No kidding - downright creepy for anyone who actually is old enough to remember Watergate.
Wasn't it Butterfield who spilled the beans on the WH tape recorder? As I recall, that was the pebble that started the landslide.
Butterfield was later, during the hearing of the Select Committee that summer. McCord wrote his letter in March.
The Butterfield testimony is one of those “I know exactly where I was at that moment” memories for me. It was Fred Thompson, then a young attorney working as assistant counsel, who asked him the question that prompted Butterfield to spill the beans about the White House taping system.
The press was all over Watergate before Butterfield testified, but his revelation was the nail in the coffin for Nixon.
Even then, through the fight over the tapes, battle over executive privilege, the Saturday Night Massacre, so very much happened before Nixon left office a year later.