Thursday, February 12, 2026

Flashback: Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, And 18 1/2 Minutes Of Lost Tape -- February 12, 2026

Locator: 49973NIXON.

Wow, wow, wow. A first reading of this article takes me back to Richard Nixon, his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods and her admission of accidentally erasing 18 1/2 minutes of a key Watergate tape.

In The WSJ article

The complaint specifically accused Gabbard of limiting the sharing of the intelligence concerning the conversation for political purposes. Shortly after the intelligence was collected last year, Gabbard met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to discuss the matter. The whistleblower complaint alleges that following that meeting, Gabbard worked to limit the sharing of the intelligence, people familiar with the complaint said.

It doesn't take much to connect the dots and imagine the likely conversation between Susie Wiles and Tulsi Gabbard. 

But, of course, that would simply be one's imagination.

But it certainly takes me back to Rose Mary Woods and the missing 18 1/2 minutes of conversation. 

Wow.