World Blog by humble servant. 10-11 But the most explosive relation came when the former presidential appointments secretary Alexander Butterfield revealed that all conversations and phone calls in Nixon’s office had been taped since 1971. The tapes were almost immediately disconnected on Nixon’s order and he refused to comply with the committee’s subpoena for him to release the tapes invoking presidential privilege
But the most explosive relation came when the former presidential appointments secretary Alexander Butterfield revealed that all conversations and phone calls in Nixon’s office had been taped since 1971. The tapes were almost immediately disconnected on Nixon’s order and he refused to comply with the committee’s subpoena for him to release the tapes invoking presidential privilege.10. Saturday Night Massacre
The battle over the release of the tapes continued as the special prosecutor, Cox, refused to drop the subpoena. When the Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus refused to fire Cox, Nixon called for their resignations. He was able to fire Cox anyway and both the AG and deputy AG resigned in protest.
Later Nixon famously went in front of the media and the world at a press conference from Disney World in Florida to declare that he is not a crook: 11. ‘The Smoking Gun’
In March of 1974 the grand jury indicted seven Nixon officials – known as the Watergate Seven – for their involvement in the cover-up and many later served jail time. But the battle over the tapes continued and went all the way to the US Supreme Court where, with the exception of the recused Justice William Rehnquist (whom Nixon had appointed), there was a unanimous ruling that they should be released.
Nixon complied with the order in July 1974 and released the subpoenaed tapes which revealed several crucial conversations with his lawyer John Dean in which Dean described the continuing cover-up operations as a “cancer on the presidency”.
It then emerged that there had been an 18-minute section of the tapes erased. Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods said this had been done accidentally when she pushed the wrong foot pedal but photos posed for the media appeared to undermine the liklihood of this and analysis later determined the tape had been erased in several sections.The in August of ’74, a previously unknown audio tape was released which recorded an Oval Office conversation a few days after the break-in which documented the formulation of a plan by Nixon and Bob Haldeman to block investigations by having the CIA falsely claim to the FBI that national security was at issue in the Watergate break-in.s
This is the exact audio from the tape that is referred to as the ‘smoking gun’ and in the words of Nixon’s own lawyers “proved that the President had lied to the nation, to his closest aides, and to his own lawyers – for more than two years”:
The battle over the release of the tapes continued as the special prosecutor, Cox, refused to drop the subpoena. When the Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus refused to fire Cox, Nixon called for their resignations. He was able to fire Cox anyway and both the AG and deputy AG resigned in protest.
Later Nixon famously went in front of the media and the world at a press conference from Disney World in Florida to declare that he is not a crook: 11. ‘The Smoking Gun’
In March of 1974 the grand jury indicted seven Nixon officials – known as the Watergate Seven – for their involvement in the cover-up and many later served jail time. But the battle over the tapes continued and went all the way to the US Supreme Court where, with the exception of the recused Justice William Rehnquist (whom Nixon had appointed), there was a unanimous ruling that they should be released.
Nixon complied with the order in July 1974 and released the subpoenaed tapes which revealed several crucial conversations with his lawyer John Dean in which Dean described the continuing cover-up operations as a “cancer on the presidency”.
It then emerged that there had been an 18-minute section of the tapes erased. Nixon’s personal secretary Rose Mary Woods said this had been done accidentally when she pushed the wrong foot pedal but photos posed for the media appeared to undermine the liklihood of this and analysis later determined the tape had been erased in several sections.The in August of ’74, a previously unknown audio tape was released which recorded an Oval Office conversation a few days after the break-in which documented the formulation of a plan by Nixon and Bob Haldeman to block investigations by having the CIA falsely claim to the FBI that national security was at issue in the Watergate break-in.s
This is the exact audio from the tape that is referred to as the ‘smoking gun’ and in the words of Nixon’s own lawyers “proved that the President had lied to the nation, to his closest aides, and to his own lawyers – for more than two years”:
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