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Almost casually Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said the President was "aware" of talk about his resigning but was determined to concentrate on what he had "to accomplish in the second term." Instead of watching the Watergate testimony on television, he relied on a daily summary prepared at the direction of the new White House chief of staff General Alexander Haig. Most afternoons and evenings he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, where he was said to be preparing for next month's meeting with Soviet Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...occurred at the Watergate apartment and office complex when he read news reports. "I was appalled at this senseless, illegal action" and was "shocked" to learn that members of the re-election committee "were apparently among those guilty." That does not explain why he authorized Press Secretary Ziegler, just two days after the June 17 breakin, to dismiss it as "a third-rate burglary attempt...
...General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole Jr., another J. Walter Thompson product and a top Ehrlichman assistant since 1969, will take on added...
...been paranoiac on the subject. Until the past fortnight, the White House was treating journalistic pursuit of the Watergate story as though it were malicious or downright unpatriotic. In his April 30 speech, belatedly but generously, the President actually praised the press for its work in exposing Watergate. Ron Ziegler picked up the cue the next day and, under some prodding, apologized for his contemptible attacks on the Washington Post. Amateur Zieglers, Agnews, Haldemans, Ehrlichmans all over the country will have to take notice...
...White House conceded defeat poignantly, if rather belatedly. First the President, in his televised address, credited "a vigorous free press" for helping to reveal the truth. After the speech, he told reporters to "continue to give me hell whenever you think I'm wrong." Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler the next day publicly apologized to the Washington Post for his past denunciations of the paper's Watergate coverage. Spiro Agnew followed with his own peace offering by lamenting the "unfortunate hostility" that has existed between officials and journalists. Both sides, he said, should "put aside visceral reaction and engage...