Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving his version of the evidence that had been presented over the past six weeks by Doar and the committee's Republican counsel, Albert Jenner. St. Clair concentrated on Nixon's role in the payment of hush money to Hunt, a topic that the edited White House tape transcripts show was discussed at length by Nixon in a meeting with Dean and Haldeman on March 21,1973. St. Clair contends that Nixon's possible impeachment hangs almost solely on whether he approved such a payment at that meeting. St. Clair's witnesses apparently all could testify...
...months of rumor. The transcripts of Nixon's conversations with his aides, as released by the White House, were ostensibly a full and accurate account intended to set the record straight on many disputed points. But when the House Judiciary Committee began comparing the written version with the actual tape recordings from which they were drawn, discrepancies arose. The L.A. Times?taking advantage of another leak?recently reported new evidence that the texts as edited by the White House were misleading in some important respects...
...partly agree" that "newspapers are not careful about getting their facts straight." While half of those questioned said newspapers do a good job in presenting both sides of controversial questions, 48% rated dailies as "poor" or "only fair." A TIME/Yankelovich survey taken in May, just after Nixon released his tape transcripts, found that the public considers the press less fair to the President than Congress and the courts have been. Mervin Field's California Poll took a sampling the week before and found that the number of people who think Watergate coverage excessive has grown in seven months from...
...figure in this shifting Republican sentiment is Arizona's John Rhodes, the party's respected House leader. Critical of the White House tape transcripts, he had suggested that the President might consider resignation-and was stung by irate letters from party hardliners. Since then, Rhodes has been meeting with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. "We give them the benefit of our advice, and we're briefed by them," he says. In fact, he is highly influential...
Anyone trying to convert the bases to civilian use must plow through a jungle of red tape. The Federal Government retains ownership of the base land and buildings until somebody else takes them over, and it reserves the right to determine the "best use" of them-a decision in which as many as eight federal agencies may get involved. Under some circumstances, the Federal Government will turn over base property free for use as parklands or airports. But if a state, local community or private company wants to use part of a base for industrial purposes, it must...