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...CLEMENTE, Cal.--President Nixon watched a portion of the televised Democratic convention which nominated Senator George McGovern for president but "didn't follow it at all," press secretary Ronald Ziegler said...
...Ziegler said Nixon had no immediate comment on the South Dakota senator's nomination nor was he expected to be in contact with...
...addition to watching the convention proceedings, Ziegler said, the President had dinner with his wife and relaxed at the western White House, where he has been on a working vacation for the past ten days...
...about the integrity of the political process that I have encountered in a quarter century." Former Attorney General John Mitchell, who heads up Nixon's campaign Committee for the Re-Election of the President, retorted that this was "sheer demagoguery." The White House, through Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, at first tried to dismiss the incident as a "third-rate burglary attempt." That it was considerably more serious became clear when the five arrested men were identified. One was in the pay of Mitchell's committee; several had past links to the CIA. Beyond that, shadowy trails reached...
Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler reported Nixon's early-morning call to Mitchell, former attorney general and long-time Nixon friend. Mitchell resigned as campaign director Saturday after receiving an ultimatum from his wife, Martha, to get out of politics or she would leave...