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...humor that he became one of the truly rare Administration officials to emerge from the Viet Nam ordeal with his name not only intact but enhanced. When he left to become U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus in May 1973, McCloskey was given a dinner by the National Press Club. Peter Lisagor, the crusty Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, declared at the time: "It is just plain remarkable that a public affairs official could be so esteemed...
...when word came of the Ford-Brezhnev arms agreement because he was on a tour of Vladivostok. But Nessen's kowtowing statement that "the President will return home in triumph," and his condescending remark that the journalists "were dazzled ... amazed" by the arms agreement, really roused them. Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief...
...fair is Reeves' rap? Many reporters traveling with Ford believe that they have honestly hit him harder in his first three months than any other President has been hit. Peter Lisagor, veteran Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, finds the Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have...
...President had reached his decision. For a time, the initial confusion was compounded. Ford authorized his acting press secretary, Jack Hushen, to inform reporters that the "entire matter" of pardoning all Watergate defendants, including those already convicted or imprisoned, was "under study." Incredulous, Chicago Daily News Reporter Peter Lisagor asked: "Is the White House aware of the impact of this statement?" Hushen assured him that...
Still, a number of newsmen wonder about the future. As President, of course, Ford will hardly have the time to cultivate journalists as he once did. Says Lisagor: "I can't picture him becoming a devious man, a trickster, but he may become more inaccessible." Says John Osborne of the New Republic: "I'm waiting and seeing." But one journalist has high expectations. Says Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President Kennedy and now a roving editor for France's L'Express: "The intent is there. The competence is there. I think the thing...