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Meet the Presidents' Press Gonzaga University Will Host Several Books; Gonzaga University Inside: King Tufs Treasures Bulletin See page 2. V Volume LXX Number 7 Spokane, Washington March 31, 1978 J\ Meet the Presidents' Press Gonzaga University will host several books; "With Kennedy. dent Hubert Humphrey, then was He was NBC's White House the Presidential Press 1966," "On Instructions of My appointed special assistant and correspondent when Lyndon B. Secretaries Forum in Kennedy Government," "A Tribute to finally press secretary to Pres. Johnson was President and Pavilion on April 1. Four former Robert F. Kennedy" and editor of Lyndon B. Johnson. covered Nixon's successful press secretaries will be present. "A Tribute to John F. Kennedy." From 1966-68 Reedy was presi­ Presidential campaign in 1968 They are: Pierre Salinger, who He lectured on journalism at dent of Struthers Research and and Sargent Shriver's un­ served under Pres. John F. Mills College, Oakland, Calif, for Development in Washington, successful Vice Presidential Kennedy; George E. Reedy, with four years and has spoken on DC. campaign of 1972. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson; Ron many college campuses. Reedy was a Fellow in Com­ Nessen reported on Gerald Ziegler. with Pres. Richard M. George Reedy is currently munications at Duke University, Ford's confirmation hearings as Nixon; and Ron Nessen, with Nieman Professor of Journalism a Fellow for the Woodrow Wilson Vice President following the Pres. Gerald Ford. at Marquette University in International Center for resignation of Spiro Agnew. In Salinger, who now lives in Milwaukee, Wis. He was dean of Scholars, Maxwell Lecturer at September 1974, Nessen became Syracuse University and Pegram France, is a correspondent for the Marquette School of Jour­ Ron Ziegler press secretary to Pres. Ford and the Paris L'Express. After nalism from 1972 until last year. Lecturer at Brookhaven National served in that role for some 30 Ron Nessen was graduated graduating from the University Laboratory. He has lectured months. extensively and has served as from American University in of San Francisco, he began his consultant to a number of govern­ Washington, D.C. with a degree journalism career as a reporter ment boards and councils. in history. He began his career at with San Francisco Chronicle. Reedy is the author of several a number of small radio stations Nine years later he became west and newspapers in the coast editor of Collier's books; "Who Will Do Our Fighting For Us?", "The Washington, D.C. area, then magazine. In 1957 he became spent five years as an editor for press secretary for Sen. John F. Twilight of the Presidency," "The Persidency in Flux," "The United Press International Kennedy and then Presidential before joining NBC in 1962. press secretary when Kennedy Omniscient President: A Myth Collapses" and advisory editor During his twelve years as a was elected. for "The Presidency" published television correspondent with the Salinger also served as press by Arno Press in 1975. NBC network he was assigned to secretary to Pres. Lyndon John­ cover the news from Washington, George Reedy Ron Ziegler, a Kentucky son in 1963-64 and was named a New York, Mexico City, London Reedy attended the Chicago native, began college at Xavier senator from California in 1965, University in Ohio and was and the Far East. In July, 1965, Ron Nessen public school system and was and later was an executive with graduated with a bachelor's Nessen was injured by a hand Nessen has been a guest lec­ graduated with a bachelor's Continental Arlines, GRAMCO degree from the University of grenade fragment while covering turer on college campuses and at degree in sociology from the (Ltd.) and AMPROP, Inc. Southern California. a battle in the Central Highlands the National War College and has University of Chicago. His first job was as a salesman of Vietnam. written extensively on his He began his career as a with Proctor & Gamble Dist. Co. Nessen reported other war experiences in the mass media. general assignment reporter for For six years he was an account stories from Bangla Desh, This will be the first time four the Philadelphia Inquirer and executive for J. Walter Thomp­ Biafra, from Bolivia during the Presidential press secretaries later became a staff writer and son Co., one of the world's largest search for Che Guevara and from have ever appeared together in a subsequently Senate correspon­ advertising agencies. Borneo during a tribal uprising. program of this kind. dent for United Press. Ziegler began his political Reedy was staff consultant to career as press director for the the Senate Armed Services California Republican Central Preparedness Subcommittee in Panelists Preside Committee in 1961 and then 1951-53. His first major political handled Richard Nixon's cam­ job was as executive director of paign for governor of California. A columnist for the