Word: button
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finding proceedings produced the bizarre testimony of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary. She said she had inadvertently kept her left foot on the pedal of a tape recorder while stretching awkwardly behind her to answer a telephone call, at the same time mistakenly pushing the "record" button on the machine ?and thereby erasing perhaps five minutes (but not 18) of the taped conversation. Asked in Perry Mason-style by Jill Wine Volner, an Assistant Special Prosecutor, to re-enact this, Miss Woods reached for the imaginary phone?and lifted her left foot. Sirica ordered...
...went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows on TV or close the curtains and lock the office door by pressing a button by his desk. "There's a few things you aren't going to stop people from doing," he philosophizes while sitting behind an inch-high stack of $100 bills. "Smoking, drinking, and maybe sometimes placing a bet." For Hecht, an evening at West Flagler "is an evening...
...very difficult to believe that Rose Mary Woods accidentally erased 18 minutes of tape [Dec. 10]. I have been an executive secretary for 20 years, have transcribed from many different kinds of recording machines, and cannot, in all good conscience, believe her statement that she pressed the wrong button. When working on a transcribing machine, you always have uppermost in your mind that you will press the right button because the recorded word is so very important-more so in her case than any other...
...Singer Tex Ritter a record of excerpts from Nixon speeches narrated by Ritter and titled Thank You, Mr. President. He received petitions of support signed by 46,000 people in Shreveport and Bossier City, La. At twilight Friday, Nixon, applauded by Boy Scouts and Camp Fire girls, pushed a button to light a star atop the nation's Christmas tree on the Ellipse south of the White House...
...Haldeman on June 20, 1972 -three days after the Watergate break-in-was erased. White House aides have tried to pin the blame on Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who admits to the possibility of having accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying that he had re-created a loud hum on the erased tape by using Miss Woods' electric typewriter, high-intensity lamp and Uher 5000 tape recorder...