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

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White ...

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

Read more about Nixon’s resignation in TIME’s archives. Friday marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon ...

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

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

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

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

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide whose testimony helped trigger Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal, has died, his wife confirmed to the Associated Press. Butterfield was ...

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 ...