Ron Nessen, the veteran broadcast journalist who served as press secretary for President Gerald Ford, has died at 90.

Ron Nessen, Press Secretary to President Ford, Dies at 90 WASHINGTON (AP) — Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the ...

(He told reporters on his first day, “I'm a Ron, not a Ziegler," a play off his boss' remark that “I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.”) But, by his own admission, Nessen was at times short-tempered ...