As it happened, Butterfield was asked the direct question by the minority (Republican) counsel, Donald Sanders.
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H. R. Haldeman, the chief of staff to President-elect Richard Nixon, knew Butterfield from having studied with him at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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John Dean had previously mentioned that he suspected White House conversations were taped, and the committee was therefore routinely asking witnesses about it.
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Chief Minority Counsel, Fred Thompson, notably asked "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?"
Federal Aviation Administration head, Alexander Butterfield, was being privately questioned by Senate committee staff members, when Sanders asked if it were possible that a recording system had been used in the White House.
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