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

Publication Info.	Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 243 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Nessen, Ron, 1934-
	Nessen, Ron, 1934- (OCoLC)fst00023311
	Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.
	Presidential press secretaries -- United States -- Biography.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	Nessen, Ron, 1934-
	Presidential press secretaries -- United States -- Biography.
	Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	Journalism.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Presidential press secretaries. (OCoLC)fst01075719
	Television journalists. (OCoLC)fst01146949
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1945-1989
Genre/Form	Electronic books -- Biography.
	Electronic books.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form:	Print version: Nessen, Ron, 1934- Making the news, taking the news. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011 9780819571564 (DLC) 2011017892 (OCoLC)712117795
ISBN	9780819571571 (electronic bk.)
	0819571571 (electronic bk.)

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