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

The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died. Alexander Butterfield was 99. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by ...

Watergate — the political drama, the building, the ever-evolving meme — could soon have a brick-and-mortar museum in ...

Mr. Butterfield, a onetime aide to the president, electrified the Watergate investigation with his bombshell testimony about ...

Alexander Butterfield oversaw the installation and operation of a voice-activated recording system in the Nixon White House ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide whose testimony revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system and changed the course of American history, has died. The 99 ...

Read more about Nixon’s resignation in TIME’s archives. Friday marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard 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 served as a deputy assistant to Nixon from 1969 to 1973 ...

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