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Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler emerges now and then from the void and says nothing. He will not comment on the health of Mao, the tone of the meeting, even how long the two shook hands. It remains one of the most remarkable such meetings on record. Richard Nixon has bragged before about the number of hours he has spent with heads of state. This time he flew 11,510 miles and so far he has had one hour with the top guy. That boils down to half an hour of talk. Is that enough to start this historic chain...
Members of what Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refers to as "the writing press" were worse off. This was partly because the White House favored television and partly because Ziegler, as TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey cabled, seemed to "treat writers as an unnecessary evil." Print journalists complained that they were alone while the TV reporters came in teams with large supporting staffs. Some complaints seemed somewhat petty: TV network staffers were provided with cars, while writing journalists had to use buses...
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was bound to be criticized no matter how he selected the 87-mem-ber press party to accompany Richard Nixon to China. After all, there had been 2,000 applications. But when the list was announced last week,* correspondents complained that Ziegler had violated his pledge that preference would be given to news organizations that regularly cover the White House...
...credit, Ziegler sought the widest possible audience in selecting 24 newspaper correspondents who represent 119 dailies. But he gave spots to Columnists William Buckley, Joseph Kraft and Richard Wilson, who presumably could analyze just as well from afar. He also awarded one place to the Reader's Digest, which has cordial relations with Nixon but neither covers the White House regularly nor is truly in the news business. The White House Correspondents Association protested the exclusion of four newspapers and radio chains that staff the White House full time...
...three major networks. It seemed questionable that one vice president or executive producer was needed to supervise the work of each of the twelve network correspondents. It may also be that from the White House viewpoint, the historic journey will provide far more sight and sound than substance. Ziegler told UPl's Helen Thomas: "After all, it is a picture story...