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Eugene McCarthy, former senator and presidential candidate, Ron Nessen, former press secretary to ex-president Gerald R. Ford, and Bella Abzug, former congresswoman, have also accepted invitations to speak at Harvard and meet informally with students, Janet Fraser, associate director of the Institute of Politics, said yesterday...
James C. Thomson Jr., Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said yesterday he hopes Nessen will speak to students in Thomson's course, government and the press...
Powell got a taste of what the job can do to its holder's temperament when he paid a courtesy call on Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen at the White House last week. Though Nessen asked reporters not to question Powell, they did so anyway. "This is my office!" Nessen erupted. "This is the taxpayers' office!" a reporter shouted back. "Call the E.P.S.!" Nessen ordered his secretary. Tempers cooled before the White House's Executive Protective Service was summoned, but, as Powell observed dryly, "I thought it was auspicious that in my first visit to the White...
Other Allegations. The President claimed he had also promptly repaid his Fifth District account for the use of $871.44 in 1972 to buy some clothing for himself and Wife Betty to wear at the 1972 Republican Convention. (Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen later corrected him, saying that only the cost of the plane tickets had been repaid.) Though no crime had ever been alleged in either expense, both violated the House Code of Official Conduct, which directs that campaign and personal funds be kept clearly separated...
When it was over, both candidates received a standing ovation from the audience of reporters and League of Women Voters guests. Rosalynn Carter rushed up to kiss her husband. Ford got congratulations from Press Secretary Ron Nessen, later took a call from Betty Ford, who remained in Washington...