Word: nessen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ullman's bill never stood a chance in the rambunctious 94th Congress. Bit by bit, all the tough provisions were softened in committee until the final bill resembled what White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen called a "marshmal-low." Liberals objected to the gasoline tax. Representatives from oil states did not like the windfall-profits tax. New Englanders protested the import quotas. Congressmen with ties to the auto companies and the United Auto Workers reduced the tax on big cars. Ullman's bill faced at least 100 amendments. Giving up, the House leadership put off consideration...
...date, Ford has held a dozen press conferences and granted 16 exclusive interviews. He has also tried to make the reporter's life easier by accepting follow-up questions. "The President is willing to try anything with the press," says Press Secretary Ron Nessen. "I can't think of anything I've proposed that he's refused." Ford believes that the press, even at its most belligerent, serves a useful governmental purpose. Says Nessen: "Press conferences force more policy decisions than anything else...
...response to Jackson's speech, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen conceded that Nixon had exchanged private letters with Thieu before the accords were signed. But Nessen insisted that Nixon had not committed the U.S. to anything that he and Kissinger had not also stated publicly. What Nixon wrote Thieu in January 1973, according to Nessen, was that the U.S. would "react vigorously" in the event of wholesale Communist cease-fire violations. Thieu seemed to confirm that, when he used the same terms in contending last week that the U.S. had "pledged that it would react vigorously if the North Vietnamese...
Kissinger had also kept the possibility of renewed American air assaults open by refusing to entertain "hypothetical" questions about any such contingency plans. Even if there had been an understanding between Nixon and Thieu, Nessen argued last week, it had been rendered "moot" by the congressional limits placed since then on the presidential use of American military power...
...pointedly contradicted Simon on a significant issue. Simon had declared that Kissinger's proposal to put a floor under oil prices, so that developers of alternate energy sources could be sure that their prices would not be undercut, was not Administration policy. Ford then had Press Secretary Ron Nessen declare that it was indeed his policy. Since then, Simon's confidence, in his influence if not his beliefs, has seemed shaken. Once fiercely independent, he now takes care to go over proposed congressional testimony with White House aides. Many in the Administration doubt that Simon will still...