Making the news, taking the news : from NBC to the Ford White House / Ron Nessen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nessen, Ron, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nessen, Ron, 1934-.

Nessen, Ron.

Television journalists--United States--Biography.

Television journalists.

Presidential press secretaries.

United States.

Presidential press secretaries--United States--Biography.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Veteran reporter and former White House press secretary reflects on the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The Mal Jaune

Golf in Palm Springs, death in Saigon

"You lied to me"

Weekends in Austin

"We shall overcome"

A change of plans

The five o'clock follies

Baptism by fire

Cindy and the Two Apple Troupe

Tet and other horrors

"I don't want to die"

The cease-fire that wasn't

Around the world in eighty stories

"Nattering nabobs of negativism"

"Our long national nightmare is over"

The President next door

Changing sides

The first days

The ghost who wouldn't go away

The First Lady

"WIN" and other economic disasters

Too much vodka, too much Nicole

Slippery slopes

The CIA did WHAT?!

Speech writing or speech fighting

Kicking around Ron

Testing the President's resolve

Stumbles and changes

To Helsinki and beyond

Nine lives

"Ford to New York : drop dead!"

State of the world, state of the Union, state of my marriage

"Live from New York"

Ford vs. Reagan

"One actor is enough"

Swine flu and other maladies

Does the Soviet Union dominate Eastern Europe?

The race to the wire

The end.

ISBN:

9780819571564

0819571563

9780819571571

0819571571

OCLC:

712117795