Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operations rooms lit by auxiliary power, summoned 5,000 men back to duty, had a force of 15,000 on hand before the long night ended. Because the alarm system was disconnected, the Fire Department sent trucks lumbering through the streets looking for fires. On orders from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 7,000 National Guardsmen reported for duty, and some 5,000 civil defense workers also pitched...
...NELSON ROCKEFELLER. "Could you tell us what are the duties of the Governor of New York?" "I haven't the slightest idea." "What are you planning to give your wife for her next birthday?" "The State of Connecticut and the State of New York . . ." The Governor is interrupted: "Did I understand you correctly-you're going to give your wife . . ." Rocky: "Both states [hesitation] and the people in those two states...
John Lindsay's parents were descended from pure-blooded WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)-though, as Lindsay is fond of pointing out, "If you are really hip, the correct term is ASP; all Anglo-Saxons are white, so why be redundant?" His father, George Nelson Lindsay, was the son of a Scotch-Irish brickmaker from the Isle of Wight who went broke in 1884 and emigrated to New York. John Lindsay'? mother, Eleanor Vliet Lindsay, was the daughter of a Dutch-descended New Jersey carpentry contractor whose ancestors dated back to colonial times...
...Governor Nelson Rockefeller's apparent forthcoming defeat has not yet elicited much open comment. An interesting exception is a letter sent earlier this year to Senator Javits by State Senator John Hughes of Syracuse. Hughes, the senior Republican in the Senate and a conservative, urged Javits to run for Governor to prevent "a defeat for the Republican Party from which it would not soon recover." Hughes certainly would not have written the letter and acknowledged it publicly if he were not convinced that Nelson Rockefeller is going to lose very badly indeed...
...York Democrats are thrashing around, preparing for a statewide victory they have not really earned. The well-oiled New York Republican machine, perhaps the most brainy and certainly the richest state political party, is dissolving for reasons beyond its control. Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage will cost the Republicans the Governorship, and reapportionment will put the legislature beyond their reach. Their only hope is John V. Lindsay, who will face a tough fight for reelection in 1969, and who has no opening for higher office in 1966, 1968 (unless Javits retires or runs for Vice-President), 1970 (when Robert Kennedy will...