Rose Mary Woods, 87, Nixon Loyalist for Decades, Dies By PHILIP SHENON January 24, 2005 WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Richard M. Nixon who was at the center of one of the great mysteries of Watergate after 18½ minutes of a crucial White House tape were erased, died Saturday near her hometown in northeastern Ohio. She was 87. A spokesman for a local funeral home said Ms. Woods died at a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio. Ms. Woods, who worked for Mr. Nixon for decades and joined him in exile in California after...