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...John D. Rockefeller IV, the son of John D. III, is by far the best known and most political of the Cousins. "Jay" went to West Virginia in 1964 for an "American grass-roots experience" and has been there ever since. After two years as a poverty worker, he switched to politics because he figured it was the way "to get things done." From the state legislature he became secretary of state in 1968, then suffered a setback in 1972 when he lost his bid for Governor. "Jay" is now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College, a small, coeducational Methodist...
...IV POLITICAL INTEREST ACTIVISM...
...IV. NIXON CANNOT BE NAMED A CO-CONSPIRATOR...
Pierre S. du Pont IV, 39, whose family founded the chemical company that has the tallest industrial smokestacks in Delaware, won his seat in Congress in 1970 by campaigning for stricter controls on industrial pollution. A Republican whose victory margins have broken records, "Pete" du Pont has been working hard to link his name with clean politics as well as clean air. He rejects contributions in excess of $100 from anyone, including himself, has voluntarily disclosed his net worth ($2.5 million), and has been an outspoken critic of the Administration on Watergate. His rating from the choosy League of Women...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...