Posted on 01/23/2005 12:53:36 PM PST by wjersey
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who admitted to inadvertently erasing part of a crucial Watergate tape, has died. She was 87.
Woods died Saturday night at a nursing home in Alliance, Roger Ruzek, owner of a funeral home in Sebring, said Sunday. He did not know the cause of death.
The 18½-minute gap in the tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation between Richard Nixon and chief of staff H.R. Haldeman was critical to the question of what Nixon knew about the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex three days earlier — and when he knew it.
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I was thinking that Jerry might go not too long ago, but the swelling from his meds seems to have subsided and he is looking much better these days..
Swwwweeet post BUMP!
I wasn't talking about the left. I was referring to the weeping posters here at FR. The ones who spend their days bad mouthing bad people and when they croak, pray for the fact that they lived life as a scumbag!
Not only thick syrup but gallons of 409.
I remember Johnny said something about how Mrs. Wood did a double back flip into a waste basket to demonstrate how she accidentally erased the tape.
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