Mr. Butterfield, a onetime aide to the president, electrified the Watergate investigation with his bombshell testimony about ...
He disclosed then-President Richard Nixon had a recording system in the Oval Office.
Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who revealed to Congress that there was a secret taping system in the White House, died on Monday at age 99 ...
There is tape in the Oval Office,” said Mr. Butterfield, a former White House aide, in testimony that rocked the Watergate hearings and led to the president’s resignation.