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Ron Ziegler

Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary during United States President Richard Nixon's administration from 19691974 and Assistant to the President in 1974.

Ziegler was born in Covington, Kentucky. He worked on Nixon’s unsuccessful California gubernatorial election in 1962 as a press aide. Ziegler became the youngest White House Press Secretary ever at the age of 29 in 1969. He was a primary spokesperson for the Nixon administration during the Watergate political scandal. He initially described the break-in of the Watergate Hotel as a "third rate burglary," a phrase which has since lived in infamy.