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- Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon’s faithful personal secretary, shows what came to be known as the “Rose Mary Stretch,” where she claimed that working controls several feet apart led to the erasure of about five minutes of the famous 18 1/2 –minute gap.
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Nov 7, 2017 · The press dubbed this unlikely move, “The Rose Mary Stretch.” Rose Mary Woods demonstrates the stretch that supposedly led to the deletion of a portion of the Watergate tapes.
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Oct 31, 2012 · Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon’s faithful personal secretary, shows what came to be known as the “Rose Mary Stretch,” where she claimed that working controls several feet apart led to the erasure of about five minutes of the famous 18 1/2 –minute gap.
Jan 24, 2005 · Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s loyal secretary who took initial responsibility for erasing part of a key White House audiotape during the Watergate investigation, has died. She was 87....
Jun 14, 2017 · During her testimony, Woods claimed she may have caused a 4- or 5-minute gap in the tape, but nothing more. A panel set up in the 1970s by federal Judge John Sirica, who presided over the Watergate criminal trials, concluded the erasures were done in at least five separate and contiguous segments.
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Jan 24, 2005 · Rose Mary Woods, 87, the Nixon White House secretary whose improbable stretch was supposed to account for part of an 18½-minute gap in a crucial Watergate tape, died Saturday at a nursing home in...
Aug 12, 2001 · The conversation took place on June 20, 1972, three days after the break-in. According to Mr. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, the erasure occurred while she was transcribing the tape.
Woods demonstrates the "Rose Mary Stretch", which purportedly led to the erasure of 18-plus minutes of the Watergate tapes. An expert analysis of the tapes conducted in January 1974 revealed that there were four or five separate erasures, and perhaps as many as nine.
