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Jan. 28, 1974: The Telltale Tape
The report was coldly scientific, its source unassailably objective, its grave import unmistakably clear: at least as late as last October, an effort to conceal evidence in the Watergate scandal was still in operation in the innermost reaches of Richard Nixon's White House.... But in reporting to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the conversation had been erased by pushing buttons on a tape recorder at least five, and probably nine, times, they had found, in effect, that this destruction of evidence necessarily had to be deliberate.
From: A Telltale Tape Deepens Nixon's Dilemma, Jan. 28, 1974

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