Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, but Nixon was so impressed by his legal skills that Wright has become the constitutional specialist on the new White House team of lawyers parrying the legal thrusts of Watergate. It was Wright who wrote the White House refusal to Cox's request for the presidential tape recordings, and he is briefing the press on the President's evolving defense...
...Oval Office and the office in the Executive Office Building were also bugged for general conversations among persons on the premises. Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that the bugs were voiceactivated, a term which means that a tape starts running as soon as someone speaks. But TIME has learned that his testimony was incorrect. Voice-activated recording (VOX in the jargon of the snooper's trade) has one major drawback: a slight time lag between the beginning of conversation and the start of recording. As part of the quest for simple, sure fidelity, Nixon's mikes were...
That 1792 precedent has stood. As Senator Sam Ervin's committee grapples with the problem of getting Nixon's presidential papers, tape transcripts or the tapes themselves, the legal situation is much as Washington left...
Because of that vacuum, constitutional scholars can scarcely be sure of anything. But there is general agreement that tapes and tape transcripts are legally the same as documents for the purposes of subpoena. And, for that matter, there is no major legal difference between a request for presidential papers and a request for his personal testimony. To date, there has never been a congressional subpoena issued to a President. Senator Ervin is confident that one could be, however. Such a subpoena, he argues, would not violate Executive privilege if it sought specified material that related only to campaign or allegedly...
...deliberately moving from comparatively simple industries into increasingly complex ones. Park built up power plants and a transportation infrastructure, then pushed export industries which took advantage of his country's low cost of labor. Soon electronics boomed, and South Korea today exports phonographs, FM radios, television sets and tape recorders. In fact, most of Japan's Sony black and white TV sets are now actually manufactured in Korea...