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...chartreuse Pinto belonging to the Milwaukee Journal's Jack Kole sped up to the White House following Ford's address to Congress. They wanted a text of the speech. "We are going to test the Administration's new openness," the Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor told the guard. "Can we drive in?" The police officer checked, was told it was okay. They drove up West Executive Avenue, sometimes called Limousine Alley, finding a parking space in slots reserved for the Vice President. They got the text, went off into the night as easily as they...
Among the first to experience and express the new mood are the 40 or so members of the permanent White House press corps. "It feels like someone threw open the window of the White House to let in light and air," says Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. "Ford is not the insecure man that Nixon was. He has never been traumatized by the press, and he doesn't treat the press as an enemy." Says NBC's Tom Brokaw: "It's like New Year...
...press secretary. After fencing for 5½ years with an often surly Ronald Ziegler and his agreeable but seldom more informative deputy, Gerald Warren, many reporters have greeted terHorst's appointment with undisguised pleasure. "To Ziegler, information was something to be packaged and merchandized for his client," says Lisagor. "The feeling is that terHorst will treat information as an objective commodity." To Peter Kumpa, Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore Sun, terHorst is "sensible and moderate, a thorough professional...
...welcomed the succession of President Ford. The Miami Herald said of his Inaugural Address: "It bespoke courage, humility, openhandedness, conscientiousness, peace and love of fellow man. Its theme was 'Truth is the glue that holds government together.' It was truly presidential." In the Chicago Daily News, Peter Lisagor observed: "Mr. Ford has a great deal going for him. An era of good will has been ushered in almost overnight, and the relief is enormous. It is more than the usual political honeymoon; it is the hope that follows catharsis, and the former Michigan football center seems to understand...
...rumors-might have succumbed to some very human emotions. They might have been gleeful over the final agony of their longtime antagonist, or at least exhilarated to report one of the biggest stories of their time. In fact, exuberance was rare. Said Chicago Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Peter Lisagor: "There was an inexorability to it all, and it turned into a death watch." CBS Correspondent Dan Rather echoed that mood when he described TV coverage of resignation night as "perhaps a little too funereal...