Third-rate
burglary
Posted by ESC on February 12, 2003
ABC News online
SAN DIEGO Feb. 11 -
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...
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