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Perhaps the most damning instance of the facts being hidden from Ziegler was contained in Dean's account of Administration efforts to dodge a pending TIME article on the FBI'S electronic surveillance of White House staffers and newsmen (see following story...
Such episodes returned to spook Ziegler. His relations with White House reporters were shaky even before Watergate. Now, with his added title of Assistant to the President, Ziegler is doing less of a routine briefing of newsmen...
Last week Melvin Laird, the new White House domestic affairs adviser, told the Washington Post that Ziegler might be replaced altogether as principal spokesman. That would mean more exposure -and heat - for Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, 42, a genial sort who seems to have won the season's most dubious assignment. "This White House," says Victor Gold, formerly Spiro Agnew's press secretary, "could make Saul of Tarsus look like an idiot in two days, with the things they give their spokesmen...
...University of Nebraska, Warren flew for the Navy during the Korean War, later signed on as a trainee with the San Diego Union, where he worked his way up to assistant managing editor. Just after Warren got that post in 1968, a mutual friend introduced him to Ziegler, who invited him to come to the White House as a deputy press secretary. Warren and his wife Euphemia moved into a comfortable house in Washington's fashionable Spring Valley section, began an active, gregarious social life; they even maintain personal friendships with members of the White House press corps. Warren...
Room for Humor. Warren's briefing-room manner differs markedly from Ziegler's. His horn-rimmed glasses and pipe lend a thoughtful air to his comments; he pauses to consider questions before replying and accepts hostile queries without resorting to Ziegler's huffiness. Ziegler's programmed manner leaves little room for humor. Warren is more unbuttoned. Failing to hear a question from NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, he quipped: "Richard, will you speak in your on-the-air voice?" When he first began subbing for Ziegler, Warren would open with a crack at his own expense...