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...plight of the weary pack, however, is minor compared to the afflication that has palsied the White House campaign press corps since 1969--gelded by the tactics of another White House martinet, press secretary Ronald Ziegler. The pressure to remain a conventional and submissive mass is crippling on Pennsylvania Avenue: If the writers don't stay in line, they risk Ziegler's "ominous pat on the back." After that they might expect to receive tax audits, be ignored at press conferences, or be manipulated into squabbles over scoops with colleagues from their own paper. When Clark Mollenhoff...
Crouse comes off as a wayward idealist here, stopping at the typewriters of various press leaders to ask why they don't mutiny. They inevitably pause, deliver mealy-mouthed excuses, then resume work. Crouse stresses that again it is only from the outside that one might foil the Ziegler screen...
Never before the Nixon Administration have so many public servants served so brief a time in office. Of the top White House aides, only three have stayed on the job without a break: Henry Kissinger, Patrick Buchanan, Ronald Ziegler. Of the original Cabinet, only George Shultz remains, and he has shifted from Labor to Treasury. Nixon now holds the record for Cabinet appointments: 31 in five years; a close competitor is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed 25, but then F.D.R. served more than three terms...
...Fred Buzhardt had previously said, and contained frequent memory lapses remarkable in a bright West Point graduate who was noted for his organizational competence as Henry Kissinger's longtime aide. For example, he could not recall what he discussed with Nixon, Rose Mary Woods and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler during a 24-minute conference the evening of the day he told Nixon that the gap on the tape lasted for 18 minutes-just three weeks before his courtroom appearance. Often Haig fidgeted, toying with his glasses or twisting his West Point class ring. At one point he protested...
Warren conceded that both Nixon and Ziegler occasionally talked with Haldeman, who now Lives in Los Angeles, about presidential affairs. In court, however, Haig declared: "Haldeman does not influence what we do in the White House...