Word: ziegler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ZIEGLER'S calling Watergate a "third-rate burglary" was comical, but hardly the administration's most embarrassing Watergate explanation. The Ervin Committee has heard a host of implausibilities--from Bernard Barker's hope that CIA would again invade Cuba to "Bob" Haldeman's suspicions that communist governments were underwriting the Democrats...
...ZIEGLER'S calling Watergate a "third-rate burglary" was comical, but hardly the administration's most embarrassing Watergate explanation. The Ervin Committee has heard a host of implausibilities--from Bernard Barker's hope that CIA would again invade Cuba to "Bob" Haldeman's suspicions that communist governments were underwriting the Democrats...
...seemingly jaunty Vice President took place in the Oval Office of the White House. It lasted two hours-the longest discussion between the two men since they took office in January 1969. They talked alone until the end, when they were joined briefly by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. The purpose of the meeting, said Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, was to allow Agnew to bring the President up to date on "his legal troubles in Maryland...
...April in Orange County's conservative Santa Ana Register, which claimed that federal investigators were looking into the possibility that unreported funds from the 1968 G.O.P. campaign were used to help buy Nixon's $1.5 million dream home in San Clemente. At the time, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler called the story "malicious, ill-founded and scurrilous." Although the new accounting did not document the source of personal funds used in Nixon's various transactions, it demonstrated fairly convincingly that he neither used nor had need of illicit funds...
...reacting to the accumulated strains of many months. There was the President, striding up the ramp toward the Rivergate convention center in New Orleans, pursued by a cluster of reporters and TV cameramen. Suddenly, his face contorted in a burst of anger, he turned on his press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, who was following him. He seized Ziegler roughly by both shoulders, spun him round, and gave him a hard shove in the direction of his pursuers. "I don't want any press with me," he snapped. "And you take care...