Alexander butterfield biography

Alexander Porter Butterfield is a retired United States Air Force officer, public official, and businessman.
Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a retired United States Air Force officer, public official, and businessman.
Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman.

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Alexander Butterfield

American retired military officer, public official, and businessman (born 1926)

Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a retired United States Air Forceofficer, public official, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He revealed the White House taping system's existence on July 13, 1973, during the Watergate investigation but had no other involvement in the scandal. From 1973 to 1975, he served as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Early life and Air Force career

Butterfield was born April 6, 1926, in Pensacola, Florida, to Susan Armistead Alexander Butterfield and United States Navy pilot (later rear admiral) Horace B. Butterfield. He grew up in Coronado, California, and left home in 1943.^[3] Butterfield enrolled in college at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a friend of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He left the university to join the United States Air Force in 1948.^[a]

Initially, Butterfield was sta

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Primary Sources

(1) H. R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power (1978)

There was definitely a desire on Nixon's part to have the tapes for his own use in whatever historical work he might do after leaving office, and for reference while he was in office. But the main driving force that led Nixon to approve the use of a taping system was his desire for an accurate record of everything that was said in meetings with foreign guests, government officials and his own staff. He recognised the problem of either intentional or unintentional distortion or misunderstanding and became more and more concerned about the absence of such a record...
In a meeting-between Nixon and me, he decided to install a taping system. It was done in utmost secrecy. Among the President's top advisers, only I knew of its existence. And I soon learned why he insisted on such absolute secrecy. Nixon never intended anyone to hear the tapes except himself. They were never, even to be transcribed.
I remember the day clearly when his attitude towards the tapes was made evident to me. Earl
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