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

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.