Word: uher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told him about the noise in the President's Oval Office, while the White House log shows that she saw him in his E.O.B. office? Why, as Bull testified, did she ask him the precise hour at which the Uher had been purchased...
...procedures. "I've done almost nothing else for two months," he said, estimating that the panel had spent up to 300 man-days examining the tape variously in Manhattan, Cambridge, Salt Lake City, New Haven, Murray Hill, N.J., and Los Gatos, Calif. They were supplied with the now-celebrated Uher 5000 tape recorder used by Rose Mary Woods for transcribing subpoenaed tapes, another White House Uher recorder for comparison, as well as Miss Woods' lamp and typewriter...
...Bolt explained the rudiments of a tape recorder's operation. When the "record" and "start" buttons are pushed, the tape rolls past two "heads" containing tiny electromagnets. The first, the erase head, eliminates most previous signals on the tape. The second, the record head, implants new signals. On the Uher, the two heads are "rigidly fixed" at 28.6 mm. apart. When the erase head is released on the Uher (but not on all recorders) it leaves a minute but discernible four-line "signature" on the tape. This mark is distinctive to the machine. When the machine is set to begin...
That means somebody could have de liberately erased the tape on the Uher...
...response, an Administration spokes man said that the White House has only one Uher 5000 recorder and that only Miss Woods used it. But the Secret Ser vice has at least three of the machines that have been borrowed from time to time by members of Nixon's staff...