associates. Durin g the testimony, committee counsel Sam Dash promised Miss Woods' lawyer, Charles Rhyne, "I can assure you as much as humanly possible, not a word of this interview will be out.... We will have just one copy 26-27 3i1b17Y By JACK ANDERSON and I will put it in my safe and seal it." WASHINGTON — President Actually, it was Rhyne who President Nixon. The statement, duplicated the transcript and Nixon maintains a mysterious prepared by White House lawyer "private, personal file" of sent it to the committee staff and Fred Buzhardt, was requested in members, thus leading indirectly intimate conversations on connection with an IRS dicta belts which he has cached in to our obtaining it. a top security filing cabinet in the investigation of Rebozo. In a moment of rare levity, White House basement. Assisting Rebozo with his IRS Miss Woods said she herself had problems, she said, is the crack This is the secret testimony of come to call the list of Philadelphia lawyer now also contributors she kept "Rose the President's secretary, Rose helping President Nixon on his Mary Woods, given during a two - Mary's baby." But she said she tax problems, Kenneth Gemmill. had never heard of the "Alpha 4" hour session on February 20 to — Miss Woods' brother, Joe Senate Watergate lawyers. list we described in a recent Woods, an ex - FBI agent and now column because "I never read The President, she swore, a sheriff in Illinois, was Jack Anderson." The list, from time to time, for his own considered for a security job by actually, was not made up at the private, personal files does do White House Watergate gumshoe White House, but, as we reported, some tapes. I have been in the Jack Caulfield. Miss Woods told at the Nixon campaig n Lincoln Sitting Room at times her brother "not to join with them committee. when he will remember unless he was in charge because I At another point, she was asked something from a conversation think my brother is a lot brighter about a Howard Hughes andput on a oictabelt...." than any group Jack Caulfield contribution for the 1972 At that point, apparently would have gotten together." campaign of $16,000, but she said realizing she had let a White Miss Woods was right: Caulfield "I could not tell you" if it were on House cat out of the bag, Miss got caught in a pailful of her own list which, she added, is Woods paused and hastily added, unsavory Watergate activities. often used for deciding on who "such as 'Julie said this or that to — Unlike President Nixon who gets invited to "White House me."' always seemed to make a profit entertaining." She said "those personal, in his dealings with Rebozo, Miss As to other files, she said she private dictabelts...are put in an Woods said she "took a capital was "sure there must be a file on envelope — maybe we get two or gains loss" when she sold her F. Donald Nixon,'' the three at a time — they may be shares in Rebozo's Fishers Island President's brother, at the White three weeks apart. real estate project. She disposed House. "I have never seen it "We have no idea of what is on of them, she thought, through because I have never gone them — they are his own former White House lawyer through the file room," she went personal, private things which Edward Morgan. On. Despite her earlier are not transcribed. They are put While often biting and even disclaimer about reading our in an envelope, sealed up and the sarcastic, Miss Woods' testimony . column, she said she thought she date we received them is put on is full of insights into the White had first learned that the White the envelope." House and the President. At one House was bugging Don Nixon As far as we can determine, point, she illustrated poignantly "in Mr. Anderson's column." this is the first mention of this his mania for saving every scrap The committee lawyers pushed hidden stash of tapes. None, of Nixoniana — a squirreling the peppery Miss Woods hardest according to Watergate away that finally created a tape- on how Rebozo came to tell her of investigators, have ever been and - paper rope which is now the $100,000 Hughes contribution. turned over to the Special hanging him. "Why was he telling you?" Prosecutor, the Senate asked counsel Lenzner. Watergate Committee or the "He saves everything," she "I would not know," she House impeachment panel. said, her tone softening. "He replied. "1 gather in case Pressed during her secret saves place cards, menus even. anything happened to him, he testimony by assistant Watergate One Halloween, we were at Camp would want someone to be aware counsel Terry Lenzner, Miss David and he and Mrs. Nixon of it — that is my guess." She said Woods said the tapes are "kept in invited me to dinner ...The Rebozo also told his lawyer the his filing cabinets" in a secure steward put a colored mask on $100,000 was being kept in a safe area "on the basement floor in each of the three plates — I know deposit box. the West Wing" of the White Mrs. Nixon put hers in the "He told his lawyer, why would House. wastebasket and I did mine," she he have to tell you?" inquired Although not under oath for her said. Dash. testimony, Miss Woods after But Nixon sent his mask to her "1 think he trusted his lawyer reading an 90 - page transcript of to be "sealed in an envelope and but I don't know how much you it, swore to it on Thursday. She put away." He also saved "little trust anyone with that much cash made these other points: notes from Julie — from Tricia," — I would certainly tell two — She has made a detailed all with the same pack rat people," she replied. She said she statement to the Internal diligence that preserved the assumed Rebozo held on to the Revenue Service on the $100,000 Watergate tapes currently being money, given as early as 1969, donation given by Howard used to indict his closest because the Hughes business Hughes to Bebe Rebozo for deals "were in such turmoil.- She said Rebozo eventually returned exactly the same bills he had gotten from Hughes. Her sympathies were all with her "good friend" Rebozo on the IRS investigation, she indicated in describing how she learned of the probe. "It is a big problem for a man trying to run a bank to have an investigation," she explained "He called and we were talking and he said, 'Well, the IRS has even moved in here'...I am sure he was upset as you would be." '