Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's lawyers, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47 and Nelson G. Ross, both of Ropes and Gray, called Hale Champion, financial vice president of the University, and John B. Butler, director of personnel, as witnesses, in an effort to show that Harvard is a big, centralized place, with the Medical Area only one part of a larger structure...
...defense resisting any change was so craftily mounted, that the modification amounted to a significant victory for the more liberal factions of both parties. The fight was led by Democratic Senators Walter Mondale of Minnesota and James Pearson of Kansas, with an invaluable assist from Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, whose partisanship as presiding officer enraged his conservative critics...
...Late. The conservative grievances against the Administration have been rapidly multiplying. Conservatives fault Ford for his budget deficit, his compromises with Democrats in Congress, his amnesty program, his pursuit of detente, his appointment of moderates and liberals to office, especially Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Nothing that Rocky has done-not his hawkishness on defense, not his firmness on law-and-order, not his fiscal moderation -has managed to erase his liberal image among the unforgiving right. Says Ronald Docksai, chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student and youth organization with about 50,000 members: "The choice...
During the turbulent days following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, the New York State Urban Development Corporation was born. At the urging of then Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the state legislature established an agency to rebuild ghettos in New York by financing low-cost housing and civic and commercial projects...
...Amnesty. Like many other witnesses, Wicker believes that the bloodshed and the brutal reprisals by guards and state troopers would have been postponed and possibly avoided if only New York State's Governor Nelson Rockefeller had agreed to come to Attica. At the time, Rockefeller said he did not believe he had the constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees...