For a short time in 1974, the name Rose Mary Woods was on every lip. Woods was the loyal secretary to President Richard Nixon and gave the mea culpa for 5 minutes of an 18 1/2-minute gap in an Oval Office audio tape that very likely held incriminating statements made by Nixon and his advisers regarding the Watergate scandal.
Woods demonstrated for the cameras how she stretched back to answer a phone, thereby taking her foot off a pedal that controlled the tape with which she was working.
Most people admired her personal loyalty but doubted her veracity.
Woods was born in Ohio and moved to the nation's capital after the wartime death of her fiance. She began working for Nixon in 1950 and remained with him until his 1974 resignation from the presidency.
Woods died in 2005 at age 87.
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