When Mr. Ridge did call him later, "he made it very clear that he wanted to be informed of those decisions before reading them in the paper," one aide said.
Paula Zahn recalls that when she told Ailes she was moving to CNN in 2001, "he made it very clear to me that he was not going to make life easy for me.
He made it very clear to me in our first conversation with Democratic leaders.
He made it very clear we were not welcome to pay our respects.
"He made it very clear that he was a friend of Israel," Mr. Zogby said.
"He made it very clear it's not we-they," she said.
He made it very clear, too, who he felt should succeed him: Bill English.
But he made it very clear: if you are not getting your product out there, you are destined to fail.
Despite the size of the cheque, he made it very clear the role meant absolutely nothing to him.
"He didn't hold back any words or anything, he made it very clear what they wanted to do with me.
"I think he made it very clear that there is a racial divide that separates people in this country".
