Profile
Ron Ziegler
White House Press Secretary
Male
Born
May 12, 1939
Died
Feb 10, 2003
Ronald Louis "Ron" Ziegler was White House Press Secretary and Assistant to the President during United States President Richard Nixon's administration.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1939
Birth
Born in 1939.
TEENAGE
1958
19 Years Old
He graduated from Dixie Heights High School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. Ziegler first attended Xavier University in Cincinnati. He transferred to the University of Southern California in 1958 and graduated in 1961 with a degree in government and politics.
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TWENTIES
1962
23 Years Old
He worked at Disneyland as a skipper on the popular Adventureland attraction, The Jungle Cruise. He later worked as a press aide on Nixon's unsuccessful California gubernatorial campaign in 1962.
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THIRTIES
1969
30 Years Old
In 1969, when he was just 29, Ziegler became the youngest White House Press Secretary in history.
1970
31 Years Old
He was also the first Press Secretary to use the White House Press Briefing Room when it was completed in 1970.
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1972
33 Years Old
He was the White House press secretary for the Nixon administration during the political scandal known as Watergate. In 1972, he dismissed the first report of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel as the discussion of a "third rate burglary," but within two years Nixon had resigned under threat of impeachment. Some of Ziegler's public statements from this period reflect an ostensible commitment to democratic civics which in hindsight was not borne out by the facts. For example, in 1970 CIA security adviser Dan Mitrione, whose later reputation as the promoter of torture techniques became substantiated, was assassinated in Uruguay.
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In 1974 he became Assistant to the President.
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1976
37 Years Old
Ziegler appears in the 1976 film All the President's Men as himself in archival news footage.
FORTIES
1988
49 Years Old
In 1988, Ziegler became president and chief executive of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, living in Alexandria, Virgina.
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FIFTIES
1995
56 Years Old
Ziegler is portrayed in the 1995 Oliver Stone film Nixon by David Paymer.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1999
60 Years Old
On November 12, 1999, Ziegler was due to participate by telephone in a television panel discussion that included several former Nixon and Ford aides, including his successor as White House Press Secretary, Jerald terHorst, who resigned in protest at President Ford's pardon of Nixon.
2003
64 Years Old
Died in 2003.
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