Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Rockefeller and U.N. Ambassador William Scranton urged the Ford campaign advisers to oppose the amendment. "Nelson and I both thought it was very bad, an attack on the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger foreign policy," Scranton said. In a conference in the sky suite, Burch, Tower, Senators Hugh Scott and Roman Hruska tried to still the urge for more combat. They reasoned that Ford had just won the big test, he might well lose a second, there was no need to dilute the night's good work. Nearly alone, Rocky sought some softening language. The Reaganites were in no mood...
...Nelson Polsby, a top political scientist at Berkeley, argues that the Republicans are so weak that the U.S. no longer has a real two-party system: "I would call it a 1½-party system." Robert Teeter, President Ford's chief pollster, believes that the G.O.P. has reached "permanent minority status." According to this theory it will eke out a presidential
...with tears. The gentle reggae tune Rivers of Babylon blows a few of the clouds away, but nowhere does Ronstadt's lusty soprano soar free. Her song selection needs more variety. Yet her bewitching versions of the title song by Warren Zevon (TIME, Aug. 2) and of Willie Nelson's Crazy have penetrating melancholy. It just may be that Ronstadt is a daughter of the blues...
...YORK. Strongly influenced by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, the state had been expected to deliver all but a score or so of its votes to Ford. After the Reagan-Schweiker visit, Reagan gained only two new votes, neither attributable to his selection of Schweiker. TIME'S count showed 127 Ford votes in the delegation, 20 for Reagan and seven uncommitted...
This isn't old hat for them, though. In 1968 the Louisiana Republican chairman, Tom Stagg, said he though they were genuine members of Nelson Rockefeller's staff. They had come down to report on the state convention and apparently kept flashing those old Rockefeller polls that always said Rockefeller could win and Nixon couldn't. Stagg said he couldn't believe they were reporters, much less "objective." The Rock owns a piece of them...