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Next day House and Senate leaders, Cabinet members and reporters crowded into the Oval Office for Ford's announcement of his vice-presidential nominee, Nelson Rockefeller (see cover story page 14). The President had carefully touched all political bases beforehand, personally notifying the runners-up, Republican National Chairman George Bush and NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, telephoning former President Nixon in San Clemente and the congressional leadership. At 10:04 a.m., Ford and Rockefeller entered the room and clasped each other's waists as the President introduced his nominee, saying that "it was a tough call for a tough...
...only White House aide who participated in Ford's selection of a nominee for Vice President. He tabulated the names recommended by Republican Congressmen, Governors and others, and later discreetly checked out the three finalists, though Ford never confided in him that he had settled on Nelson Rockefeller. All through the process, Hartmann adamantly refused to talk with reporters...
...American public life have sought the presidency with more fervor than Nelson Rockefeller. "When you think of all I had," he once explained, "what else was there to aspire to?" Nothing would divert him from his ambition, least of all the vice presidency, which he twice spurned when the nomination was offered to him. "The Vice President is stand-by equipment," he complained. "I don't think I'm cut out to be a No. 2 guy." But last week, pending Congress's approval, that is what he finally accepted. At 66, after three decades of bruising...
Nautical Gait. For the first time in years, Rockefeller enjoyed a summer reminiscent of childhood. He passed leisurely days at Seal Harbor with Happy and their two children, Nelson, 10, and Mark, 7. To those who know him, Rockefeller had never seemed more fit. His 185 Ibs. are evenly distributed over his 5-ft. 10-in. frame, and there is no hint of a paunch. With his rolling, nautical gait, protruding brow and drooping eyelids, he has the perpetual look of a man facing a severe northeaster-or could it be constant political gales...
...hecklers. When the crowd tried to eject one of them, he protested. Then he quieted his antagonist: "Courtesy requires you to wait until I complete my speech. One of the great traditions of this country is freedom of speech and another is courtesy." Right under that Newport tent, Nelson Rockefeller began the healing process for which he had been chosen...