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 House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon ...

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

Butterfield served as a deputy assistant to Nixon from 1969 to 1973 ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide who exposed the recordings that revealed the Watergate scandal, has died. He ...

Leadership demands a blend of vision and practicality. Former US President Richard Nixon famously stated, 'Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.' This quote ...

The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died.

President Richard Nixon declared, “I am not a crook.” President Ronald Reagan coined the phrase “evil empire.” President Chester A. Arthur crankily said, “We shall not stop.” What do those statements ...

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 ...