Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal ...

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide who revealed the existence of damaging recordings related to the break-in ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White ...

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide whose testimony helped trigger Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal, has died, his wife confirmed to the Associated Press. Butterfield was ...

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal ...

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During President Barack Obama’s May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: “And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week’s ...

There is tape in the Oval Office,” said Mr. Butterfield, a former White House aide, in testimony that rocked the Watergate hearings and led to the president’s resignation.

As a deputy assistant to the president, he supervised Richard Nixon's taping system that had been secretly placed in four locations.