Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon secluded himself in Aspen Cabin, his favorite, rustic four-bedroom retreat, and summoned five aides: St. Clair, Haig, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Speechwriters Raymond Price and Patrick Buchanan. Arriving in the afternoon, they worked on the release of the confessional transcripts. Assembled in Laurel, the camp's main dining lodge, the distraught aides were diverted by larger worries. St. Clair and Buchanan saw the President's position as doomed and suggested that he must consider resigning. Haig and Ziegler shuttled between the two buildings, expressing these concerns. "I wish you hadn't said that," Nixon...
...series of events, actual and possible, staggered the President's aides. Just after the Judiciary Committee voted the first article of impeachment, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler flatly predicted that the full House would reject the articles of impeachment. As the week went on, however, the White House's show of public optimism evaporated. On Friday, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren repeated the official line that the President believed the facts did not support the allegations of misconduct, but conceded that Nixon was "in the role of underdog." In the privacy of their offices, however, many White House aides...
...raided by state officials; among other brutalizing instruments, they found shackles and a brown leather whip. One nurse said she had treated numerous bruises from chains. Von Hilsheimer told TIME Correspondent Joe Kane that his young charges were "miserable, hateful, violent bastards." The school's former headmaster, Ronald E. Nowicki, could also be violent. In a fit of anger he punched a female student so hard that he ruptured her eardrums...
...Actor John Wayne, a supporter of the President, was being unfairly treated by IRS, Caulfield secured tax-status reports from Acree on such other cinema celebrities as Richard Boone, Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra, as well as on California Governor Ronald Reagan. After comparing these reports with Wayne's treatment by IRS, Caulfield concluded that "the Wayne complaint ... does not appear to be strong enough to be pursued." The same Acree-to-Caulfield connection gave the White House information on a 1971 IRS investigation of the Rev. Billy Graham's taxes...
After paying tribute to his colleagues and to the committee staff, Ervin was presented with a 10-lb. sausage by Committee Counsel Samuel Dash, in recognition of White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's denunciation of the committee's special report on Rebozo as "warmed-over baloney." Then Sam Ervin delivered a short speech, quoting right and left from his favorite writings, and it was over...