Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sirica hearings centered mainly on the other missing tape,* one that was believed to have been made of a conversation on April 15, 1973 between Nixon and his fired former counsel, John Dean. In that talk, Dean has testified, Nixon admitted he had been "foolish" in discussing Executive clemency for E. Howard Hunt in exchange for his silence. He had also said, according to Dean, that his previous assurance that it would be easy to raise $1,000,000 for silence money for the arrested men was intended only as a joke. That, as Dean saw it, meant that Nixon...
...recording was not made because of "a malfunction or a basic inadequacy of the system." Raymond Zumwalt, a Secret Service technician who had supervised the installation of the system, then theorized that a timing device that was supposed to switch automatically from one recording machine to another when a tape ran out had failed to work...
...length of the conversation was pointed out, Zumwalt suddenly recalled that the changeover timer was set to operate only six days a week, since a single six-hour reel could normally handle the relatively limited weekend conversations. That meant no back-up recorder takeover on Sunday if the tape...
Into Isolation. The April 15 date was also covered in a withdrawal of nine reels between July 9 and July 11 by Bull, who gave them to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff. Bull also said that he checked out 22 tapes on April 25 and 26 and had given them to Haldeman-a surprising fact that Haldeman had not reported in his Senate Watergate testimony. Haldeman has admitted listening to only two tapes (Sept. 15 and March 21), He has been subpoenaed for questioning this week in the Sirica hearings. Further confusing the matter, Senate investigators...
...Florida, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said that Nixon would be willing to produce for the court the tape of a memo he dictated about the April 15 conversation with Dean-although Nixon's version is hardly apt to satisfy any of the many Watergate investigators. Some are openly skeptical of the White House claims and suspect that the missing April 15 tape might have been destroyed when Haldeman had it in his possession in July. Warren insisted that Nixon was determined "to clear up this matter" of the tapes and again felt compelled to reiterate that Nixon...