Word: nessen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have averted an arms race of unbelievable cost," declared President Ford. "A breakthrough," summed up Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "It was something Nixon couldn't do in three years, but Ford did it in three months," said Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen in early exuberance, before apologizing for "a hasty and oversimplified remark...
Press Secretary Ron Nessen's face shone brightly the day he took over the White House briefings and announced, "I'm a Ron, but not a Ziegler." But after 2% strenuous months and an exhausting presidential jaunt to Asia, an exasperated Nessen was displaying Ziegler-like ways, including rare press conferences, sour exchanges with reporters and bombastic language inflating the achievements of his boss. The White House press was beginning to wonder out loud, "How long can Nessen last?" Then, last week, Nessen admitted his errors and promised to improve...
...find our economy and Government depressing enough at the present time, and I became even more discouraged after reading in Essay that "White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen was seen wearing his WIN (WHIP INFLATION NOW) button upside down, claiming that NIM spelled out NO IMMEDIATE MIRACLES...
...Nessen and the President might be well advised to open their Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look up the definition of NIM. They would, with red faces, discover that NIM is a verb, defined: "to take from, steal, filch...
...services has declined for the past nine months; the drop is expected to continue at least until mid-1975, thus marking one of the longest slides since the Great Depression. Last week, with the election over, the White House ended its verbal contortions and permitted Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen to concede what most non-Government experts already knew: the U.S. is now in a recession. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, added that the economy had stood up fairly well until late September, but "some time in the past four to six weeks...