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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Ron Ziegler, the 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.
Ziegler died at his home in Coronado, a suburb of San Diego, his wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press.
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)