By Michael J. Brooks The presidential campaign in 1976 was a bitter one pitting the incumbent, Gerald R. Ford, against the ...

When he died in 2006, 93-year-old Gerald Ford was the longest-lived U.S. president. That milestone, however, might never have been reached if not for the actions of a man from southern Minnesota.

Ron Nessen, a former war correspondent who as President Gerald Ford’s press secretary sought to rebuild the White House image after the Watergate scandals with greater openness and a ...

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

WASHINGTON — Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity that the position had lost during the Nixon ...