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Seven members of the new club came to the first meeting of A.W.H.P.S., visiting Speakes' office where each had presided at one time or another over the past 30 years. "You've cleaned the carpet," observed Ron Nessen, who was Jerry Ford's man. "You've taken out the private bathroom," lamented George Christian, one of Lyndon Johnson's press officers, and still an astute judge of power perks. One of Christian's main innovations was still operational. That is a circular desk, situated in the office corner to prevent reporters from sneaking behind...
...Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Board of Trustees Saturday announced the appointment of Dr. H. Richard Nessen '54, associate professor of Health Services at the School of Public Health, as the hospital's new president...
There is even a laugh or two among the 15 million pages of documents, 700,000 feet of film and 275,000 still photographs that are being catalogued. On display is the letter that Cartoonist Garry Trudeau wrote to Ron Nessen, Ford's press secretary, asking for accreditation on the Chinese trip. Trudeau took along a Frisbee, which he and NBC's Tom Brokaw tossed back and forth on the Great Wall until Susan Ford suggested it was not dignified. From such original research Trudeau conceived the Chinese adventures of "Uncle Duke" in Doonesbury...
Much the same happened to Ford. His press secretary, Ron Nessen, recalled last week that Ford emerged from the attempts on his life determined to fulfill the presidential obligation to the fullest. He wore bulletproof vests and rain coats now and then, but they were always an irritation, and finally he put them aside. Ford made public appearances without a trace of fear...
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...