Nixon. The transcripts revealed payoffs, affiliation with the burglaries, and the OK's to the cover-up, But most important "the transcripts showed that Nixon had lied repeatedly after he had denied knowing anything about the conspiracy" (27). After much struggle, the courts finally got the tapes from Nixon, It was Archibald Cox that issued the subpoena for the tapes, and that started the bloodbath we now know as the Saturday night massacre. "The night of October 20,1973, possibly the most tumultuous in American political history, when the special Watergate prosecutor and the nations two top law officers lost their jobs within the space of an hour and a half." (Heritage 38). Soon the country would find a new problem with the tapes. "When the presidents lawyers were going over the tapes, they came along an 18 minute gap during a conversation with Nixon and Haldman" (34). Three weeks later, the gap was discovered, 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 t...
