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...puzzled as anybody about Nelson Rockefeller's gifts and loans to his buddies, and about his brother's literary patronage. It smells peculiar, but no one seems to know what these odors mean precisely concerning the vice presidency-except that his confirmation would give us the most generous Veep in history...
...executive committee of the Harvard Republican Club last night passed a policy statement asking Nelson A. Rockefeller to withdraw himself from consideration for the vice-presidency...
...Nelson Rockefeller found himself in a cruel predicament last week. Despite his long record of public service and philanthropy, insinuating leaks had ended any hope that his confirmation as Vice President would be a routine anointment. Instead, a long and partisan squabble was shaping up in Congress, and there seemed to be little that Rockefeller or the Ford Administration could do to head...
...about the fact that the Rockefeller family contributed $200,000 to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Less than a year later, Nixon overruled the Civil Aeronautics Board and allowed Eastern Air Lines to acquire Caribair, a financially troubled airline based in Puerto Rico. At the time, Nelson owned no Eastern stock, but his brother Laurance is currently the airline's largest individual stockholder (with 1.75%). Laurance had sent Nixon a telegram urging him to permit the merger...
Sipping a soft drink as he leaned back in his chair, a shirtsleeved Nelson Rockefeller seemed calm enough last week. But his mood, as he talked to TIME New York Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, was pugnacious, his tone emphatic. When Clark asked, "Are you unhappy?" Rockefeller retorted: "I'm not unhappy. I'm only trying to keep you from being unhappy." Highlights of the interview in Manhattan...