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Rosemary Woods (Nixon?s secretary) testified that while

transcribing the tape, she had accidentally erased perhaps five

minutes when interrupted by a phone call, she said she had

pressed the ?Record? button instead of the ?Stop? button and

then kept her foot on the machines control pedal while speaking

into the phone. (34)

?Not everyone accepted this explanation; The maneuver would have been

difficult to perform because of the distance between the recording machine

and the telephone in her office? (34).

Watergate was unraveling, and the story kept getting bigger. Nixon

was just having to much fun in the white house. Before he was busted, ?He

ordered the FBI to place wire taps on the phones of thirteen government

officials, and four prominent reporters? (Fremon 28). Nixon was abusing his

powers to the extent, and to him there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

Nixon needed the FBI to stop the Watergate investigation.

Former attorney general John Michell knew that the FBI had a

long-standing agreement with the CIA that neither agency would

jeopardize the other?s operations. If the FBI could be convinced

that the CIA had somehow been involved in financing or

carrying out the Watergate burglary, the investigation could be

curtailed on the ground of protecting ?national security.?

Dorman 159)

Nixon then told the chief of staff:

You call them [the CIA director, Richard M. Helms, and his

deputy, Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters] in. . . . Play it tough. That?s

the way they play it and that?s the way were gona play it. . . .

Say: ?Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the

whole Bay of Pigs thing. . . . and that they should call the FBI in

and say that we wish for the country, don?t go any further into