What was on the missing 18 1/2 minutes of the Nixon tapes that were "erased"?

Herman Munster

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:27 PM
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What was on the missing 18 1/2 minutes of the Nixon tapes that were "erased"?

I vaugely remember a story about some computer experts trying to use digital technology to piece together some parts of it but I don't know if anything came of it.

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randr

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:30 PM
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1. Alices' Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

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Taverner

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:48 PM
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5. LOL...I saw Arlo and he told us a story about

How Billy Carter said he found "Alice's Restaraunt" in Nixon's record stash....

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:31 PM
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2. Ford on his knees promising lord and master

that no harm would come to him, followed by 16 minutes of moaning and slurping.

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leftofthedial

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:37 PM
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3. it was nixon and ford trading versions of

the dirtiest joke in the world, Aristocrats-style

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Mabus

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:47 PM
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4. I found an article that talks about it

ast summer, the National Archives and Records Administration decided it was time to take another look, in the hope that advances in digital technology would be able to restore the conversation. NARA invited audio experts to demonstrate how they might retrieve intelligible speech. The competition - a battle of the bands among a dozen or fewer audio experts - is expected to last more than a year. Before any of them get their hands on the original tape, they must show they can retrieve sound from test erasures without doing damage. Those who succeed will get a crack at the real thing.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/nixon.html

I haven't found any articles where someone has been able to get a hold of the original yet.

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TomInTib

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:50 PM
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6. I always suspected that it had to do with the JFK thing

Always keep in mind that both RMN and GHWB always claimed that they could not recall their whereabouts on that November day of 1963.

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Raine

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:56 PM
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8. Nixon was obsessed with Kennedy and

(I think) wanted to find out what really happened to him. I think that's what was on the tape and the RWingers took Nixon out because of it. Nixon's probably lucky he didn't end up dead like Kennedy. And yeah I got on my :tinfoilhat: but it's what I think.

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roamer65

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Wed Dec-27-06 10:19 PM
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9. Nixon made many references to that "Bay of Pigs" thing...

Edited on Wed Dec-27-06 10:29 PM by roamer65

elsewhere on his tapes. I think that 18.5 minutes was a detailed explanation of what he meant by the "Bay of Pigs" reference. It would have been a gateway into possibly what happened to Kennedy. I doubt Nixon was personally involved, but I still believe he had a good idea which groups were responsible for it and was actively covering it up.

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Wed Dec-27-06 10:23 PM
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10. They were both in Texas, we know that

they won't say, but they both deposed this fact at least once.

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roamer65

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Wed Dec-27-06 10:28 PM
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11. Newspaper clipping stating the fact that Nixon was in Dallas.

http://mtracy9.tripod.com/kennedy.html

You got it, Scooter.

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lonestarnot

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Wed Dec-27-06 09:53 PM
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7. I thought it had to do with Nixon's direct involvement with the Watergate break-in.

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