Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the ...

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

"We are so back." Leavitt, 27, is the youngest press secretary in the nation's history, surpassing President Richard Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, who was 29 when he took the same ...

Leavitt, 27, is the youngest press secretary in the nation's history — unseating President Richard Nixon’s press secretary Ron Ziegler, who was 29 when he took the same position in 1969.

The position of press secretary, held then by Ron Ziegler, lacked credibility as the slow-moving scandal revealed a White House press operation that could not be trusted in its public pronouncements.