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Aug 3, 2014 · The secret of Nixon tapes’ 18-minute gap revealed. By. Lauren Tousignant. Published Aug. 3, 2014, 12:02 a.m. ET. The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It by John W. Dean...
Nixon appointed Leon Jaworski special counsel on November 1, 1973. 18½-minute gap. According to Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods, on September 29, 1973, she was reviewing a tape of the June 20, 1972, recordings, when she made "a terrible mistake" during transcription.
Jun 14, 2017 · The Watergate tapes' infamous 18.5-minute gap and Nixon's secretary's unusual explanation for it - ABC News. Rose Mary Woods testified she recorded over some of the tape by mistake. ByABC News. June 14, 2017, 11:22 AM. 11:53. Richard Nixon's secretary Rosemary Woods stands in front of a poster for her boss during the 1960 Presidential Election.
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Nov 21, 1973 · By Andrew Glass. 11/20/2016 11:24 PM EST. On this day in 1973, J. Fred Buzhardt, a lawyer defending President Richard Nixon in the Watergate case, revealed to U.S. District Court Judge John...
May 26, 2022 · What we do know: In December 1973, investigators discovered that there was a lapse in one of then-President Richard M. Nixon’s secret tapes. Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, claimed to have accidentally erased the missing minutes, which are believed to contain a conversation between Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H. R. “Bob ...
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Soon afterwards the Special Prosecutor was informed that two tapes requested were missing and that the tape for June 20, 1972 had an 18 ½ minute gap. The Nixon Administration stated the erasure was accidental, and the president’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, claimed she had inadvertently erased that portion of tape.
Jun 17, 2014 · Chief of Staff Alexander Haig blamed the 18 1/2 minute gap on a “sinister force.” In January 1974, experts who examined the tape reported that were four or five separate erasures.