Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon ’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and ...

On this day - August 8, 1974 - President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide who revealed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system leading to the Watergate scandal's exposure, has died at 99. His revelation was pivotal in ...