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Ron Nessen, Ford’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 90

He pledged a new era of openness in the wake of the Watergate scandal, but his relationship with the press corps proved rocky.

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Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary under Gerald R. Ford, speaking to reporters in May 1975. Mr. Nessen, who had been a reporter, told his former colleagues, “If I lie or mislead you, I think you are justified in questioning my continued usefulness in this job.”
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