my mistake: it was on tape. was thinking of something else.
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from https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1988/summer/haldeman.html :
""The sound-activated system remained in place in the president's offices until it was finally shut down on July 18,1973, two days after Alexander Butterfield told the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities—the so-called Ervin Committee—of its existence."
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165954
https://crimereads.com/nixon-recording-devices/
http://nixontapes.org/origin.html