 In 1950 he began working for "The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin" first as a copy boy, and then as a reporter, managing editor, and publisher.On November 17, 1973, at the annual Associated Press Managing Editors convention in Orlando, Florida, 
Ungaro asked Nixon about his reported underpayment of income taxes in 1970 and 1971.Nixon’s famous declaration came after he answered a subsequent question about the Watergate scandal, posed by then president of the association Dick Smyser of Oak Ridge, Tennessee's "The Oak Ridger".