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 ...

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 ...

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.

Butterfield supervised the placement of a voice-activated recording system that operated at locations including the White ...

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who revealed to Congress that there was a secret taping system in the White House, died on Monday at age 99 ...

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

The Watergate scandal grew worse in 1974—and then worse still. CT looked at President Richard Nixon’s ethical lapses, revealed in the publication of transcripts of secret tapes he had in the White ...

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 ...