CBS Evening News - 1973-07-16
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[0:00] This is the CBS Evening News with Roger
[0:03] Mudd substituting for Walter Cronkite
[0:05] and Ed Bradley in Saigon, Bruce Hall in
[0:08] Montgomery, Alabama, Charles Osgood in
[0:10] New York. In Washington, Daniel Schorr,
[0:13] Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Mariah
[0:17] McLaughlin.
[0:19] Good evening. There was a startling
[0:21] development in the Senate Watergate
[0:22] hearings today. A surprise witness told
[0:24] the committee about presidentially
[0:26] approved White House-wide bugging of
[0:28] phones and offices. Daniel Schorr has a
[0:30] report.
[0:31] >> White House special counsel Richard
[0:33] Moore was being examined for a third
[0:35] day. Deputy counsel Terry Lenzner asking
[0:37] him about apparent contradictions
[0:39] between his testimony and White House
[0:41] logs, but committee attention seemed
[0:43] focused elsewhere. Republicans
[0:44] whispering to each other at one point
[0:46] huddling outside. And word spread of a
[0:48] mystery witness. He took the stand
[0:49] without warning right after lunch.
[0:52] >> You aware of the installation of any
[0:53] listening devices in the Oval Office of
[0:55] the President?
[1:00] >> I was aware of listening devices.
[1:04] Yes, sir.
[1:05] >> You aware of any devices that were
[1:07] installed in the Executive Office
[1:08] Building Office of the President?
[1:11] >> Yes, sir.
[1:12] >> Alexander Butterfield, Federal Aviation
[1:14] Administrator, former Haldeman aide at
[1:16] the White House. In an interview with
[1:18] committee staff last Friday, a chance
[1:20] question about John Dean's suspicions
[1:22] his conversations with the President
[1:24] were taped brought a startling reply.
[1:26] For more than 2 years known only by a
[1:28] few, all Mr. Nixon's office
[1:30] conversations at th