Word: ziegler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know the specifics. Nixon's own hunch was that Moscow would postpone the meeting. But after an initial silence came the relatively mild Soviet denunciation of the President's move, followed a few days later by short notices in Russian newspapers quoting Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as saying that the President was preparing to leave for Moscow. After that, the Soviet press made it seem like a great achievement for Russia to press on with the summit despite "the reactionary forces," as Izvestia put it, that were seeking "to undermine peace." Rumors persist in the West that...
...fill J. Edgar Hoover's shoes. In order to avoid turning the succession into a political issue during an election year, he named only an acting director. If Nixon wins reelection, he will settle on a permanent successor after November. If he loses, White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler suggested last week, he will leave the selection to the new President...
Middle America was treated to a first-class TV farce. The commentators nightly huddled together with nothing to say, waiting for Press Secretary Ziegler to bail them out once again with another vapid press release praising the Chinese hospitality the analogy of the week award was given to one clever reporter who thought that China was more intriguing than the moon. But every one agreed that Erik Sevareid topped it with his continuous mane mutterings that the Chinese educational system was calculated to destroy the minds of Chinese youth. (Sound familiar?) But the Nixons did try to show their appreciation...
Members of what Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refers to as "the writing press" were worse off. This was partly because the White House favored television and partly because Ziegler, as TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey cabled, seemed to "treat writers as an unnecessary evil." Print journalists complained that they were alone while the TV reporters came in teams with large supporting staffs. Some complaints seemed somewhat petty: TV network staffers were provided with cars, while writing journalists had to use buses...
Certainly the White House staff was only too happy to agree with Chinese wishes to withhold information on all top-level discussions. After the first Nixon-Mao meeting, Ziegler would not even pinpoint the location of Mao's home in Peking, or describe the refreshments. "Absurd," growled the New York Times''s Max Frankel, who was told it would be "fair to assume that tea was served." Arrangements for filing cables were fine. Phone calls were put through in a matter of minutes. But what...