New Nixon tapes show that president was in the dark about Watergate cover-up.

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New Nixon White House tapes, released in November 1996 thanks to a dramatic compromise by the Nixon family and estate, show that President Nixon was as much in the dark about the Watergate break-in and cover-up as he said during the scandal, according to an analysis by a Nixon insider published in the March 1998 issue of the American Spectator.

John H. Taylor, the former President's chief aide between 1984-90 and...