YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — In the hours after President Richard Nixon delivered a public Watergate address as scandal exploded, two future presidents called him to express their private support, according to audio recordings released Wednesday.The April 30, 1973, calls with Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. were captured on a secret recording system that Nixon used to tape 3,700 hours of conversations between February 1971 and July 1973.
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