Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller announces that as a public service to the nation, he is organizing a National Commission to Make Me President If I Decide I Want to Run. Rockefeller also declares that Standard Oil will boycott the United States. Japan, Western Europe, and Harvard if President Ford fails to offer him a cabinet position...
According to Manhattan's Alan R. Nelson Research, Inc., the answer is no. In fact, the firm reports, after questioning 2,500 men on the product-pushing talents of 192 sports figures, consumers are far more likely to trust endorsements by less flamboyant personalities...
...best-known sports personalities were, in order: Retired Baseball Star Willie Mays, Namath and ex-Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali. But when asked which athlete's endorsements they would trust most, the men ranked Mays 31st, Namath 156th and Ali 190th. Nelson Research concluded that an athlete's potential success as an endorser depends not on his skill or fame but on his "likeability" by the public...
...free!" chortled Nelson Rockefeller as he resigned last week after 15 years as the generally exciting, expansive and expensive Governor of New York. The job passed automatically to Rocky's loyal if colorless Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, 59. It was Wilson who initially pushed Rockefeller toward the executive mansion in 1958 when, as an influential state assemblyman, he took Rocky around to various Republican leaders and trumpeted him as the man who could unseat Democrat Averell Harriman. Now it was finally Wilson's turn to step into the limelight...
...comforting presence of strong, decent, sensible Vice President Gerald Ford weighs against Nixon. So now, in a remote way, does Nelson Rockefeller, who has resigned as Governor of New York. Rockefeller will head the National Commission on Critical Choices for America, which cannot help focusing on the inadequacies of Nixon's domestic and political leadership...