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...White House officials and reporters that is absent now. In those days, we all gathered around Press Secretary George Reedy's cluttered desk and jostled for space in his cramped office. Now, we assemble in a large, well-appointed briefing room in the West Wing, where either Ron Ziegler or Gerald Warren - often as much as an hour behind schedule - mounts a platform, stands behind a lectern, makes the daily announcements and accepts questions." Says Fischer: "Johnson used to roam frequently around the West Wing, call reporters into his office for impromptu talks, and hold 'man-in-motion...
...reacting to the accumulated strains of many months. There was the President, striding up the ramp toward the Rivergate convention center in New Orleans, pursued by a cluster of reporters and TV cameramen. Suddenly, his face contorted in a burst of anger, he turned on his press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, who was following him. He seized Ziegler roughly by both shoulders, spun him round, and gave him a hard shove in the direction of his pursuers. "I don't want any press with me," he snapped. "And you take care...
...President flew to Camp David with Haig, Price and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. They were soon joined by a second speechwriter, Pat Buchanan, who is more conservative and hard-hitting than Price. For two days, both writers worked on the speech, with Nixon editing their copy by scribbling extensive notes in the margins and sometimes dictating new paragraphs to Haig. The speech was not finished until Aug. 14, the day before its delivery, when Nixon applied the finishing touches to the eleventh-and final-draft. The speech was so difficult to prepare, explained one of the men who worked...
Plant Theory. In a justifiably cynical Washington, speculation grew that somehow Butterfield was a White House plant, that Nixon wanted the information out because the tapes would clear him. Some White House staffers who claim to have heard the tapes?despite the contention of Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler that none of the White House counsels have reviewed the tapes?say that the recordings do just that. But Senator Baker caustically noted that if he were President and that were true, "I'd have been rolling it [the information] up to Capitol Hill in wheelbarrows...
Secretary Ron Ziegler.) The first lesson in Tradition I begins: "What do we do? We create Happiness...