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...David G. Ziegler, President...
...then leaked. Jimmy Carter's "I'll whip his ass" (Ted Kennedy's) was orchestrated better than Carter's State of the Union addresses. Even Harry Truman's most famous explosions were in private. Nixon once got angry at reporters, grabbed Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and pushed him toward the panting pack, snapping, "I don't want any press with me." Mild stuff, really; after all, Presidents spend their formative years learning to control their emotions...
...employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people may not get around to reading the Journal. " By contrast, as Agent Evarts Ziegler points out, "Everybody reads the trades -and early...
...disproportionate. How could such a trivial event as a midnight break-in at the Democratic National Committee, an idiotic little piece of ineptitude by five stooges, end by destroying the leader of the most powerful nation in the world? The break-in itself was, said Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, "a third-rate burglary attempt." The cause (a moment of incompetent political espionage) did not seem commensurate with the effect (the resignation of the President), not in the usual Newtonian laws of action and reaction. Watergate was more like an event in quantum physics. A particle of history as minuscule...
...movie stories ("As you can see," joked Reagan, "I'm heavily into anecdotes"). They loved it. Then Speakes invited them to brief the press once again. To a man, they showed their old skills in evasion and diversion. Asked if he had ever had to lie, Ron Ziegler, who was secretary for Richard Nixon, answered with an appropriate grin, "Never knowingly...