Historical Events tagged with "tape"
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Politics & Government
The Watergate Tape Gap Discovery
June 20th, 1972 52 years ago
An 18½-minute gap in the tape recordings of discussions between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers raised suspicions about the Watergate scandal. This gap occurred during conversations regarding the arrests of Nixon's operatives following their break-in at the Watergate complex. The disappearance of the recording fueled further investigations into the administration's potential cover-up of the events surrounding the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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