Presidents come and go from the White House every four year or eight years. But descendants of John Strother Ficklin, a ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White ...

Butterfield supervised the placement of a voice-activated recording system that operated at locations including the White ...

By Bill Trott WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal ...

The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died.

Alexander Butterfield, who has died aged 99, was the former White House aide who dropped a bombshell in July 1973 when he told a Senate committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the 1972 ...

The family that served 13 presidents in the White House over eight decades - The Ficklin family was a constant presence for ...

Butterfield served as a deputy assistant to Nixon from 1969 to 1973 ...

Alexander Butterfield, a former White House aide who exposed the recordings that revealed the Watergate scandal, has died. He ...

As a deputy assistant to the president, he supervised Richard Nixon's taping system that had been secretly placed in four ...