Woods testified in front of a federal grand jury in 1974 that she was using a dictaphone, which had a pedal that would pause the recording when she lifted her foot off it, and she claimed she had erased part of the tape by mistake.“Her explanation was that she was listening to the tape and … the telephone rang,” said Wine-Banks. He said that when he later heard that 18 minutes were missing, "I practically blew my stack. Some have jokingly referred to it as the “Rose Mary Stretch.”“In the picture, you can see her holding on, white-knuckled, to the chair so that she can reach and she’s reclining … to reach the phone,” Wine-Banks said. The tape that had the erasure was the one recorded on June 20, 1972. “By June 23rd [six days after the break-in], he’s plotting with Haldeman how to use the CIA to block the FBI.”Dean explains, however, that “no one was considering the criminal implications of our actions, only the political consequences of inaction.”The botched burglary took place just five months before the 1972 presidential election. Over the years, as new technology became available, After Woods left the federal government in 1976, she moved back to her home state of Ohio and lived as a private citizen, according to her obituary. The short section on the missing minutes of the tapes does not give the date of the missing conversation, nor who was present. She died in 2005 at age 87.Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? “People know when they’re lying and when they’re encouraging others to lie.”“That’s one of the ones that surprised me, when Nixon really gives approval to this whole plan for Magruder to lie to protect himself and Mitchell, to keep the cover-up in place.”Watergate was a perfect storm of deeply unfortunate and poorly handled events, further mishandled “because there was a re-election campaign going on.”“We had become something of a criminal cabal,” Dean writes, “weighing the risks of further criminal action to prevent the worst while hoping something might unexpectedly occur that would resolve the problem.” Amid discovery of the Watergate scandal, several unanswered questions about Richard M. Nixon’s involvement in the break in prevailed. In addition to the line-taps placed on the telephones, small lavalier microphones were installed at various locations around the rooms. by Anonymous: reply 10: 11/22/2009 : No, they were wiped out by a young lovestruck girl singing "I Honestly Love You" into the tape recorder. Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary at her White House desk, demonstrates the "Rose Mary Stretch" which could have resulted in the erasure of part of the Watergate tapes, 1973. ... because a tape recorder is what led to him getting caught in the Watergate Scandal What was the smoking gun tape in the Nixon presidency? The panel was supplied with the Evidence Tape, the seven tape recorders from the Oval Office and Executive Office Building, and the two Uher 5000 recorders. The 18 1/2 minutes of missing Watergate tapes. Watergate Special Prosecu-tor Leon Jaworski to con-duct a grand jury investiga-tion into "the possibility of unlawful destruction of evi-dence." “It’s just those tapes weren’t subpoenaed.”“I think there’s no question that [G. Gordon Liddy] had the impression that he was to go into the DNC,” Dean explains. I told him not to worry that we might be able to control this Watergate thing.”“At that point it’s very much cover-up talk,” says Dean in an interview with The Post.“It wasn’t Haldeman or Erchlichman sitting there saying, ‘Oh boy, did we mess up that job where we tried to break into Watergate,’” Dean says. 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The gap generated questions about what those minutes …