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They were having a briefing in the White House and Ron Ziegler, the czar of non-information, was giving out no answers to a whole range of bitchy questions about the budget, peace and bugging, when Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News glanced out the White House window and blinked. There was Nixon striding by, alone, eyes on the middle distance, the picture of a bothered President...
...Here is a footnote to illustrate how in the 19th century the power of the Speaker of the House of Representatives extended into the President's bedroom. During the Administration of President Benjamin Harrison, the Speaker of the House. "Czar" Tom Reed, refused congressional authority for Mrs. Harrison's plan to expand the living quarters in the White House because...
President had refused to appoint Czar Reed's candidate for collector of customs in Portland, Maine...
...which master-minded the Centennial celebrations, prepares to retire. Daniel Swanson '74, is already prepared to take over the business of running the paper, as soon as the last murmurs of the festival fade away. The people who made the ceremonies possible--Andrew P. Corty '74, the hundredth anniversary czar Pat Sorrento, the shop foreman whose patience with dilatory copy makes Job seem a piker; Miss Eunice Ficket, the Business Board's conscience, soul and spirit, who has kept the details running; and those whose names have been forgotten--all will pick up the pattern of their lives after they...
...ground, Ron Ziegler, the youthful Press Secretary with the Hollywood profile and sideburns as hardy as Zoysia, was about to be made czar of the whole presidential image, a reward for his four flawless years of stewardship over the White House policy of non-information. He appeared in the press room in a suit of daring plaid and good-humoredly avoided answering questions on peace and bombing. He also showed up on a Virginia indoor tennis court in an "Izod outfit," the supreme quality in tennis attire. Coordinated Izods can cost $50. His play was just as good...