Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Trump was Right About Democrat Spying" video.
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Nixon wasn't bugged, as taping of conversations was started during his term. He knew he was being taped, but tried to stop those tapes from being released, and ordered the tapes destroyed. What was released even had gaps in them.
President Taped Talks, Phone Calls; Lawyer Ties Ehrlichman to Payments
Principal Offices Secretly Bugged Since Spring 1971
Former Nixon aide,
Alexander Butterfield, 1992.
Michael Darden for The Washington Post
By Lawrence Meyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 17, 1973; Page A01:
"President Nixon has been routinely taping all his conversations and meetings in the Oval Office and cabinet room of the White House, in his Executive Office Building office and on four of his personal telephones, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield told the Senate select Watergate committee yesterday."
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