Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straightforward passage of governmental prose, printed in the Federal Register a few days ago, is a declaration of intent by Jimmy Carter. It is the preamble to a presidential order he hopes to issue before the end of the year. For those who dwell in the world of red tape, which is most of America, the words shone like diamonds in a mountain of slag. The wisdom rivaled that of Solomon...
...double standard were persecuting the president, Price says he felt no sense of "moral outrage" when White House chief of staff Alexander Haig called him into his office one morning late in July 1974, and presented Price with a transcript of the soon-to-be released "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, which demonstrated beyond doubt that Nixon had participated in the coverup from the start...
Price says he felt not outrage, but a combination of relief and regret when he read the transcript. "I recall it as a time of sadness. On a selfish level, I was glad I hadn't known [about the June 23 tape]. On a less selfish level, I kind of wished I had. Even at quite some cost to myself, I might have found some way of handling it. I might have ended up in jail, but it would have been worth it to salvage the presidency," Price says. "There were larger things at stake...
...found the gap in the June 20, 1972 tape "devastating" to the President's defense, "stretching coincidence to its furthest limits." He says, however, that he always made a point of not asking Woods about the gap while federal prosecutors were investigating the erasure. "I assumed she quite possibly had [erased the tape]. Rose and I are close friends, and if she had, I didn't want her to tell me about it, in case I was ever called on to testify." (Price adds that since the federal investigators dropped the tape gap probe, Woods has on several occasions denied...
...problem now-besides plugging the leaks and protecting informers-is fiding the tape. After Gallina's murder, investigators drew a blank in looking for the probable hiding place: a safe-deposit box he had rented under a fake name...