Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nelson Rockefeller did not seem overly amused that he had withdrawn from consideration as Vice President in order to appease the conservatives, and now found Reagan turning to a running mate even more liberal than he. Said Rocky: "The pureblood conservatives-the ones I've come across-will not accept a voting record like Schweiker...
...half of another from running again, and Ford in January will have served almost 2½ years of Nixon's second term. So in picking a running mate, Ford may also be selecting the future leader of the party, a factor that argues against such aging men as Nelson Rockefeller (67) and Reagan...
...highly regarded but little known. Ray is personally close to Ford, chairman of the convention platform committee-and also obscure in national terms. Rhodes is a nonabrasive conservative with slight appeal outside the South and West. Missing from the lineup are such more or less liberal favorites as Nelson Rockefeller and Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, who have fared poorly in delegate polls...
...LOOKS as if the election year will be bland, but you couldn't have guessed that last fall. At that time, it seemed as if the 1976 presidential election might pit Nelson Rockefeller against Hubert Humphrey, a struggle that could only have been designed by the collaborating imaginations of R. Crumb and Karl Marx. "Big Capital squares off against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union...
...small English and French peace-keeping fleet aroused the suspicion of a large Turkish fleet at Navarino. The Turks, who had never learned gunnery, opened fire. They were cut to pieces, and the Sultan's domination came to an end. Author Howarth, an English naval historian (Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch), writes of it all wonderingly, although not flippantly. His book is good mean fun for readers who are tired of the posturings of warriors and statesmen - then...