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Special Senate Committee

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1973

Alexander Butterfield13 July 1973

Watergate · Politics / Watergate

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 Butterfield16 July 1973

Watergate · Politics / Watergate

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

Names involved

Alexander Butterfield

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