Scissors To History

Mon., Aug. 10, 1998

The original Nixon White House tape recorder is shown above. Decades after fighting over the tapes began, the National Archives, under a court order it fought for years, today begins cutting up the original tapes from the Watergate years and returning portions dealing with private matters to the late president’s estate.

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Scissors To History

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