Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford has indicated that he will try to hold it to 5%. Among the beneficiaries are 535 members of Congress, who now make $42,500; eleven Cabinet officers, who make $60,000; 14,600 top-level career officials whose salaries have been limited to $36,000; and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, who makes $62,500. "It may be a little inflationary," conceded House Speaker Carl Albert with candid resignation, "but so is everything...
...Nelson Rockefeller must make some concessions to the flesh. He downs a bowl of Wheatena instead of eggs when he breakfasts in bed at 8 each morning. A creeping cholesterol count has forced the indignity...
...little rightward." He does not want to provide his opponents on the right, chiefly Ronald Reagan, with any ammunition. But some activists on the White House staff are aware that a problem that is deferred may be harder to cope with later. At Ford's direction, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller recently asked all Cabinet officers for their priorities, and is currently drawing up policy options for the President on such matters as welfare reform and national health insurance. But Ford is not likely to act until next January when he delivers his State of the Union address...
Along with these words, Kissinger tried to repair the breach-and his own miscalculation-by having Vice President Nelson Rockefeller attempt to arrange a private meeting between Kissinger and Solzhenitsyn. The Russian rejected the proposal...
...Central Europe, and did not reach Washington until 1966. He married late (at 50) and skips the Washington social whirl in favor of his two small children, family life and work. His energies are boundless. He was the lone reporter on a winter Sunday evening last March waiting for Nelson Rockefeller's return from a Puerto Rico vacation. Grabbing the opportunity, Schorr got Rockefeller to admit that his CIA commission was looking into assassination plots...