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Aziz said the driver in the
Charger crossed over a double
yellow line and collided with the
uninvolved driver in a white
Honda Accord. Aziz said the
uninvolved driver was injured
and later died.
The driver of the Charger has
been arrested, Aziz said.
The Office of the Attorney
General’s Independent
Investigations Division is
investigating the crash alongside
Maryland State Police. The Prince
George’s County Police
Department will conduct an
internal investigation upon the
conclusion of the state
investigation, Aziz said.
The officer has been placed on
administrative suspensionpending the investigation results,
Aziz said.
— Jasmine HiltonTHE DISTRICTMan tries to kidnap
child, police sayA man tried to kidnap a child
Tuesday afternoon in
Georgetown, D.C. police said.
The incident unfolded about
2:30 p.m. in the 3100 block of M
Street NW, not far from the
waterfront area. According to a
police report, the man walked up
to three women — one of whom
had a child — and “started
talking” to the child.
The women and the childstarted to walk away to a nearby
bus stop. While they were waiting
at the stop, the man walked up to
them and again “started a
conversation” with the women
and the child, a police report said.
One of the woman took out her
phone to check when the bus
would come and as she was doing
that, police said, the man picked
up the boy and ran off with him.
She chased after the man “yelling
and screaming” before the man
put the boy down and fled, police
said.
Police said no one was
seriously hurt in the incident.
A nyone with information is
asked to call police at 202-727-
9099.
— Dana HedgpethMARYLANDPerson killed after
driver flees policeA m otorist was killed after a
crash involving a nother driver
fleeing an attempted police stop
Wednesday morning, Prince
George’s County police said.
Police said the person who
died was the driver of a vehicle
that was not involved in the
traffic stop in the Upper
Marlboro area.
Police Chief Malik Aziz s aid
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saw two vehicles, a blue vehicle
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anniversary of the
Watergate break-
in, it’s time to
meet the man
who sold all that
blank reel-to-reel
tape to the White
House, 18½
minutes of which
became famous
for what wasn’t on it, not what
was. His name is Fred Burke.
He’s 89 and he keeps the
subpoena he received from
Watergate investigators framed
on the wall of his Florida home.
“I started with Kennedy ,”
Fred said. “When Johnson took
over, we did a lot of things for
him.”
And Nixon? We’ll get to him.
Fred was born in Washington.
His father worked at a poultry
market on M Street. The family
was very poor.
“I never actually had a bed
until I was almost 13,” Fred said
over the phone from Palm Beach
Gardens, where he lives with his
wife, Iris. “I slept on the couch.”
But Fred had a couple of
things going for him.
“The thing that my father said
to me when I was growing up
was, ‘We don't have anything,
but there’s one thing you have
that nobody can ever take away
from you.’ That was my word.”
Fred was honest and he was a
good salesman. In 1958, he co-
founded a consumer stereo store
called Audio Center.
From his store on Fairmount
Avenue in Bethesda he would
eventually count among his
customers Jack Kent Cooke ,
Abe Pollin and assorted
politicians.
Audio Center was half of
Fred’s work life. His other half
was Professional Products, the
firm he founded in the late ’60s
with partners Charles Faulkner
and Carter Kaufmann to focus
on government clients.
Professional Products became a
preferred supplier for the
technical department of the
Secret Service, run by a man
named Al Wong.
Fred sold the Secret Service
cassette recorders that could be
installed inside briefcases. He
sold them Sennheiser
microphones the size of a dime.
He sold the White House three
televisions that were installed
side by side in a console so
Lyndon B. Johnson could watch
various newscasts
simultaneously.
“He wanted to see everything
going on at the same time,” Fred
said. “He had a switcher so he
could switch the audio.”Fred’s company sold the
White House the eight-track
tape player that was installed on
Air Force One. And when LBJ
wanted to listen to country
music on a flight to his Texas
ranch, it was Fred whom theSecret Service woke up with a
2 a.m. phone call to find out
where they could get the albums.
Fred told them to contact the
record distributor at 7 a.m.,
provide the list of albums, then
send someone over to pick themup.
By the time the eight-tracks
were delivered to Andrews Air
Force Base, Air Force One had
taken off. Fred said they were
flown to Texas on Air Force Two.
“To me, that was the biggest
waste of money ever,” he said.
At the same time Fred was
selling equipment to the Secret
Service, he was selling stereo
gear to customers from the
Soviet Embassy. The CIA asked
him to report what they bought.
As for that reel-to-reel
audiotape, what the Nixon
White House wanted was the
tape in blank white boxes,
without the manufacturer’s
name on the outside. And they
wanted it in massive quantities,
from 200 to 300 reels per order.
“For the archives,” Fred said he
was told.
“I knew they were recording
everything, but obviously that’s
not my business,” he said. “Then
I get a call: ‘ Rose Mary Woods
needs a tape recorder.’ They
want a real good one, not a
normal tape recorder. They
order a Uher tape recorder.”
This was so Woods, Nixon’s
secretary, could transcribe all
conversations recorded in the
Oval Office.
As you will have heard,
Republican operatives werecaught breaking in to the
Democratic National Committee
headquarters. What did Nixon
know and when did he know it?
Well, one tape had 18^1 / 2 minutes
of silence, a gap that Woods
described as “accidental.” The
Secret Service asked Fred if that
was possible.
“My response to the Secret
Service was ‘bull----. There’s no
accident with what happened
there.’ ”
Some 181 / 2 minutes may have
been missing, but what
remained was pretty bad: “What
I meant is, you could get a
million dollars,” Nixon had said.
“And you could get it in cash. I
know where it could be gotten.”
When Fred was subpoenaed in
1974, he supplied the business
records he was asked for.
Investigators were especially
interested in whether Nixon
friend Bebe Rebozo had bought
anything. (He hadn’t.)
“I always felt privileged to be
part of whatever I did,” said
Fred, who retired to Florida in- “I was just very proud —
based on my upbringing and so
forth — that I had the
opportunity to do that.”
And Fred played his small
part in America’s history.
“Once he turned over the
tapes, it was all over.”
Meet the man who sold the blank recording tape to the Nixon White House
John
Kelly's
Washington
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