Way back in olden times, during the leadup to the 1972 election, several men broke into the Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate hotel in DC to steal campaign information. It's unclear whether Richard Nixon knew about the plans ahead of time, but he certainly found out about it later, and did nothing. This led to the infamous question of "what did he know, and when did he know it?".
All of this became a huge investigation, especially when it was revealed that Nixon used the advanced technology of tape recording to tape his conversations. That paranoia would become his undoing when the investigative committees and special prosecutors demanded the tapes. The damning evidence wasn't what was on the tapes, but what
wasn't on the tapes: 18 1/2 minutes of blank space
where a key conversation should have been:
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