Ronald L. Ziegler papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Correspondence; Prisoners of war; Peace; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Prisoners and prisons; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Political corruption; Presidents; Press coverage; United States. Office of the White House Press Secretary; Politics and government; Paris Conference on Vietnam (1973); Election; United States; Foreign relations; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, political files, subject files, legal material, notes, briefing material, transcripts of press briefings and press conferences, press releases, calendars and schedules, telephone logs, biographical material, family papers, printed matter, clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Ziegler's activities as White House press secretary, assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, and assistant to Nixon after his resignation from the presidency.  Subjects include Republican Party activities in California during the 1960s, Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, the press and press coverage, the Vietnam War, prisoners of war, Paris peace talks, Watergate Affair, Nixon's resignation and pardon, and foreign relations especially with China and the Soviet Union.  Correspondents include Patrick J. Buchanan, Dwight L. Chapin, Ken W. Clawson, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Franklin R. Gannon, David R. Gergen, Alexander Meigs Haig, H.R. Haldeman, Bruce A. Kehrli, Richard M. Nixon, David N. Parker, Diane Sawyer, Gerald Lee Warren, and J. Bruce Whelihan.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Deposit, Nancy Ziegler, 2008.

Deposit converted to gift, 2009.

White House press secretary, assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, and trade association administrator.

Collection material in English, with Chinese and Russian.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010152