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...known that he had a very low tolerance for alcohol. Yet he began to drink heavily as he sat for hours, usually in the afternoon, in that little office he liked so much across East Executive Avenue-sometimes alone, sometimes with the comforting presence of Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. He grew even moodier than usual, even more withdrawn and indecisive. As his schedule grew more and more erratic, General Alexander
...Ziegler was one of the few close advisers and confidants left to Nixon in his agony. But when the press secretary came to the boss, he was usually bearing bad tidings: the press was demanding to know this or that, impeachment seemed more imminent at the Capitol. "Get out! Get out!" Nixon was heard screaming at his chief spokesman one day. But the next day they sat to gether as though nothing had occurred...
Previous winners have included Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler, as well as the entire Mars candy company. This year the Public Doublespeak Award of the Illinois-based National Council of Teachers of English went to Yasser Arafat, 46, head of the militant Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat's prizewinning formulation: "We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood...
...believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow up in a way that would lead any rational observer to suspect that she would ever break new ground or occupy a particularly unusual position"). Such blathering cannot hide a central fact: from Abplanalp to Ziegler, the actors and extras in the Watergate drama were disproportionately male. Mo Dean grasps this and, while prattling on like an Anita Loos character, manages to make a surprisingly liberated case against the delusions of macho politics...
...certainly aren't likely to say it for less than the $25,000 an hour H.R. "Call me Bob" Haldeman will receive from CBS. So we can forget some of the current stars of the lecture circuit: John W. Dean III, Ronald L. "Over-There-Is-the-Hippopotamus" Ziegler, Bob-Woodward-and-Carl-Bernstein, and Rabbi Baruch Korff. And although Lieut. William L. "Rusty" Calley has now hit the lecture tour as well, even color-slides from Mylai would represent only a footnote to the history that Richardson in his pre-Watergate incarnation helped make...