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Author Nessen, Ron, 1934-

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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