Want to read an article about attempts to recover the 18-and-a-half minute gap on Nixon's White House tapes? There's one this month in Wired Magazine and here's a link to the on-line version of it. Forgive me for sounding excited about this — I'm really not, since I'm not expecting results — but it's one of the two lingering questions from the whole Watergate mess. The other, of course, is the identity of the Woodward-Bernstein informant, Deep Throat, and that one will presumably be answered some day when the individual passes away…or, if all the suspects die and nothing's revealed, we'll know the reporters just made him up.
The tape gap has no guaranteed answer, and it probably won't change any minds about Nixon. Still, it might shed an interesting new light on an unresolved piece of American history. If they can unerase it, that is.