Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99
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FILE - Alexander Butterfield, testifies, July 16, 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee. Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixons resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. (AP Photo/File)FILE - Alexander Butterfield, former deputy assistant to President Nixon, speaks during the Presidential Tapes Conference at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Feb. 16, 2003. Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixons resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)
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FILE - Alexander Butterfield, testifies, July 16, 1973 before the Senate Watergate Committee. Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixons resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99. (AP Photo/File)