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...Executive Office Building. Among their final official acts, Nixon's chief Watergate defense lawyers, James St. Clair and J. Fred Buzhardt, advised Ford's staff that under past precedent, the tapes were the personal property of the former President. Ford's press secretary, J.F. terHorst, announced that Nixon would be able to dispose of them as he wished...
...President has moved swiftly to get and keep newsmen on his side. His address to Congress last week contained this assurance: "I believe in the First Amendment and the absolute necessity of a free press." In his first official act, the President announced the appointment of Jerald F. terHorst, 52, a popular old hand in the White House press corps, as his press secretary. After fencing for 5½ years with an often surly Ronald Ziegler and his agreeable but seldom more informative deputy, Gerald Warren, many reporters have greeted terHorst's appointment with undisguised pleasure. "To Ziegler, information...
Extra Space. A short (5 ft. 7½ in.), pipe-smoking Michigander of Dutch extraction, terHorst was taken off the city hall beat at his home-town Grand Rapids Press to cover Ford's first congressional campaign in 1948. The paper had endorsed Ford against the incumbent, and terHorst's assignment, as he tells it, was "being sure that the Ford story was well covered." Ford won by a 2-to-l margin, and the President now amiably refers to terHorst as a man who "connived to get me a little extra space in the Grand Rapids Press...
...have trouble finding the time. Ford is a professed admirer of the open-door policies of Eisenhower Press Secretary James Hagerty, and terHorst has pledged to give reporters better access to the President than they enjoyed in the Nixon White House. "President Ford is a believer in press conferences, and so am I," terHorst said last week. He did not say how many or when (aides have suggested that one every couple of weeks or so would be reasonable), but Ford can hardly fail to improve upon Nixon's dismal record of 37 press conferences during 67 months...
...daily news summary, a staffwritten digest of the day's major events, will continue to be issued. The summary, which Nixon liked to read instead of newspapers and magazines, became a symbol of his self-imposed isolation. However, terHorst says that Ford supplements the summary by reading at least ten newspapers: the Washington Post and Star-News, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News and Free Press, the Grand Rapids Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Christian Science Monitor. Also on his list are TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report...