The Holy Grail of Forensic Recording – Nixon’s 18 1/2 minute gap

It’s Watergate anniversary week this week and the old myths, legends, and “where are they now” stories are picked off the shelf and dusted off. The two big mysteries of Watergate are, of course, the identity of Woodward and Bernstein’s “Deep Throat” and Nixon’s 18 1/2 minute tape gap.

The latest theory has it that “Deep Throat” is Pat Buchanan, but the mystery of the 18 1/2 minute gap is going to be a heck of a lot tougher to figure out. The Wired story goes into the nitty gritty about the tape and the efforts to figure out what’s on it. ABC News summarizes also.

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