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...Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller...
Nothing delights me so much 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." Thus did Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller explain his political outlook during his confirmation hearings for Vice President in 1974. The words also summed up his whole political career, from his apprenticeship under a Democratic Administration to his four terms as New York Governor to his last moments in the limelight during a brief stint as Vice President. He truly loved problems and, with an exuberant confidence that few politicians...
Rockefeller was born to wealth, power and privilege but not to political ambition. The arts, finance, philanthropy were the family concerns. Yet a reading problem, dyslexia, forced young Nelson out of the library into more active pursuits and made him a confirmed extravert. He struggled through school in Manhattan, then managed to make Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth in 1930. After graduation he married Mary Todhunter Clark, a member of a Philadelphia Main Line family that summered near the Rockefeller home on the coast of Maine. The couple's world tour had the trappings of a state visit...
...voting, from giving politicians a chance to correct the mistakes of other politicians who were elected in the first place to undo the modifications of the reforms of the earlier politicians, the parties will turn to revered senior statesmen, men with images, with romantic support, with possibility--and nominate Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey...
Dartmouth--Amy Nelson 5 1-3 11; Laurie Center 1 0-0 2; Gail Koziara 9 1-2 19; Kathie Delisle 2 3-4 7; Linda Duenzo 7 4-5 18; Sue Brooks...