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...that way with the voters, fortunately, because I'm sitting here as one of two people who might be the next President. I know it comes out that way with some, but not with me and not with them. It may have something to do with being Vice President. Nelson Rockefeller told me he had his legs cut off by the White House staff. "I hate this job," he said. But I like the satisfaction of just walking down the hall and telling the President what I think...
After graduating from Yale, Bush succumbed to an itch of the Eastern privileged that Nelson Aldrich has recently described in his book Old Money -- the Teddy Roosevelt yearning to go West and do something physical. Bush presented the matter to himself less as an opportunity than an ordeal -- he thought first of farming, and only then of physical work in oil fields. It was a way of continuing the effete cure on a grander scale; the ironic thing in Bush's case is that the cure would just confirm, in some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough...
This was a period when Eastern Establishment Republicans were figures of hate and ridicule to "real" Republicans who backed Goldwater, the year Charles Percy and George Romney were lumped with Nelson Rockefeller as traitors to the party. Yet here, in Houston, was a Republican looking more like a Saltonstall than a Lyndon Johnson, but who was as hard as Barry against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Once again, Bush was extending the spirit of the tough summer job. Rich kids are supposed to go out and join the workers in the field, but they are also supposed to come home...
...reward for his service under fire, Bush hoped that President Ford would give him the job dangled as part of Nixon's original wooing process, the vice presidency. But that went to Nelson Rockefeller, and Bush -- ironically, given his denunciation of the People's Republic when he was at the U.N. -- became America's envoy to China...
...team of five top University officials plotted legal strategy for Harvard's case. Two lawyers from the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, Nelson G. Ross and David M. Mandel, were the University's main counsel. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 arrived on the scene Tuesday, and bounced back and forth from his seat in the audience to give whispered advice to the lawyers...