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...Nixon had to deal with a new staff that has not yet shaken down into a smoothly functioning team. As the week passed, it became increasingly clear that the President has replaced the old "Berlin Wall" of Haldeman and Ehrlichman with a new wall of Alexander Haig and Ronald Ziegler. Deputy Press Secretary Warren, who has taken over many of Ziegler's customary duties while Ziegler spends his time working with the President on unspecified matters, reported that Nixon had not so much as talked on the telephone with his counsels in charge of the Watergate problem, J. Fred...
...took his new job seriously; he gave the President unvarnished advice. He urged him to come clean on Watergate. He told Ron Ziegler that he had lost all credibility as press secretary. "If I were in your shoes," said Connally, "I wouldn't stay around here." Before long, Connally's phone stopped ringing; he found that he was not first among equals in the White House but just one adviser among many. At the state dinner for Leonid Brezhnev last week, he told reporters: "You can give advice, but you can't make 'em take...
...less encouraging move, Nixon rewarded the loyalty of his embattled press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, by making him an assistant to the President and giving him the title of Director of Communications. The latter job is being vacated by Herbert Klein, a Nixon associate of some 25 years, who was effectively cut off from White House power by Haldeman and Ehrlichman -and thus is unblemished by Watergate. Klein will become a vice president for corporate relations for Metromedia...
When the grand jury prosecutors' desire to question the President became known last week, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler replied that the President would not testify either in person or in writing, claiming that for him to do so would be "constitutionally inappropriate." The phrase was well-chosen, for the Constitution does not specifically address the question, though it does provide a limited measure of immunity for Congressmen. What it does do is lay out precisely, in the articles of impeachment, a process for interrogating a President, and many Constitutional authorities feel that this is meant to exclude...
...lucky, editorials like "Bunk" will get you jobs like Ziegler's. You have to know something to write for the Real Paper, the Washington Post, or Resist. John Womack, Jr. Professor of History