Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME has learned, to make Nelson Rockefeller his domestic "czar" once Rockefeller is-confirmed as Vice President by Congress...
Both in quantity and quality, the case against Nelson Rockefeller was disintegrating last week. Not only were the arguments thinner and shriller as an assortment of hostile witnesses appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, but Congressmen-Democrats and Republicans alike-were nervous about not having a Vice President at a time when the nation's economic troubles are deepening. Said Republican Pete Mc-Closkey: "The sooner Rockefeller can get over there, the more likely it will be that we'll get leadership and action out of this Administration, and both parties want that...
...resisters, evidence that the passions of Viet Nam are finally burning out. There are no longer any American troops fighting and dying in that country, and the draft has been successfully abolished; the volunteer Army is in fact oversubscribed. Congress has begun to reform its creaky, outmoded machinery. Nelson Rockefeller is likely to be confirmed as Vice President, perhaps providing the Executive Branch with the domestic authority it has so far failed to exercise. Overseas, where shadows deepen, there are still a few glimpses of good. The limitation on offensive weapons agreed upon by the U.S. and the Soviets...
...Nelson should have followed the example of Grandfather Rockefeller in the distribution of his wealth-a dime at a time...
...food as a political and strategic weapon," and called on "the whole Catholic community" to fast at least two days a week in order to help the hungry. Much more controversially, the bishops voted in a closed and heated session to authorize their pro-life committee to question Nelson Rockefeller's qualifications for the vice-presidency. The committee thereupon asked congressional investigating panels to ensure that the nominee would not use the office "to promote permissive abortion." While the bishops obviously had the right to criticize, the strategy seemed out of keeping for a body that had just elected...