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Tape Erasure Explanation

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973Date range
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Chronological records

1973

Rose Mary Woods26 November 1973

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Explains that she accidentally erased part of a June 1972 presidential recording while transcribing it, though the full eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap remains unexplained.

Names involved

Rose Mary Woods

Provenance

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