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...neither made a full investigation nor came to the conclusion reported by the President. If Dean is right, then Nixon either was misled by those "repeated assurances"?or he is not correctly recalling the event. Nixon does not say from whom the assurances came, although Press Secretary Ziegler has explained that Ehrlichman was an intermediary on this matter between Nixon and Dean...
That recent exchange was deceptively benign, an interlude in a harsh running confrontation that seems to be destroying Ziegler's usefulness. Ziegler, 34, has never been popular with White House reporters. Unlike most of his recent predecessors, he had never been a newsman-he was an account executive for J. Walter Thompson, where he met H.R. Haldeman. His friendship with Haldeman and his work on the 1968 Nixon campaign lifted him into the White House...
...query from the back of the White House briefing room cut through the clamor: "Do you still enjoy your job?" Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, clutching the Styrofoam coffee cup that seems to serve him as a big worry bead, offered an uncharacteristically clear response: "I haven't enjoyed it as much over the past few months as I did in previous years. But I don't mind it. I understand the scope of what you're involved...
...contending for eight months that he had ordered his counsel, John W. Dean III, to conduct a thorough White House investigation of any high-level involvement in Watergate or its cover-up and that Dean's report cleared everyone at the White House, Nixon authorized Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler to provide some revealing modifications of the stand. Nixon never talked to Dean about the matter, Ziegler said, but sent directions through John Ehrlichman, the President's chief domestic-affairs adviser, for an investigation...
Reversing a declaration that the White House would have no comment on the various daily allegations made at the Senate hearings, Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler issued a flat denial of Nixon's involvement: "Mr. Nixon did not participate in any way or have any knowledge regarding the cover-up and at no time authorized anyone to represent him in offering Executive clemency...