Federal Judge John J. Sirica, whose judicial inquisitiveness has played a pivotal role in unraveling the Watergate deceptions. "Have you personally listened to the tapes?" Sirica asked St. Clair in court, well aware from news reports that St. Clair had not. "You mean to say the President wouldn't approve of your listening to the tapes? You mean to say you could argue this case without knowing all the background of these matters?" Visibly flustered...
That promise set the trap. Nixon insisted upon listening to each tape once more before transmitting it to the court...
...White House. "We're back in the problem area," Haldeman said early in the first meeting with Nixon that day, indicating a prior discussion. One such occasion almost certainly was on June 20, the day on which the two held an 18½-minute Watergate discussion-the tape of which was later manually erased by someone with access to the White House-held recordings...
...interests of truth and the American way, The Crimson has decided to sponsor a contest to find out what those lessons were. One obvious lesson that the commentators have ignored is that if you're going to do something crooked, don't announce it to a tape recorder. Readers are invited to draw their own morals and to submit them at 14 Plympton St. by Sunday noon. The best entries will be published in next Tuesday's paper. No prizes will be given, because no one wins nowadays...