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Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
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1970s political scandal in the U.S.
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Alexander Butterfield
American retired military officer, public official, and businessman (born 1926)
Alexander Porter Butterfield is a retired United States Air Force officer, public official, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He revealed the White House taping system's existence on July 13, 1973, during the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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1973 US Senate committee to investigate the Watergate scandal
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