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...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...
...almost 1%) in consumer prices last month. The increase brought the year-to-year rise in the cost of living to 12.1%, the steepest climb since 1947. Over the year, inflation has cut real incomes of wage earners by 5.6%. The price push, said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, was ample justification for the President's determination to dig in against anything like a "180-degree turn" in policy...