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Eventually, cracks appeared in the Administration's monolithic resistance. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns expressed growing anxiety; Vice President Nelson Rockefeller broke with the President and urged aid to the city. Even hard-line Treasury Secretary William Simon quietly began to ponder a plan for assistance. Some give was also apparent on the other side. Carey and his financial advisers, who gained great power over the city, ordered deeper cuts in the city budget and girded for an epic battle over a tax increase. The Governor had to overcome the opposition of upstate Republicans in the legislature as well...
...After being charged with intimidating a candidate and interfering with federal officers, he was sent to a mental hospital for observation. Officials believed that Carvin was the same man who telephoned the Secret Service office in Denver on Nov. 10 and threatened to harm President Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller or Reagan unless authorities released Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, who is now on trial for attempting to assassinate Ford...
...Sunday the King presided over an official public state funeral, which was attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, Jordan's King Hussein, and Monaco's Prince Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There...
...Ramsey Clark, then Attorney General, appointed an independent panel of four professors of medicine to study the autopsy materials. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on CIA Activities within the U.S. selected another panel of five physicians to do the same thing last spring. All of the experts on both panels concluded that Kennedy had been struck from above and behind by two shots...
Senator Ted Kennedy, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and James Farley, 87, Franklin Roosevelt's Postmaster General and Spivak's first Meet the Press TV guest back in 1947. The bonhomie pleased Spivak but did not soften him up. "Somebody once told me," he recalled with satisfaction, " 'you've made a career out of saying things other people would get punched in the nose for suggesting...