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That leaves reporters with Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, 30, whose approach to disseminating information is as conservative as Barry Goldwater's politics. Twice daily, Ron Ziegler faces 40-odd questioners in the crowded White House briefing room. His aim is the straightforward presentation of the news that the White House wants presented -no more, no less. That usually means explaining that a program is under discussion, a decision has not yet been made, an event is being planned. The reporters want to know why, what it all means, who said what to whom. Ziegler rarely tells them. Last week...
...Columnist Joseph Alsop; Lyndon Johnson in the early days regularly called in James Reston of the New York Times for private chats and personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held no public news conference since the middle of June. Under orders and by inclination, Nixon's White House advisers are not much more communicative than, say, the average...
...things he sat in on." Ziegler's performance is due in part to the tight leash that leads from his neck to the Oval Office. As sometime policymakers themselves, Eisenhower's James Hagerty and L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers were allowed latitude in talking to the press. But this is Ziegler's first big Government job. He left a Los Angeles advertising firm to work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings...
That Grin. A certain distance between reporters and the press secretary is probably inevitable. "There can never be a total meshing," says Ziegler. Yet he is personally popular with newsmen, who consider him a decent fellow in difficult circumstances. As a technician in planning the care and feeding of reporters on presidential trips, Ziegler is rated four stars. The smallest details-down to what sort of wardrobe is necessary-are handled with the smoothness that characterized the Nixon campaign...
...earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue was really in their hands. Speaking two days after the first Keeler installment ran (though without referring to it by name), he urged Britain's press to police itself and not to try to profit from a man's "sins, follies...