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Watergate and the 18 minute gap; No clear reason surfaced for the tape's erasure

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From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
Date: 20031116
Author:BRUCE KAUFFMANN

"Time is a slippery thing." - Sherwood Anderson

The episode in our history known as Watergate went from a crime to the ridiculous this week (Nov. 21) in 1973 when it was revealed that there was a mysterious 181/2-minute gap in one of President Nixon's subpoenaed White House ape recordings.

Earlier in the year, in testimony before a congressional committee investigating Watergate, a White House aide revealed to an astonished nation that Nixon secretly recorded all conversations in the Oval Office.

The clear inference from this revelation was that if Nixon had any involvement in the Watergate ...

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