Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, Rediscovered.

Let's take a moment to talk about one of the toughest jobs in politics, the White House Press Secretary.

I have a question.

You get one more. Let's not agree.

That's a ridiculous. You're basically, okay, Kristen, we're going to end this right there.

Hunter, Hunter.

If you thought Sean Spicer had it bad,

consider the life in times of Ron Ziegler,

the press secretary for Richard Nixon

during the Watergate scandal.

In late August, 1973,

as the scandal ate away at Nixon's psyche and presidency,

CBS News correspondent Dan Rather

filed an astonishing report on the evening news.

What you are about to see, Rather, said, is a rare glimpse in public of presidential irritation.

And there it was on tape, the president of the United States grabbing press secretary

Ron Ziegler by the shoulders and shoving him away.

Ziegler was a familiar and reviled figure, the man who called the Watergate scandal a simple

third-rate burglary. Nixon was under intense stress, facing a special prosecutor and calls for

his resignation. On that fateful day, Nixon ventured out of Washington for the first time in months

to give a speech in New Orleans. He was walking toward the convention hall, toward a totally

friendly audience, a veterans group. Scores of reporters followed him, hoping to get him on camera

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