Word: ziegler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speech. On Monday, Ziegler announced the stunning staff changes in Washington. Nixon remained at Camp David to craft his TV speech with Writer Price. He arrived at his Oval Office just 90 seconds before air time, looking and sounding nervous. A bust of Abraham Lincoln and a photo of Nixon's family had been placed within camera range. The occasion was reminiscent of Nixon's celebrated Checkers speech of 1952, in which he admitted that he had drawn on a secret $18,000 campaign fund (an almost touchingly modest figure by current measurement) that had been donated by California political...
...occurred at the Watergate apartment and office complex when he read news reports. "I was appalled at this senseless, illegal action" and was "shocked" to learn that members of the re-election committee "were apparently among those guilty." That does not explain why he authorized Press Secretary Ziegler, just two days after the June 17 breakin, to dismiss it as "a third-rate burglary attempt...
...General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole Jr., another J. Walter Thompson product and a top Ehrlichman assistant since 1969, will take on added...
...been paranoiac on the subject. Until the past fortnight, the White House was treating journalistic pursuit of the Watergate story as though it were malicious or downright unpatriotic. In his April 30 speech, belatedly but generously, the President actually praised the press for its work in exposing Watergate. Ron Ziegler picked up the cue the next day and, under some prodding, apologized for his contemptible attacks on the Washington Post. Amateur Zieglers, Agnews, Haldemans, Ehrlichmans all over the country will have to take notice...
...White House conceded defeat poignantly, if rather belatedly. First the President, in his televised address, credited "a vigorous free press" for helping to reveal the truth. After the speech, he told reporters to "continue to give me hell whenever you think I'm wrong." Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler the next day publicly apologized to the Washington Post for his past denunciations of the paper's Watergate coverage. Spiro Agnew followed with his own peace offering by lamenting the "unfortunate hostility" that has existed between officials and journalists. Both sides, he said, should "put aside visceral reaction and engage...