Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, Republican politicians fell in line behind their new party chief. Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, who had already urged clemency for Nixon, called Ford's pardon "an act of conscience, compassion and courage." The pardon will undoubtedly be controversial in the short run, Rockefeller said, but in the long run it will speed the nation's recovery from Watergate. "I don't think the people want Nixon to stand trial or to be convicted," agreed House Republican Leader John Rhodes. "I think Ford is trying to defuse this thing and bring us back together." Among...
Among his few contacts with others were half a dozen or so phone conversations, including one with California Governor Ronald Reagan in which Nixon denounced the choice of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President. The former President's few visitors found him brisk and alert on some days, depressed and digressive on others. Repeatedly he asked his callers two questions: 1) Was he right in resigning? and 2) Would he face prosecution for acts he had committed as President...
...Nelson Rockefeller Vice President...
...supposedly as intelligent and down to earth as Gerald Ford can pick Nelson Rockefeller for Vice President is beyond comprehension, unless he (Ford) has strings attached...
...integration. Elsewhere, there were scattered disruptions. In rural Plaistow, N.H., teachers seeking higher salaries and greater control over curriculums continued a seven-month strike-longest in the nation's history-by picketing opening-day classes at the local Timberlane High School. In Racine, Wis., School Superintendent C. Richard Nelson closed the city's 47 public schools two days after opening because teachers had decided to underline their contract demands by refusing to perform administrative duties...