Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nothing delights me so much," Nelson Rockefeller told the House Judiciary Committee, "as facing up to a complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." That pleasure was put to the test last week, as Rockefeller withstood the most intense interrogation of his career, covering almost every possible substantive issue and personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller...
...powerful man in the country." Rocky replied that Jay also said, "Rockefellers always get their way." Jay, in fact, was defeated when he ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1972. Pressured to ask other members of the Rockefeller family to reveal their financial holdings, Nelson said, hesitantly, that he would give...
Where are all the friends of Nelson Rockefeller, those of us who know him and admire his record, his outstanding capabilities, his international stature, his dedication to his country? Where are we now when he needs us, when he is being investigated more carefully than if he were Public Enemy...
...almost a scene from a Nelson Rockefeller campaign. There were no knishes or hot dogs; the former New York Governor did not yell, "Hiya, fella!" But he was at his breezy best as he moved through the Senate committee room smiling broadly, shaking hands, slapping backs as if he did not have a care in the world, when in fact all that he had worked for in politics was at stake. His nomination for the vice presidency had been jeopardized by disclosures that he had given more than $2 million in loans and gifts to associates, most of them public...
Hasty Decision. The Senators could not understand why Rockefeller did so much more for William J. Ronan than for anybody else. Ronan, who serves as an adviser to the Rockefeller family at $100,000 a year, received $625,000 in gifts and canceled loans from Nelson over a period of 16 years...