Word: nessen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin, their chief press secretary, leaned back in his nighttime encounters with Jody Powell and spouted the Soviet line with a certain disdain. After all, he had regularly chewed up past U.S. press secretaries: Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, Ron Nessen. Powell, the Vienna (say Vye-an-uh), Ga., debater, was clearly superior. His voice and manner were more forceful, he refuted the Soviet charges with facts and a down-home touch of nastiness, zinged his adversary with some humor. The thought crossed several minds that Zamyatin, like the other Soviets, had been too long in his iron cocoon...
During the Ford administration, the press corps oversimplified the complex issues facing Ford because journalists have a limited amount of time and space at their disposal, Nessen added...
...press's failure to publicize the candidates' ideologies minimized the differences between them Nessen currently a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics, said...
...Nessen spoke yesterday to a group of 50 students in Emerson Hall and participated in a panel discussion on media coverage of campaigns at Hilles library...
...Nessen said he questions whether or not his personality traits suited him for the job with Ford because he said he is "thin-skinned and short-tempered," adding that "the role of the press secretary is to be a lightening rod, to soak up criticism that would otherwise go to the president...