Rose Mary Woods
Woods, on the cover of Time Magazine (December 10, 1973)
Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from 1951, through the Watergate scandal, and until the end of his political career. Woods admitted in 1974 grand-jury testimony to having inadvertently erased no more than 5 minutes of the 18 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon audio tapes that were central to the scandal. Later investigators identified five to nine separate erasures. The contents of the gap remain a mystery.
External links
- http://www.dorsai.org/~walts/rwoods.html
- http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/watergate.htm
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30678–2005Jan23.html
Categories: 1917 births | 2005 deaths | Watergate figures