TY - BOOK AU - Nessen,Ron TI - Making the news, taking the news: from NBC to the Ford White House SN - 9780819571571 AV - PN4874.N2957 A3 2011eb U1 - 070.92 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Middletown, Conn. PB - Wesleyan University Press KW - Nessen, Ron, KW - Television journalists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Presidential press secretaries KW - Journalistes de télévision KW - États-Unis KW - Biographies KW - Porte-paroles du gouvernement KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Journalism KW - Politics and government KW - fast KW - 1945-1989 KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Autobiography KW - Electronic books KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Introduction -- The Mal Jaune -- Golf in Palm Springs, death in Saigon -- "You lied to me" -- Weekends in Austin -- "We shall overcome" -- A change of plans -- The five o'clock follies -- Baptism by fire -- Cindy and the Two Apple Troupe -- Tet and other horrors -- "I don't want to die" -- The cease-fire that wasn't -- Around the world in eighty stories -- "Nattering nabobs of negativism" -- "Our long national nightmare is over" -- The President next door -- Changing sides -- The first days -- The ghost who wouldn't go away -- The First Lady -- "WIN" and other economic disasters -- Too much vodka, too much Nicole -- Slippery slopes -- The CIA did WHAT?! -- Speech writing or speech fighting -- Kicking around Ron -- Testing the President's resolve -- Stumbles and changes -- To Helsinki and beyond -- Nine lives -- "Ford to New York : drop dead!" -- State of the world, state of the Union, state of my marriage -- "Live from New York" -- Ford vs. Reagan -- "One actor is enough" -- Swine flu and other maladies -- Does the Soviet Union dominate Eastern Europe? -- The race to the wire -- The end N2 - Veteran reporter and Washington insider reflects on personal experiences and public events in the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=399911 ER -