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Tapes Have Puzzling `Gap NOV a t973 conversations about the Watergate icandal: "She ,said, 'I want you to know that's not the right word,' " Bennett related. She said, " 'I did not tran- scribe the tapes. That's the wrong word to use.' " "I said, 'Rose Mary, ju%, tell the truth when you over there,' " Bennett sai, of Miss Woods' expected ap- pearance as a witness: White House lawyers said Miss Woods would testify, but it was not clear when she will be called. Former White House chief of staff I H.R. (Bob) Haldeman is ex- 1 pected to be on the stand to The lengthy hearings on ROSE MARY WOODS JOHN C. BENNETT JUDGE JOHN J. SIRICK the missing conversations — . finds gap in tapes . describes playback . seeks expert analysis one with Dean and the other a phone call that Mr. Nixon WXPost NOV 8 1973 placed to former Attorney General John N. Mitchell on June 20, 1972—are certain to Tapes Have Puzzling `Gap" continue into next week. ti or by the Senate Watergate Judge Sirica announced committee. yesterday that he wants an Nixon Aide Testifies analysis and testimony by The White House asserted electronic experts to explore By George Lardner Jr. last week that two of the "the reasons that might ex- Washington Post Staff Writer tapes that Cox subpoenaed ist for the non-existence of President Nixon's personal secretary, for the Watergate grand these conversations." He Rose Mary Woods, has found a puzzling jury here—one of them a said that phase "may well, crucial April 15, 1973, talk be the most important and "gap" in one of Mr. Nixon's Watergate- t between the President and related tapes, a White House aide testi- conclusive part of these Dean about the Watergate hearings." 'lied yesterday. scandal—never existed. Deputy presidential assistant John C. 1 White House lawyers and Bennett said in federal court here that Miss Woods was told ;on witnesses have said the Miss Woods complained to him on Tues- Monday, however, that the tape ran out before Mr. day that one of the recordings she was President wanted an ac- Nixon's talk with Dean in reviewing for the President seemed to, count of a conversation he the Executive Offiee Build- trail off in mid-conversation. had with Dean on April 16— ing on April 15, a Sunday "She apparently had found a gap' in which was not subpoenaed. night. ,Theyi say the phone what she expected to be a recorded con- Bennett said he gave her Mr. Nixon used to call Mitch- versation," Bennett said. He said he pre- half a dozen tapes, any one ell was not hooked up tq sumed it involved a talk between the of which might contain a re- the long-secret system for President and former White House coun- cording of that encounter. recording presidential con-, sel John- W. Dean III. Under questioning by versations. The White House aide said that Miss Watergate Assistant Special The Secret Service agent Woods . mentioned the problem to him Prosecutor Richard Ben- who helped install the sys- when he returne4 to the White House Veniste, Bennett said Miss tem in. February of 1971, Tuesday evening following his first day's Woods was playing the tapes Randy Nelson, testified yes- testimony on the tapes before U.S. Dis- back on an ordinary ma- terday that fresh reels of trict Court Judge John J. Sirica. chine without any special tape were not normally in- "Did Miss Woods seem to be sur- devices that he knew of for stalled on weekends. prised?" Judge Sirica asked him. preventing inadvertent era- But Nelson, who went to a "I think she was puzzled," Bennett new assignment early in sures or mutilations. 1972, said under cross-exami- said. "The tape, was on the machine. She If any -chance damage said, 'I've got a gap in this.'" nation that he never knew were done to the tapes,13en- of a tape running out on a See TAPES, A5, Col. 1 nett acknowledged, there weekend either. would be no way to retrieve "Not to my knowledge," TAPES, Frain Al the conversations. he said. But he added: "I've "So far as I know," he heard that a tape ran out." Bennett, the official cus- said, "there is no copy of the The last witness of the todian of Mr. Nixon's secret tapes in existence." day, Alfred Wong, now dep- tapes since last July 18, said Bennett testified Tuesday uty assistant director of the he told her: "'Rose Mary, I that White House chief of Secret Service, said that he don't know what portion of staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. unsuccessfully opposed the tape you're interested in, told him Miss Woods was White House demands in but do the best you can.' " "transcribing" conversations 1971 that the Secret Service Bennett said that he was on the tapes in her poSses- install the system, but was not certain just what tape sion lfor the President. Ws- overruled by then presiden- Miss Woods was having a terday" he said she might tial assistant Alexander But- problem with. She has had simply be summarizing terfield. He said Butterfield eight of Mr. Nixon's secret them instead of making told him "the P r e si d ent Watergate tapes for more word-for-word transcripts. wanted a historical record than a month and another Miss Woods, Bennett ex- of the activities of his of- six were given to her Mon- plained, walked into his fice." day. But not all of them are White House office yester- Wong said he eventually covered by the subpoenas day morning after reading agreed to the system, only on that were issued either by of Benriett's Tuesday te§ti- condition that,Secret Service former Watergate Special molly about h r technicians and agents not Prosecutor Archibald Cox "transcribing" Mr. Nixon's listen to any o the tapes. .
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