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...complicated Rockefeller's position. Another new problem last week: publicity about the fact that the Rockefeller family contributed $200,000 to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Less than a year later, Nixon overruled the Civil Aeronautics Board and allowed Eastern Air Lines to acquire Caribair, a financially troubled airline based in Puerto Rico. At the time, Nelson owned no Eastern stock, but his brother Laurance is currently the airline's largest individual stockholder (with 1.75%). Laurance had sent Nixon a telegram urging him to permit the merger...
...even on vacation, Hubert acted as if he wouldn't really mind if the campaign went on twelve months a year. His Caribair plane had barely set down at St. Thomas Island's airport when Humphrey burst past his Secret Service guards and began grabbing hands in the enthusiastic crowd. He made a speech, then went with his family to Laurance Rockefeller's beach house at Cancel Bay Plantation, a resort on St. John Island. There, he changed into shorts, sports shirt and straw...
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