The Watergate special counsel investigation found an 18.5 minute gap in Nixon's recorded phone calls, which Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe compared to gaps in the Trump-Zelenskiy memo.
He said that Trump mentioned recordings of Joe Biden discussing corruption in Ukraine, while Zelenskiy mentioned Burisma Holdings—the natural gas company for whom Biden's son Hunter worked—in reference to the unproven corruption allegations against the Bidens., Vindman said he pushed to have the passages included in the memo, but that he was unsuccessful. The White House, meanwhile, said the ellipses indicated where voices had trailed off.
Reacting to the reports, Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe drew a comparison to Nixon's infamous secret tapes and his apparent efforts to hide the most incriminating parts.While battling Watergate Special Counsel Archibald Cox's subpoena for the White House's phone call recordings, Nixon's lawyers found an. Nixon's personal secretary—Rose Mary Woods—took responsibility for the missing portion, claiming to have accidentally wiped it.
The claim was widely dismissed, and though it did not prove that Nixon had ordered the destruction of that portion of the recordings, the furor cast doubt on the president's claim he was not aware of any cover-up. This is not the first time that Rose Mary Woods has come up in the Ukraine scandal. Earlier this month, Watergate prosecutorFollowing reports of Vindman's testimony, other Twitter users also involved Nixon's former secretary. Physicist,"Where's Rose Mary Woods when you need her?"
President Donald Trump is pictured while speaking at the McCormick Place Convention Center on October 28, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois.
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