Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court, after hearing two hours of oral arguments, will decide whether the President must release 64 White House tape recordings (see story next page). The court's decision could come as early as this week, but might drag on for several weeks...
...case called The United States of America v. Richard Nixon raises an ostensibly simple question: Does Federal Judge John Sirica have the right to review 64 still-secret White House tape recordings for possible use in the Watergate trial of six former Nixon aides? In fact, the issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court begins final deliberations this week is far more complex and far reaching. The ultimate ruling-and how Nixon responds to it-may vitally affect the impeachment proceedings and conceivably could alter the constitutional relationship between the Judicial and Executive branches of government...
...White House tape transcripts would show the Oval Of ice's private preoccupation with heading off press disclosures and attempting to obtain favorable coverage. On Sept. 15, 1972, Nixon, John Dean and H.R. Haldeman discussed retaliating against the Post, perhaps by not renewing the company's broadcasting licenses. Said Nixon: "The Post is going to have damnable, damnable problems out of this one." (This passage was not released by the White House, but it turned up in a fuller transcript leaked by sources on the Judiciary Committee.) On Feb. 28 Nixon mentioned the pressure that Charles Colson had attempted...
...completely clear how much information would eventually have come out through official channels in the absence of journalistic pressure. Certainly the initial prosecution, resulting in the indictment of only the five burglars plus E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, was limited to the point of farce. The tape transcripts show that the White House hoped these indictments would defuse any accusations of a coverup. Now a total of 18 important participants in the scandals have either pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries. Three of these men are now being tried on additional charges while seven others who maintain...
...requires self-restraint, and during Watergate-an exceptional national crisis-some of that restraint has disappeared. Against this must be poised the fact that from the beginning, the Administration had conducted a massive campaign of deception to hide its actions and defame the press. It is clear from the tape transcripts that the President himself withheld evidence from the public. It has long been clear that his principal aides lied and lied again while accusing the press itself of lying...