Ronald Harold Nessen (born May 25, 1934) was White House Press Secretary for President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's pardon of former president Nixon.
Prior to joining the Ford administration, Nessen served as a Washington correspondent for NBC News. On the day of Ford's succession to the presidency, August 9, 1974, he provided commentary for the inauguration. He also cove...
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Ronald Harold Nessen (born May 25, 1934) was White House Press Secretary for President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's pardon of former president Nixon.
Prior to joining the Ford administration, Nessen served as a Washington correspondent for NBC News. On the day of Ford's succession to the presidency, August 9, 1974, he provided commentary for the inauguration. He also covered the President in a report broadcast that evening on NBC Nightly News. In that piece, Nessen reported on the appointment of terHorst, the man whom he himself would succeed one month later.
"Nobody believes the official spokesman . . . but everybody trusts an unidentified source."
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