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