Rose Mary Woods

Rose Mary Woods ( born December 26, 1917 in Sebring, Ohio, † 22 January 2005 in Alliance, Ohio) was an American secretary.

Woods was the secretary of Richard Nixon from 1951 to the end of his political career. She had known him since 1947. During the process in the Watergate scandal she admitted to have been a part of the tape recordings are deleted from the Oval Office, which should be used to clarify the case. They claimed to have entered the wrong pedal their dictation while answering the telephone by mistake. In a reconstruction of events was found, however, that the phone and the voice recorder were a few meters away from each other and she had to stretch a lot to operate both devices simultaneously. Some journalists the descriptions were therefore doubted and they got the nickname "Rose Mary Stretch". Through their statements but only the deletion of five minutes could be resolved at a gap of 18 ½ minutes. As the remaining minutes were lost, is still unclear.

The American author Susan Bernfield treated in their play Stretch Woods' life.

In the U.S. comedy I Love Dick she is played by Ana Gasteyer.