MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show March 20, 2018
Tape secret. And then once the public knew the tapes existed, they fought to keep them private and never release them. Ultimately, the Nixon White House came up with a ridiculous offer that would make it look like they were releasing the tapes without them ever actually having to do so. Weve talked about this on the show before. It was called the stennis compromise. To avoid releasing the tapes, nixon offered the special prosecutor in watergate a deal. The white house would not hand over the tapes but they would listen to the tapes themselves, type up written summaries of what they said was on...
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