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DIED. RONALD ZIEGLER, 63, President Nixon's defiant, clueless press aide during the Watergate scandal; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif. Ziegler was only 29 when Richard Nixon sent him to manage the hostilities in the White House press room. "Ron Zig-liar," some reporters called him, but the lies Ziegler told were mostly the President's, given that he didn't really know what was going on in the White House. When Nixon packed himself off to exile in 1974, Ziegler went with him. It was as if he didn't know what else...
DIED. CLARK MACGREGOR, 80, moderate G.O.P. Congressman from Minnesota turned Nixon aide; in Pompano Beach, Fla. As chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the President just after the Watergate break-in, he oversaw the strategy that led to Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972. Never implicated in Watergate, MacGregor later said he had been "misled, deceived ...and lied to repeatedly." After the scandal, he left politics for good...
DIED. RON ZIEGLER, 63, former press secretary to U.S. President Richard Nixon who famously dismissed the Watergate break-in as a "third-rate burglary," of a heart attack; in San Diego. Ziegler publicly stood by Nixon even after Watergate led to his downfall in 1974. But according to former White House counsel John Dean, Ziegler could have been "Deep Throat", the mysterious source who helped the Washington Post expose the scandal. "It's necessary to fudge sometimes," Ziegler once said about his work as presidential spokesman, "but I never walked out on that podium and lied...
Long out of office, Richard Nixon mused one day about that era and the importance of our space achievements. Nixon was President when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, a legacy of sorts from Kennedy. "Just think," he said in that interview, "how miserable it would have been had we not had the space success when we were in the midst of Vietnam, then Watergate and all that...
...scientific director of the U.S. Army Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Md., for 14 years, Housewright oversaw the development of anthrax spores, botulinum toxin and viruses such as encephalitis and yellow fever, with the intent of using them against U.S. enemies. The lab closed in 1970 when President Richard Nixon banned offensive biological weapons...