Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman Biography

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Haldeman's personal notes on the meeting indicate that the break-in was the subject under discussion. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, in initial testimony about the tape, said, "The buttons said on and off, forward and backward.

Haldeman.

I caught on to that fairly fast.

I don't think I'm so stupid as to erase what's on a tape." Later she tried to explain that she had accidentally re-recorded 5 minutes of the tape, while transcribing it, but only 5 minutes, not 18 1/2.

She demonstrated how she probably had recorded over the tape with her foot on the transcription pedal located beneath her typewriter as she reached awkwardly for the phone. Suspicions arose that Nixon was destroying evidence

The White House reported that two of the subpoenaed tapes were missing, and that one that was dated just 3 days after the Watergate burglary contained an erasure of 18 1/2 minutes during a conversation between the President and

This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.

This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.

This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.

This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.

This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.

This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.