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with. would they exonerate nixon. was he waiting to spring this? you know, lots of different things. were they still present? were they still in existence. had they long since been destroyed. i think butterfield has been destroyed. the entire time the taping system was there. but anyway, they could have still gotten rid of him. so all those things came to mind. it was only when the heat got so hot and the president resisted for so long and took him so much heat while still refusing to give up the tapes that it became obvious to me that there were much more serious problems than i had ever thought there was. richard, how did the tapes change the game? they were essential to proving a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. here, you know, as jim lehrer said earlier the system worked. but the system would not have worked had not the president taped himself and had not we been able to obtain the tapes because the court ruled in our favor saying that no man is abov ....