Jill Wine-Banks: Nixon’s phone log gap seems — based on my experience and other experts — to have been a deliberate erasure. Is Trump’s? - NBCNewsTHINK
caused by her mistakenly hitting the record button rather than the stop button on the recording machine, coupled with keeping her foot on the pedal that stopped and started playback. Her theory strained credulity. Several experts concluded it was not an accidental single erasure, butTrump’s gap is also suspicious. For one thing, the Post reported the phone log shows the president was busy making calls before and after the gap, making a seven-hour-plus break in calls unlikely.
Luckily, alternative sources often exist, outside of the official records, that can fill in gaps — inadvertent or malicious.Handwritten notes from Nixon’s Oval Office conversation with Haldeman — taken by Haldeman — showed that pause started precisely when their conversation turned to the Watergate break-in and ended when they pivoted to other matters. Haldeman’s notes spelled out the content of the missing minutes.
Ultimately, however, while the similarities between the two examples are important, so, too, are the differences. Nixon’s gap was a single conversation about covering up a third-rate burglary. This we know because of Haldeman’s notes, which detail their conversation about a PR offensive to counter the Watergate break-in and a plan to sweep for bugs in the White House offices.
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