London Presidential Press Secretaries the Senate Democratic Policy He was press aide for Nixon in Daily Telegraph, a President's here at Gonzaga University April Committee and special assistant Pierre Salinger 1968-69 and became press son, a corporate executive and 1. to the Senate Minority Leader former journalist-broadcaster, a They are: Robert Moss, Elliott He commanded a subchaser in secretary in the Nixon Presiden­ from 1953-55. He next served as former U.S. editor and publisher, Roosevelt, Ronald E. Rhody, the Pacific for the U.S. Navy in cy from 1969-74. special assistant to the Senate an NBC-TV correspondent and a Robert Notson, Liz Trotta and WWII and was awarded the Navy Since 1975 Ziegler has been Majority Leader. staff writer for the New York Seymour Hersh. and Marine Corps medal. manager for international ser­ In 1963 Reedy was named Times are among the panelists Moss, who is coming to Salinger is the author of vices for Syska and Hennessey. special assistant to Vice Presi­ Inc., Washington, D.C. who will question four U.S. Spokane from England for the Forum, is editor of Foreign Report, an influential English Elie Abel, former NBC-TV and New York Times correspon­ weekly published by the Abel to moderate dent and now dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Economist. He is also a colum­ Columbia University, will be the moderator for the Presidential nist for the Daily Telegraph in Press Secretaries' Forum April 1. London and for Quick Magazine In a joint announcement, Elliott Roosevelt and Mark Turner, in West Germany. He is a con­ co-chairmen of the program, said, "We're exceptionally for­ tributor to many international tunate to have Elie Abel, with his distinguished background as a newspapers and magazines, in­ foreign correspondent and educator, as the moderator for this cluding the New York Times, Forum. No one could be better qualified to moderate a discus­ Harper's. Commentary and sion of the crucial role of the press secretary to the U.S. National Review. President." A native Australian, Moss was Abel began his career as a reporter for the Windsor Star (On­ formerly a history professor at tario. Canada) in 1941 and later became assistant editor of the the Australian National Universi­ Montreal Gazette. He served as a foreign correspondent for ty. He has lectured extensively at several organizations including the North American Newspaper many universities and defense Alliance in Berlin 1946-47, the United Nations Overseas News colleges, including the Royal Agency in 1947-49 and the New York Times (1949-59) He joined College of Defense Studies in NBC in 1961 and was assigned chief of the network's London London and the NATO Defense Bureau in 1965. He became diplomatic correspondent in 1967. College in Rome. In 1956 Abel headed the New York Times' prize-winning Moss' best-known book is The coverage of the Hungarian Revolution. In 1966 he received the Collapse of Democracy. He is co- Columbia University Alumni Award for distinguished service to founder of the National Associa­ journalism, in 1967 he won the Peabody Award for his Sunday- tion for Freedom, a non-partisan night Monitor program. The World and Washington. In 1969 he British organization founded to received the Overseas Press Club Award for the best interpreta­ campaign for principles of in­ tion of foreign news. dividual and economic freedom. Abel is in his ninth year at Columbia University in New York, He has served as advisor on where he is both dean and Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of defense and foreign issues for the Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism. Continued on page 2 March 31, 1978, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington—Page 2 Presiding press panelists What's News Continued from page 1 leader of the Conservative Party. He joined Kaiser Aluminum in for Sen. Eugene McCarthy's by Mary Fondahn Mrs. Margaret Thatcher. 1959 at Ravenswood. Va. and campaign. Elliott Roosevelt, the eldest moved to New York as eastern For her reporting Trotta has son of Pres. Franklin D. region public affairs manager in won two International Emmy Roosevelt and nephew of Pres. 1962. In 1967 he was named Awards, two Overseas Press Theodore Roosevelt, moved to manager, corporate com­ Club Awards and the Theta Washington state in late 1977 munications and transferred to Sigma Chi Award. A hound of Heaven after living a number of years in company headquarters in Before joining NBC she had England and Portugal. Oakland, Calif. He was appointed worked for the Chicago Tribune. In addition to being part of the director of public relations in Associated Press and the Long For the twelfth straight year. Juanito Piring. a former family of two Presidents in this 1972 and elected a corporate vice Island (N.Y.) daily, Newsday. hoodlum who said that he wanted to "make up for past sins" century, he has had an opportuni­ president in 1976.
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