TIME Covers Watergate

Dec. 10, 1973: The Secretary and the Tapes
In Judge Sirica's court last week, Miss Woods testified that she must have been responsible for at least 4 and a half minutes of a raspy, overriding hum on the tape of a talk between Nixon and H.R. Haldeman, then his Chief of Staff, on June 20, 1972, just three days after the Watergate burglary.
From: The Secretary and the Tapes Tangle, Dec. 10, 1973

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