Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussion turned to the White House claims that some of Nixon's court-demanded tape recordings were "nonexistent" or of poor quality. The President quickly assured his listeners that all seven of the existing requested tapes were fully "audible...
Dean, in turn, had already talked at length to G. Gordon Liddy, one of the leaders of the Watergate burglars and counsel at the time for Nixon's reelection finance committee. Fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had sought this tape because, he had advised the court, "this was the first opportunity for full discussion of how to handle the Watergate incident. The inference that they [Ehrlichman and Haldeman] reported [to Nixon] on Watergate and may well have received instructions is almost irresistible...
Medium-High. Buzhardt could not explain how the tone had got on the tape. He said Government technicians had been told about it, had listened to it, and could not account for it either. He had even allowed one of the prosecutors, Carl Feldbaum, to hear the affected portion. Feldbaum described the noise as a "medium-high...
...newest tape revelation was especially embarrassing to the White House, since it was the fourth recording promised to the court that now is claimed to be either wholly nonexistent or partly inaudible. Moreover, this tape is the same one about which Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, had testified in Sirica's court three weeks ago. She said she had spent 31½ hours trying to transcribe the conversation. While she mentioned various troublesome sounds, including bomblike noises when the President put his feet on his desk near a hidden microphone, she made no mention of such...
...latest tape debacle is certain to further erode public confidence in the integrity of the Nixon tapes. A Louis Harris opinion survey, begun after Nixon had started his series of talks with congressional Republicans but before his televised question-and-answer appearance at the Associated Press Managing Editors convention, showed that 55% of the public still did not believe Nixon's claim that two of the tapes never were made. A plurality (47% to 27%) believed that the two tapes were destroyed because they would have revealed the President's complicity in the Watergate coverup. More seriously...