page_title: Clerical error
hierarchical_section_title: Clerical error
caption_attribution_description: Rose Mary Woods (1917-2005), Richard Nixon's secretary.
context_page_description: A clerical error is an error on the part of an office worker, often a secretary personal assistant. It is a phrase which can also be used as an excuse to deflect blame away from specific individuals, such as high-powered executives, and instead redirect it to the more anonymous clerical staff.
  A clerical error in a legal document is called a scrivener's error.
context_section_description: A clerical error is an error on the part of an office worker, often a secretary personal assistant. It is a phrase which can also be used as an excuse to deflect blame away from specific individuals, such as high-powered executives, and instead redirect it to the more anonymous clerical staff.
  A clerical error in a legal document is called a scrivener's error.
caption: Rose Mary Woods demonstrating the "Rose Mary stretch" by which she claimed that she accidentally erased 18½ minutes of the "Watergate tapes" during a phone call.
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