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>> she described that she had pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she also had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> miss woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. and there was just no way it was believable. >> the white house contention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidentally erased will give more ammunition to the president's cr...

>> ms. woods said it was a mistake. a record button hit accidentally while she took a phone call. >> she described that she pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she also had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there was no way it was believable. >> the white house contention that the talk between the president...

>> ms. woods said it was a mistake. a record button hit accidentally while she took a phone call. >> she described that she pushed the wrong button. instead of pushing stop, she had pushed record. she had to keep her foot on the pedal. >> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there was no way it was believable. >> the white house intention that the talk between the president and h...

>> mrs. woods used the machine to show how it happened. >> when i asked her to demonstrate, she pushed the button, kept her foot on and she supposedly reached back about six feet to get the telephone. her foot came off the pedal just with the mere movement. there was no way it was believable. >> the white house intention that the talk between the president and haldeman was accidently erased would give more ammunition to the president's critics. >> to hear something so obviously untrue changed a lot of the american public's view of the whole situation. >> rosemary woods would stand by her story...

Realist. we got problem. >> on march 21st john dean gave nixon a blunt assessment of the damage that watergate was doing to his presidency. >> he had his feet on the desk when was looking around his shoes at me. >> i have the impression you don't everything i know and it makes it very difficult for you to make judgments only you can make. >> after that remark his feet were solidly on the floor. and i had his full attention. i knew at that point he knew something but i didn't know how much. >> there is no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we got. >> i'm warning him we have problems. th...