Word: governor
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...continental air defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
...first time since he went into politics, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, one of his party's most marketable presidential prospects, last week ventured out of his home state for a frankly political appearance. For his audience, Rocky picked one of the nation's toughest: Washington's Republicans-only Capitol Hill Club, whose 1,300 members, centering around the G.O.P. members of Congress, have seen many a bright-looking Republican come...
...specifics, his performance would have set the Republican pros to sniggering contemptuously at another man. Pointing to New York's Representative John Taber, senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee and as given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...
Rockefeller also told one of the oldest of all political jokes - the one about a Western Governor attending his first hanging. When the condemned man declined to make a departing speech, the Governor offered to say a few words. The sheriff asked the prisoner if the Governor could have the time. Replied the prisoner: "Yes, but only on the condition that you hang me first...
Soon Hawaii's discomfited legislators were scrambling hard at returning their souvenirs. Six cartons containing desk lamps and electric fans were dumped at night in the driveway of an investigator for Hawaii's attorney general, who had been ordered by Republican Governor William F. Quinn to investigate the scandal. And Senate Watchdog Duarte himself accounted for one of the rugs; it had, he said, been mistakenly shipped to his home on the island of Maui, along with 852 Ibs. of office furnishings he had purchased at discount rates from a firm renting equipment to the senate. Still missing...