Bill Belichick as he appeared in his 1970 high school yearbook, two years before his fateful conversation with…
…avid football fan Richard Milhouse Nixon. (AP Photo)
The discovery is all the more amazing for its timing. The 18 1/2-minute gap in one of President Nixon’s White House tapes, which has been a source of fascination for presidential scholars and Watergate conspiracy buffs for decades (especially among those skeptical of the controversial “Rose Mary Stretch,” which supposedly accounted for the erasure), has been recaptured thanks to recent advances in the field of forensic audio technology. Working with a team of acoustic experts, presidential scholar Charles Faux-Pas Bidet, Professor of History at Staten Island’s Dyke College and author of Clinton: Statesman or Swinger?, confirmed his findings earlier today. He told Bud Fox News‘ Silence Bellows:
Given what’s happening in the NFL this week, this discovery is such a chilling coincidence that I almost fainted. The date is June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in. The recaptured audio tapes reveal a jovial President Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman chatting with a young Bill Belichick, who was at the White House on a tour. Nixon, an avid football fan, had apparently learned that one of the White House visitors was a college football player and had him pulled out of the group to speak with him.
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