[Mb-civic] Snipping at Nixon History

Tue Oct 12 12:07:49 PDT 2004

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Sniping at Nixon History

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Snipping at Nixon History 
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The president's secret recordings are culled for off-limits family tidbits and inside GOP politics. But the cuts are painful for archivists.

By Scott Martelle
Times Staff Writer

October 12 2004

COLLEGE PARK, Md. &#8212; Sometime in the very near future, Bill Cowell will hunker down in front of a bulky 25-year-old tape player in a nondescript cubicle at the National Archives, clap on a headset and, guided by codes on a sheet of paper, find a precise spot on a thin, brown ribbon to mark with his grease pencil. 

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