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...Friday night, April 27, as Nixon gazed gloomily at the distant lights of Washington from the rustic presidential cabin in Camp David, Md., he knew his two longtime servants had to be sacrificed. He summoned Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler on Saturday and asked him to help prepare their resignation statements. Probably his closest remaining confidant, William Rogers, arrived to help
...Speech. On Monday, Ziegler announced the stunning staff changes in Washington. Nixon remained at Camp David to craft his TV speech with Writer Price. He arrived at his Oval Office just 90 seconds before air time, looking and sounding nervous. A bust of Abraham Lincoln and a photo of Nixon's family had been placed within camera range. The occasion was reminiscent of Nixon's celebrated Checkers speech of 1952, in which he admitted that he had drawn on a secret $18,000 campaign fund (an almost touchingly modest figure by current measurement) that had been donated by California political...
...Nixon's re-election committee were revealed last week. The Washington Post reported that after Nixon ordered his mining of harbors in North Viet Nam, his own re-election committee sent hundreds of telegrams to the White House applauding the action. This enabled Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler to announce that public response was running about 5 to 1 in support of the action. When a Washington television station, WTTG, announced a poll seeking public reaction to the mining, the Nixon committee mailed some 2,000 postcards to the station, approving Nixon's move. Members of the committee...
Press Secretary Ron Ziegler goes through his rituals of evasion like some man we never knew. Arrogance has given way to patience. Scorn, contempt and anger have faded into professions of understanding. He presides in front of his pale blue backdrop every morning with a large, uncomprehending sadness behind his eyes...
...March 26, Ziegler "flatly" denied "any prior knowledge on the part of Mr. Dean regarding Watergate...