When president nixon finally turned over all the watergate tapes to the special prosecutor, the tapes

The tapes had an 18 minute and 30-second gap. The missing content from the recording remains unknown, but the gap occurs during a conversation between Nixon and H. R. Haldeman.

Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary, took responsibility for a supposed mishap. Later, a forensic investigation in 2003 concluded that the tape had been erased in different segments, possibly as many as nine.

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.