Word: ziegler
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...George Washington? Yes, said Wyeth, he had been asked to paint the President's formal portrait. No, said a White House spokesman, no decision had been made. Well, said Wyeth, "I'll stick to painting weeds in Brandywine Valley." Wait, said Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "Wyeth is the man President Nixon would like to do his portrait when the time comes." But the time will not come while Nixon is in office. "There is nothing I despise more than having to sit for a formal portrait," the President told TIME. "It's torture. There...
Richard Nixon's visit to China next month will be the most newsworthy presidential excursion abroad since World War II, but the number of newsmen along to report it will be tightly restricted. After spending a week in China, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler announced last week that the U.S. press contingent will be limited to about 80-roughly one-fourth the number that normally goes to the summit with the President...
...White House was also indignant. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that the rule's violation was "unacceptable." Ziegler discussed the problem with the President and quoted Nixon as saying, "Fine, then let's not have any more backgrounders." However, Ziegler said that he would meet with reporters this week to work out new and binding rules for any future White House backgrounders...
...make deals over the heads of the U.S.'s friends in Europe and Asia when he meets Chou En-lai in February and Leonid Brezhnev in May. "We are not going to Peking and Moscow as a broker for our allies," says White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "but we will have their views in mind as we formulate our positions." A State Department official points out that the meetings will "telegraph to the boys in Moscow and Peking, however gently, that the Western world is not in disarray...
...first round of the President's pre-Peking summit meetings with Western leaders begins this week, when Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau comes to the White House. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler announced that the President and Mrs. Nixon will spend Feb. 21-28 in China, visiting Peking, the capital; Shanghai, China's largest city; and Hangchow, the picturesque winter retreat of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Henry Kissinger, the President's foreign policy adviser, noted that there will doubtless be discussion of other nations between Nixon and the Chinese, but as for the war in Viet...