rosemary woods, claimed she accidentally erased those 18 1/2 minutes one day when she just happened to hit the foot pedal on the tape recorder while stretching out to reach for her phone. for 18 1/2 minutes. yeah, i don t buy that one either. so far nobody has been able to recover the sound from that gap, that 18 1/2-minute gap in those erased tapes. but back if november 2009 the national archives got a tip from an amateur historian that there were also some pages missing, some pages missing from the careful, detailed notes that the chief of staff, bob haldeman, had taken during that meeting with nixon. notes written in ballpoint pen on a pad of yellow lined paper. the pad overall was saved in the national archives. it s now known as government exhibit 61. notes that nobody realized might be incomplete until an intelligence veteran and amateur watergate historian named phil mellinger realized that not every page was there on that pad of paper and there might be a
because in the investigation of the watergate scandal the tapes from the oval office recording system were made public. most of them were. in the recordings that were made public there was an 18 1/2-minute gap. the president s secretary, rosemary woods, claimed she accidentally erased those 18 1/2 minutes one day when she just happened to hit the foot pedal on the tape recorder while stretching out to reach for her phone. for 18 1/2 minutes. yeah, i don t buy that one either. so far nobody has been able to recover the sound from that gap, that 18 1/2-minute gap in those erased tapes. but back if november 2009 the national archives got a tip from an amateur historian that there were also some pages missing, some pages missing from the careful, detailed notes that the chief of staff, bob haldeman, had taken during that meeting with nixon. notes written in ballpoint pen on a pad of yellow lined paper. the pad overall was saved in the national archives. it s now known as government exhibit
country less corrupt. chris hayes, washington editor of the nation magazine, msnbc contributor, and person wearing a very particularly lovely purplish-blue shirt this evening. that s very kind of you. thank you, rachel. thank you, my friend. have a good night. get ready. it is the return of moment of geek. put on your conspiracy hats for this one. we have watergate, nixon, 18 1/2 minutes of erased tape, and the handwritten notes that could blow this whole thing wide open. the truth is out there. this is a really good one. next. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar.
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in june 1972, just three days after the watergate break-in? we know most of what they said because in the investigation of the watergate scandal the tapes from the oval office recording system were made public. most of them were. in the recordings that were made public there was an 18 1/2-minute gap. the president s secretary, rosemary woods, claimed she accidentally erased those 18 1/2 minutes one day when she just happened to hit the foot pedal on the tape recorder while stretching out to reach for her phone. for 18 1/2 minutes. yeah, i don t buy that one either. so far nobody has been able to recover the sound from that gap, that 18 1/2-minute gap in those erased tapes. but back if november 2009 the national archives got a tip from an amateur historian that there were also some pages missing, some pages missing from the careful, detailed notes that the chief of staff, bob haldeman, had taken during that meeting with nixon. notes written in ballpoint pen on a pad of yellow lined pape