Rose Mary Woods
Rose Mary Woods (born December 26, 1917 in Sebring , Ohio , † January 22, 2005 in Alliance , Ohio) was an American secretary .
Woods was Richard Nixon's secretary from 1951 until the end of his political career. She had known him since 1947. During the Watergate scandal trial , she admitted that she had deleted some of the tapes from the Oval Office that were supposed to be used to investigate the case. She said she accidentally stepped on the wrong pedal on her dictation machine while answering a phone call . During a reconstruction of the event, however, it was found that the telephone and the dictation machine were a few meters apart and she had to stretch a lot in order to operate both machines at the same time. Some journalists therefore questioned the descriptions and she was nicknamed "Rose Mary Stretch". Their statements could only clarify the deletion of five minutes with a gap of 18½ minutes in total. How the remaining minutes were lost is still unclear.
The American author Susan Bernfield dealt with Stretch Woods' life in her play .
She is played by Ana Gasteyer in the US comedy I love Dick .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Watergate Files - Battle for the Tapes
- ↑ Review of a performance of the piece in: The Philadelphia Inquirer ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
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| SURNAME | Woods, Rose Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American secretary to Richard Nixon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sebring , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2005 |
| Place of death | Alliance , Ohio |