Nixon not responsible for tape gap, lawyer says

On Sept. 22, 1975, former Pres­id­ent Nix­on’s law­yer dis­closed to a three-judge fed­er­al court that Nix­on had denied re­spons­ib­il­ity for the 18 1/2-minute gap in a po­ten­tially cru­cial Wa­ter­gate tape dur­ing secret grand jury testi­mony. Be­low is The Times’ story from the fol­low­ing day.