Word: ziegler
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Room for Humor. Warren's briefing-room manner differs markedly from Ziegler's. His horn-rimmed glasses and pipe lend a thoughtful air to his comments; he pauses to consider questions before replying and accepts hostile queries without resorting to Ziegler's huffiness. Ziegler's programmed manner leaves little room for humor. Warren is more unbuttoned. Failing to hear a question from NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, he quipped: "Richard, will you speak in your on-the-air voice?" When he first began subbing for Ziegler, Warren would open with a crack at his own expense...
...Warren has already tripped into the contradictions that plagued Ziegler; it was he who first denied John Dean's claim of 35 to 40 meetings with Nixon this spring, then admitted that the meetings had occurred. He added that the White House would not release the logs, later had to shift again to say that the material would be turned over to Senate investigators...
...Like Ziegler, Warren insists that he has full access to White House information, as well as the President. But Dean's testimony last week suggests that Ziegler's easy access to members of the Nixon inner circle did not prevent him from being deceived and in turn deceiving. Despite his personal charm, Warren can help restore White House credibility only if he gets a lot of assistance-and truth-from...
...respond to news reports that Dwight Chapin, then the President's appointments secretary, had hired Lawyer Donald Segretti and directed him in political sabotage. John Dean last week supplied the Ervin committee with a transcript of a "practice session" in which four officials coached Ronald Ziegler...
Impersonating both hostile reporters and Ziegler himself, John Ehrlichman, Chapin, Dean and Special Presidential Counsel Richard A. Moore alternately badgered Ziegler with expected questions and brainstormed lines of counterattack. Although the transcript does not always identify the speaker, most of the participants in the rehearsal urged that Ziegler discredit the stories as politically motivated. At one point, Chapin-the participant with the most at stake-struck the tone he thought Ziegler should take: "I am not going to dignify desperation politics...