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Whether Powell's dual role as adviser and spokesman will be playable in Washington is a question. Yet many reporters say they would prefer him to the incumbent, Ron Nessen. And even Powell's critics are pleased at his ability to be frank with Carter, whom other aides revere as being above criticism. Listening to Carter promise a crowd that his staff would not exercise power as arrogantly as Richard Nixon's, Powell scoffed, "He just lost my vote." But then no man is a hero to his gofer...
Narrow Margin. If Hartmann was a bit nervous about Gergen's expanded role, Press Secretary Ron Nessen was a bit defensive about the newly fortified communications office. Some newsmen have harshly, often unfairly, criticized Nessen-an ex-TV news correspondent for NBC-for his lack of knowledge about White House thinking; some Republicans have accused him of undermining Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign director, whose tendency to put his foot in his mouth has sometimes made it difficult for the White House to support him. But Gergen insisted that his appointment was not designed to undercut anybody...
Assad's most likely course would seem to be a continuation of the cautious moves he has made throughout the crisis-a mix of political pressure and persuasion, backed by a limited troop presence inside Lebanon. Though White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen last week praised Syria for "playing a constructive role" in Lebanon, Damascus was emphatic in putting down suggestions that Assad had received from Washington a "green light" for greater military intervention. As one Syrian official recently put it, "We only want to be the gendarme...
Judging from his performance as guest host of TV's irreverent, ploddingly skittish variety show, NBC's Saturday Night, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen does not have much future as a comedian. The question some people were asking last week is what sort of future does he have as a presidential press secretary? With good-natured daring, Nessen-a former NBC newsman-appeared in several satiric turns with Gagster Chevy Chase, whose weekly specialty is a lampoon of Ron's accident-prone boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling...
...military necessity, the Ford Administration agreed last year to renegotiate the treaty. The aim was a gradual relinquishing of the present total domination of the canal and its zone by the U.S. Reagan in effect wants the U.S. to break off those negotiations. But Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen warned last week of the possibility of a repetition of the rioting and bloodshed that in 1964 erupted in Panama over this issue...