Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such direct conclusion was explicitly drawn, of course, by the six professional sound, recording, and electronics experts who had exhaustively examined a presidential tape recording containing a mysterious 18-minute deletion of a Watergate conversation between Nixon and his intimate aide, H.R. Haldeman. It would have exceeded both their purview and their competence. But in reporting to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the conversation had been erased by pushing buttons on a tape recorder at least five?and probably nine ?times, they had found, in effect, that this destruction of evidence necessarily had to be deliberate. Until someone...
...four days of testimony in Sirica's second-floor courtroom following submission of the experts' report, the evidence increasingly constricted the period during which the taped conversation had been erased. Since the erasure apparently required the confluence of a specific tape machine and one specific tape, the suspects were also severely limited. If the White House's own records are accurate?an uncertain proposition ?only three persons are known to have had access to both the tape and the recorder in the suspect period. They are Stephen Bull, Special Assistant to the President; Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary...
Whether either subordinate would dare do such a deed without the President's knowledge seems doubtful, though not impossible. Either way, Nixon's case does not improve much. Surely neither Miss Woods nor Bull would have acted alone unless to protect the President from his words on the tape. Indeed, the theory most helpful to Nixon is that Bull might have acted to shield his old boss, Haldeman...
...panel of electronics experts, which has been examining the presidential tape recording with its now celebrated 18-minute hum, will submit a report to Federal Judge John Sirica this week. It is expected to be "conclusive" and will pinpoint the cause of the mysterious sound. The report may also identify the specific tape machine in the White House on which the noise was recorded, although the experts cannot know or speculate on who may have been operating the machine at the time. The panel has already expressed doubts in its interim report (TIME, Dec. 24) that the conversation was wiped...
...money is expected to speak for itself. Yet even this contention by Nixon was challenged last week by attorneys for Ralph Nader, who is suing the Administration for basing the support hike on political grounds. The attorneys filed a brief in a Washington federal court quoting from a subpoenaed tape of Nixon's March 23 meeting, contending that it showed that the President may have been obliquely acknowledging the donation when he told the milkmen: "I must say a lot of business men and others I get around this table, they yammer and talk a lot but they...