Word: ziegler
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...pages of Judiciary Committee comparisons of transcripts, more than 4,000 pages of other committee evidence, the 2,217-page draft of the final Senate Watergate committee report, the long arguments before the Supreme Court-would further numb the minds of many Watergate-weary Americans. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler dismissed the Judiciary Committee transcripts as part of "a hyped-up public relations campaign," and the Watergate committee allegations about the Rebozo fund as "warmed-over baloney...
...more eye-opening passages in the Judiciary Committee's version is a 15-minute conversation that does not appear at all in the White House transcripts. It was omitted, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler explained with a straight face last week, because "in our judgment it was of dubious relevance." This incredible assertion was echoed by St. Clair. It contains this comment by the President on March 22,1973: "John Dean . . . put the fires out, almost got the damn thing nailed down till past the election and so forth. We all know what it is. Embarrassing goddamn thing...
...House really believe that by quietly altering -or just not hearing-the taped evidence, it could delude the army of investigators now poring over every detail of the Watergate case? That is hard to believe. But the responsibility for the petty cover-up is less ambiguous. Last week Ron Ziegler reaffirmed that it was Richard Nixon himself who had made the final decision on what material would be released. As the President declared on April 29, when he finally surrendered the transcripts (rather than the tapes) to the Judiciary Committee, "I have spent many hours of my own time personally...
...never easy. The White House and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President produced tough, sweeping statements minimizing the scandal in general and denying individual exposé stories specifically. Three days after the breakin, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refused to comment "on a third-rate burglary attempt." Nixon himself assured the public "categorically" that "no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." Subsequently Ziegler and C.R.P. spokesmen attacked the Post for "character assassination" and "shabby journalism." When the Post told of the wholesale destruction of C.R.P...
...Nixon mentioned the pressure that Charles Colson had attempted to bring on news executives, particularly the TV networks, and observed, "Well, one hell of a lot of people don't give one damn about this issue of suppression of the press." On March 27 Nixon advised Ziegler not to say much to White House reporters about Watergate: "Just get out there and act like your usual cocky, confident self...