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Ron Ziegler Ron Ziegler was White House press secretary during most of Richard Nixon's presidency. Dan Rather worked in the same room with him during much of that time. Rather served as CBS's White House correspondent until Nixon resigned. Monday, February 10, 2003 marked the death of Ron Ziegler, the embattled former press secretary for most of President Richard Nixon's years in office. Ziegler eventually had to be replaced as his relationship with a Watergate-obsessed press corps eventually denigrated into daily shouting matches. Rather was one of those reporters who didn't get along with Ziegler, as he described in his...

Ron Ziegler, the pugnacious press secretary who famously called the Watergate break-in a "third-rate burglary" and was the voice of the Nixon administration during the biggest political scandal in American history, has died of a heart attack. He was 63. Ziegler died Monday at his home in Coronado, a suburb of San Diego, his wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press. Ziegler spoke for the White House on such historic events as the opening of relations with China and the Vietnam War, but his name is most commonly associated with the Watergate scandal. He was a strident Nixon defender until the...

<p>SAN DIEGO  — Ron Ziegler, the combative former press secretary to President Nixon who famously called the Watergate break-in a "third-rate burglary," died Monday of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 63.</p> <p>Ziegler died at his home in Coronado, a suburb of San Diego, his wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press.</p>