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Rose Mary Woods dies
| K.F. Raizor | | teleflora | | Rich Clancey | | Rob Petrie | | Janice Brooks | | R H Draney | | AquaGuyLA | | debdav1 at comcast.net |
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| | From: | K.F. Raizor | | Subject: | Rose Mary Woods dies | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:10:29 GMT |
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 | Rose Mary Woods, credited/blamed with the infamous Nixon tape gap, has died
according to the Fox News crawler.
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Things get complicated when you get past 18.
--Statler Brothers
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| | From: | teleflora | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods dies | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:24:27 -0600 |
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"K.F. Raizor" wrote in
message news:VwTId.5026$cZ1.3111@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Rose Mary Woods, credited/blamed with the infamous Nixon tape gap, has
> died
> according to the Fox News crawler.
That's weird. One of the things I remember most about the Watergate trial
coverage is Carson making fun of Woods testimony.
Cindy
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| | From: | Rich Clancey | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods dies | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:54:14 +0000 (UTC) |
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| teleflora done wrote:
>"K.F. Raizor" wrote in
>message news:VwTId.5026$cZ1.3111@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>> Rose Mary Woods, credited/blamed with the infamous Nixon tape gap, has
>> died
>> according to the Fox News crawler.
>That's weird. One of the things I remember most about the Watergate trial
>coverage is Carson making fun of Woods testimony.
One of the things I remember most is Rosemary Woods taking the
blame for what everybody knew was not her fault. They made her
demonstrate how she could have kept her foot on the dictating machine
pedal and answer the phone at the same time, which I think was her
explanation for how it happened, and they forced her to demonstrate a
completely undignified posture to prove their point. A real low mark
for all the Distinguished Gentlemen on the panel. I wonder if she
ever got an apology...
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rich clancey
Mathematical Jiggery-Pokery is Truth
And Truth is Mathematical Jiggery-Pokery.
That is all ye need to know.
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| | From: | Rob Petrie | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods, 87, dies | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:05:40 GMT |
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"K.F. Raizor" wrote in
message news:VwTId.5026$cZ1.3111@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Rose Mary Woods, credited/blamed with the infamous Nixon tape gap, has
> died
> according to the Fox News crawler.
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> (There's an 18-minute gap in this message)
She died on the wrong day to get publicity.
BTW, most people now think she covered up the erasure in taking the
blame for a well-known un-mechanically inept man: Richard Nixon.
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| | From: | Janice Brooks | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods, 87, dies | | Date: | 24 Jan 2005 02:58:13 GMT |
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| > She died on the wrong day to get publicity.
> BTW, most people now think she covered up the erasure in taking the
>blame for a well-known un-mechanically inept man: Richard Nixon.
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Anyone listen to Alices Resterant revisited?
BUS Janice
There's one less Philidelphia lawyer in old Philidelphia tonight---Woody
Guthrie
Reno Blues Merle Haggard
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| | From: | R H Draney | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods, 87, dies | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 19:14:26 -0800 |
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| Janice Brooks filted:
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>> She died on the wrong day to get publicity.
>> BTW, most people now think she covered up the erasure in taking the
>>blame for a well-known un-mechanically inept man: Richard Nixon.
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>Anyone listen to Alices Resterant revisited?
I had the same thought when I heard about Ms Woods' passing....
Hey, if you're gonna work for a dick, what do you expect will happen to you?...r
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| | From: | AquaGuyLA | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods, 87, dies | | Date: | 24 Jan 2005 08:34:15 GMT |
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| Nixon Secretary Rose Mary Woods Dies
By MARK WILLIAMS (c) The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President
Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that
had an 18 1/2-minute gap, has died. She was 87.
Woods died Saturday night at a nursing home in Alliance, about 60 miles south
of Cleveland, funeral home owner Roger Ruzek said Sunday. He did not know the
cause of death.
The 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.
Woods, who moved to northeastern Ohio after leaving the disgraced president's
staff in 1976, never talked much about her years with the only American
president to resign the office.
But Nixon considered her a member of the family. He wrote in his memoirs that
it was Woods he asked to inform first lady Pat Nixon and his daughters in 1974
that he had decided to resign on August 9.
"My decision was irrevocable, and I asked her to suggest that we not talk about
it any more when I went over for dinner,'' Nixon said.
When the time came for the family to privately say goodbye to Nixon before he
climbed aboard the helicopter headed for Air Force One, Woods stood by with
Mrs. Nixon, daughters Tricia and Julie, and their husbands.
"Rose ... is as close to us as family,'' Nixon said.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox said in a statement Sunday that
Woods will be remembered for her devotion to the country and their family.
"She was a cherished friend to us and to all who knew her. None of us will
forget how she served her country with unswerving loyalty and dedication
throughout her entire career,'' the statement read.
Woods, the granddaughter of an Irish stowaway, was born in Sebring, 20 miles
southwest of Youngstown, on Dec. 26, 1917, and was raised in a strict Roman
Catholic family.
She worked as a pottery company secretary in Sebring, then moved to Washington
to become a typist on Capitol Hill, where she caught the eye of a rising
Republican star, Congressman Richard Nixon of California.
Nixon biographer Jonathan Aitken said the two hit it off immediately. Nixon,
elected to the Senate in 1950, hired Woods as his secretary.
"She was intelligent, literate, clam-like in her discretion. Technically
superb, she possessed the high-speed skills of shorthand and typing necessary
to keep up with her boss's often frantic and always demanding schedule,''
Aitken wrote.
"One of the reasons why Woods struck up such a good rapport with her boss was
that their characters were similar. Disciplined in her emotions yet passionate
in her convictions, Woods was intuitive, protective and obsessive about
privacy.''
Nixon defended his loyal employee when fingers pointed at Woods, who had spent
weeks transcribing subpoenaed White House tapes.
"I know I did not do it,'' Nixon said. "And I completely believe Rose when she
says that she did not do it.''
She denied she caused the full 18 1/2-minute gap, testifying later that she
inadvertently erased four or five minutes. The phone rang while she was
transcribing the tape, she said.
She accidentally hit the record button. A picture in which she demonstrated
her action - stretching one foot forward while reaching back to get the phone -
became one of the most famous images of the era.
A panel of experts set up in the 1970s by federal judge John Sirica, who
presided over the Watergate criminal trials, concluded that the erasures were
done in at least five - and perhaps as many as nine - separate and contiguous
segments. The panel never figured out what was erased.
Who erased the rest of the tape? No one knows.
Alexander Haig, who succeeded Haldeman as chief of staff, blamed the gap on
"sinister forces.'' Experts later examined the tape and found as many as nine
deliberate erasures. They said Woods could not have done the whole thing.
In an interview on the 25th anniversary of the 1972 break-in, Woods said she
was rarely asked about Watergate anymore.
"Every once in a while I get notes and things from some of the people who were
with us, but not much,'' she said.
"Everybody gets sort of separated.''
01/23/05 22:26 EST
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| | From: | debdav1 at comcast.net | | Subject: | Re: Rose Mary Woods dies | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 12:36:45 -0800 |
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| By MARK WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
January 23, 2005, 3:15 PM EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President
Nixon who admitted to inadvertently erasing part of a crucial Watergate
tape, had 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 18 1/2-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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