Rose Mary Woods (1917 – 2005). Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951, through the end of his political career. Before H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of Nixon's presidential campaign, Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper.
Fiercely loyal to Nixon, Woods claimed responsibility in a 1974 grand jury testimony for inadvertently erasing up to five minutes of the 18 1⁄2 minute gap in a June 20, 1972, audio tape. Her demonstration of how this might have occurred was met with skepticism from those who believed the erasures, from whatever source, to be deliberate.
An expert analysis of the tapes, conducted in January 1974, revealed that there were four or five separate erasures. The contents of the gap remain unknown.
She is the only secretary to get her own Time magazine cover.
- "Rose was lovely, with red hair and creamy skin..." https://archive.nytimes.com/.../first/g/garment-deep.html?
- "Dr. John C. Lungren... remembered Rose as "red-haired, pretty and Irish-Catholic." https://www.theatlantic.com/.../04/the-fifth-nixon/303846/
- "Her bright red hair an indecorous note against diaphanous dark dresses and serpentine boas." http://jfk.hood.edu/.../Watergate.../Watergate%2016135.pdf
- "Rose Mary Woods is in the first seat - the redheaded secretary... " https://books.google.it/books?id=pD_FDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29...
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