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Saturday, July 14, 1973
- Woodward is contacted by a member of the Senate's investigative staff and told that Butterfield revealed to them that Nixon had installed a taping system and had been recording his own conversations. The committee, however, is concerned the tapes could be doctored to exonerate certain people in the administration. Woodward calls Bradlee at home, but the editor is unimpressed.
"The White House has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident."
Richard Nixon | President of the United States