[Jeff Chandler]

I have a copy of the video. Send me $50 and I’ll show it to you.

[laplata]

I remember seeing Nixon shove him but don’t remember Nixon grabbing his collar.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I found this:

https://www.tineye.com/search/0500aa968674a57349c42bd098abe4ae904fc753/

[Paladin2]

At least Nixon didn’t grab him by the pussy...

[Larry Lucido]

Well, if he did, I’m never voting for him again.

[bobby.223]

It did happen. Summer of ‘73 IIRC.

[kristinn]

Pinging a FReeper who might know the answer to your question.

[Nifster]

Who gives a flip?

[LibWhacker]

Absolutely, 100% correct. It did happen. I saw it with my own eyes, live iirc.

[Steely Tom]

I’m not sure about the grabbing-by-the-collar part, but he definitely shoved Ziegler and sent him in a different direction.

[Steely Tom]

Here it is: Framepool.

[Steely Tom]

No collar grab. Nixon just turns him around.

[wideminded]

"During a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention on August 20, 1973, Nixon was photographed angrily pushing Ziegler towards a crowd of reporters. The president was incensed that Ziegler was not doing enough to keep members of the press away as Nixon entered the convention hall." - Wikipedia

[Intolerant in NJ]

Never grabbed him by the collar - did give him a mild shove on the arm as though to say “go on out there and say something” - whatever it was, Ziegler didn’t hold it against Nixon - show on C-Span tonight had a bunch of Nixon’s people talking about his post-presidency, and they mentioned that Ziegler had talked to Nixon many times after he left the office - in fact, Ziegler’s wife and grand-daughter were in the audience and called on to take a bow.....

[pepsionice]

Considering that Nixon had a serious drinking problem over the last couple of years of his period...it’s hard to say if he even remembered doing it.

[cynwoody]

[Prospero]

Yup. He was hustling onto an awaiting plane and Ron Z annoyed and delayed his departure, apparently, and the President hustled his press secretary physically back toward the voracious press corps. He may have steered him by the collar with his right palm flat on Z's back, but it's been awhile, you know. Memory of a memory, and all that...

I was close enough to Dick to see the sweat gleem on his upper lip when he gave his last address to a Joint Session, I'll never forget that!

[rfp1234]

Nixon? I don’t think so. LBJ, on the other hand, is more likely to have done that to his subordinates.

[Dixie Yooper]

I think Newsweek had 4 still pictures in their story about it, back when it happened. Right around Watergate story getting traction.

[Albion Wilde]

Who is Ron Ziegler, and why should I care if he got shoved?