Word: nelson
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...This is not exactly Rockefeller country," Alabama Governor George Wallace wryly observed on the eve of the Vice President's trip to the South. But last week, in a mere two days of back pounding, arm squeezing and conservative oratory, Nelson Rockefeller managed further to blur his past image as a big-spending liberal and convince many amazed Southerners that he is really one of their own. In his two stops at Mobile, Ala., and Columbia, S.C., he did not eliminate the conservative opposition to his remaining on the ticket in 1976, but he went far toward moderating...
Reform Hearings. President Ford's approach will be a cautious one. He has selected John G. Veneman, a former Under Secretary of HEW and now an aide to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to pull together the choices for reform. Then Rockefeller will hold a series of regional hearings. Says Ford: "There is an awful lot of wisdom out in the country on what is right and what is wrong about welfare...
Caught between some of Chicago's most colorful denizens and some of philosophy's most challenging questions, Citrine often seems as if he were becoming a hybrid of two other famous home-town boys: Robert Hutchins and Nelson Algren. His real confusion, however, grows out of a bad conscience about the death of an old friend...
...correct a 110-year oversight of American history" by making a formal restoration of citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The most pointed ceremony of the week occurred on Saturday -Ford's anniversary day in office. The President and Betty Ford had dinner with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife Happy. The get-together was a gesture of support for Rockefeller, who has recently come under fire. Ford's newly appointed campaign director, Howard ("Bo") Callaway, wondered out loud on a couple of occasions if Rocky should not be dropped from the ticket in order...
Zeke Boyd, U.S. Labor Party organizer for New York and a Communist candidate for the New York State Senate, spoke before Gregory and charged the CIA and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller with "the deliberate destruction of the entire population of Angola while looting primary commodities from that South African country...