Alexander Butterfield Biography

Birth of Alexander Butterfield

Appointed Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration

Privately confirms to Senate Watergate investigators that Nixon's White House used an automatic recording system, creating a new source of potential evidence.

Privately tells Senate committee investigators that Nixon's White House used an automatic recording system, creating a new source of potential evidence.

Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices

Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices

Discloses to the Special Senate Committee the existence of the White House tapes

Discloses to the Special Senate Committee the existence of the White House tapes

Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices

Butterfield is put before the full Special Senate Committee to put the taping system on the record

Butterfield is put before the full Special Senate Committee to put the taping system on the record

Publicly confirms before the Senate Watergate Committee that presidential conversations were automatically recorded in several White House locations.

Butterfield coorectly identifies "Deep Throsat" to the Hartford Courant, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt"