Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that most controversial of politicians, never had an enemy in the world. Old rivals were as eager as party job holders to pay tribute to the President. California Governor Ronald Reagan, his own presidential ambitions behind him, readily agreed to chair the convention until Tuesday afternoon. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, having moved far enough rightward to satisfy the President, was happy to put Nixon in nomination...
...opposed the President's war policy. There can be no faintheart on the war running with Richard Nixon." The same kind of reasoning was also applied by some White House aides to Illinois Senator Charles Percy. Other intriguing possibilities passed over by Nixon include New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who has drifted toward the right recently and had apparently bridged the once bitter breach separating him and Nixon, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Interior Secretary Rogers Morton...
...feeler to Mondale. The Minnesotan let McGovern know that he wanted to run for re-election to the Senate. Next he called Ribicoff, who also demurred, preferring, at his age, 62, to remain in the Senate. Again McGovern tried, this time telephoning Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson; again he was rebuffed. Nelson said that he had promised his wife he would remain in the Senate. During yet another afternoon call, McGovern informed Kennedy that he was still serious about Kevin White, who had already told McGovern he was available. Delighted, the mayor made tentative arrangements to fly to Miami with...
...Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One federal judge in Wisconsin, taking a slightly bolder view, recently wrote, "I am persuaded that the institution of prison probably must end." At last month's meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General, California Deputy Attorney General Nelson Kempsky gave a prosecutor's reaction: "Every time a judge starts thinking about due process for prison inmates, we're in trouble...
...Symonds little hope for fast growth. Before his death last year at age 67, Symonds had turned the utility into a vast conglomerate named Tenneco that does $2.8 billion worth of business annually and reaches into land development, farm machinery, auto parts and shipbuilding. Now his hand-picked successor, Nelson ("Dick") Freeman, is pulling just the kind of surprise about-face that used to delight Symonds' Houston cronies. In an age of power shortages, Tenneco is turning back to supplying energy on a grand scale...