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...wanted to "bring a U-Haul trailer" up to the White House and carry out the presidential files. Members of Congress were bristling at such exaggerations. There was overwhelming sentiment in the Congress that it would not tolerate Nixon's withholding of evidence from the Rodino committee. Nevertheless, Ziegler insisted that the White House would not supply the evidence requested by the Rodino staff until the committee "defines the charges" against Nixon and specifies "what materials are wanted...
Those around Nixon churned on, frenetically occupied in making things seem normal. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler one day walked by the presidential limousine, stopped, came back three paces and carefully straightened out the American flag flown on the right front fender. Jerry Warren, who has faced reporters' hostile questions of corruption and impeachment, made plans for a needed rest with his family. And Good Old Henry Kissinger was aloft around the world in search of peace, dispatching new statements every night that were jubilantly read out loud the next morning in the White House news briefings...
Ronald L. Ziegler. It's tough to make Gerald Warren look like George Washington, but Ziegler does his best. He's also Nixon's chief adviser these days, by many accounts, which means he's managing to add the power of a Haig to the servility of a Friedheim...
...appearance on Capitol Hill was as cheering a night as he has had lately. It may be one of the last such pleasant events in his public life. Watergate has moved far past the point where the President can wish it away with rhetoric or by instructing Ron Ziegler to henceforth take no more questions from the press on Watergate. It is caught up in an unstoppable investigative process, in the courts and in Congress. If it has consumed a year, Nixon's own resistance to disclosure, his dismissal of Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox, and his missing...
...nonprofit, nonpartisan council decided to look into Nixon's complaint. Discussions with Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and Ken Clawson, now director of White House communications, turned up six general areas of alleged TV bias, including coverage of the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi and the "unfavorable" comments that accompanied news reports of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's ouster last October. The council dutifully assembled abstracts of network evening news shows and commentaries that touched on the six subjects and requested that Ziegler then tell it which of the approximately 200 specific segments the President considered "outrageous, vicious, distorted...