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...formula, when candidate Ford went to New Hampshire on a campaign trip last weekend, his press secretary Ron Nessen became a split personality, his traveling expenses listed under electioneering. AT&T, which furnishes the press phone car for the President, discovered Nessen's new definition and threw him out of the car because the corporation's executives feared this service would be counted as an illegal political contribution. Ma Bell is touchy about such things these days...
...code name "Snowbunny" on the ski slopes at Vail last Christmas, but he did one day on the pen-and-ink slopes of Doonesbury. That comic-strip episode now hangs on the wall of Ford's private study, just off the Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong terrorist writing to his mother from...
...receive the same impudent deflation. Yet Trudeau attacks with such gentle humor that even hard-nosed presidential aides can occasionally be heard chuckling over the daily White House news summary-when it includes a Doonesbury. "It has replaced Peanuts as the first thing I read every morning," says Ron Nessen. Admits Snowbunny himself: "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington-the electronic media, the print media and Doonesbury, and not necessarily in that order...
...plans for Italy. The leak sprang quickly. On Dec. 26, the McClatchy newspaper chain in California reported part of the story, which attracted no attention. Following their own leads, the New York Times and the Washington Post published more detailed versions last week. President Ford authorized Press Secretary Ron Nessen to describe him as "angry" about the leak...
...according to NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor, who last week paused in his newscast to comment that the Vail wipe-out that inspired Nessen's complaint occurred during a Nessen-arranged "photo opportunity." When the President takes a header, Chancellor said, "that's news, and we're going to cover it." Indeed, the President can hardly expect journalists to do anything but report the tumbles along with the triumphs-especially this election year as Ford reaches for all the headlines and air time he can. His abundantly reported China trip last fall produced a bonanza of favorable...