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...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...
...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...
...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...