Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President. He declared a policy of leniency toward Viet Nam War-era draft evaders and deserters. He let it be known that he "probably" will run for President in 1976. He worked from early morning to late at night, signing bills, giving speeches, issuing proclamations, and meeting with an enormous number of people in the White House and on Capitol Hill...
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...