Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951 through the end of his political career.

To escape the memories of her hometown, she moved to Washington, D.C. in 1943, working in a variety of federal offices until she met Nixon while she was a secretary to the House Select Committee on Foreign Aid.

[5] Woods was President Nixon's personal secretary, the same position that she held from the time that he hired her until the end of his lengthy political career.

[9] Accompanying Nixon to San Clemente following his resignation, she later returned to Washington and worked as a secretary to a Republican member of Congress.

[citation needed] Woods died on January 22, 2005, at McCrea Manor, a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio, near her hometown.