Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Nessen, Ron, 1934-

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

ix, 243 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Nessen, Ron, 1934-
• Television journalists > United States > Biography
• Presidential press secretaries > United States > Biography
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989

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.

Call Number

JFE 12-408

ISBN

• 9780819571564 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0819571563 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780819571571 (e-book)
• 0819571571 (e-book)

LCCN

2011017892

OCLC

YBP 2011017892

Author

Nessen, Ron, 1934-

Title

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

Imprint

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-408