Word: nessen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional failure to appropriate the extra $300 million requested by the President. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger argued that if the U.S. had been "less niggardly" toward South Viet Nam, Thieu would not have to give up the provinces. To support that point, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen displayed an article from the Hanoi journal Hoc Tap that seemed to tie the current Communist offensive to a decline in the capability of Saigon's forces...
...Steve following her mastectomy. He was present at Camp David when Ford decided to coax Liberty, his golden retriever, into the pool. Shooting rapidly, and somehow managing to keep dry, Ward recorded a slapstick sequence as Betty Ford pushed her husband into the water, then Press Secretary Ronald Nessen and Nancy Howe, Mrs. Ford's personal secretary, dunked each other. And in a Truffautesque bit of business, Ward even caught Ford being rigged with electronic paraphernalia for a TV taping session with ABC'S Harry Reasoner at Camp David...
...would not be substantially affected by Ford's rebate (a family making $50,000 a year is no more likely to buy a new car than before), and would consequently be more likely to save rather than spend their larger rebates. "If that happens," White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen frankly admitted, the Ford program "won't have done much good...
...Nessen compounded the error by declaring that the President stood by his statement. Kissinger finally managed to make the remark ap pear to be ambiguous, as if the President had some remote Machiavellian purpose in saying it. That is diplomatically acceptable...
...expect to see before this spring. All told, 6.5 million Americans were out of work at the beginning of the new year, the largest number since 1940. In a statement that seemed intended to prepare the country for even longer unemployment lines, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen reported last week that from some economists, "the President has heard estimates of 8%" joblessness in the coming months. That is higher than any official Administration forecast...