Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, many liberal and moderate Republicans were disturbed by Nelson Rockefeller's announcement that he was withdrawing from consideration as Ford's Vice President in 1976. Despite Ford's denials, the consensus in Washington was that the President had got the word to Rocky to jump before he was pushed. Ford's purpose: to keep conservative Republicans from deserting to Reagan...
...Senate, Washington Democrat Henry Jackson and New York Republican James Buckley. Says a Buckley aide: "Kissinger's office was keeping the book on Schlesinger. There was a minor industry in the State Department of putting the blocks to him." The suspicions were mutual. Early this year Kissinger told Nelson Rockefeller he was convinced that Schlesinger was out to get his job as Secretary of State. Kissinger and Schlesinger began finding reasons to skip their once-a-week scheduled breakfasts. The last was held on Sept...
Nothing so became Nelson Rockefeller in the vice presidency of the U.S. as his renunciation of it. In a week of tawdry infighting and ugly speculation, he struck one of the few grace notes...
Reagan is expected to announce his candidacy in Washington on Nov. 20. Without Nelson Rockefeller to kick around any more, Reagan has lost a major selling point. But he scarcely seemed deterred, saying of Rocky's dropping out: "I am not appeased." Though Ford is in command of most of the Republican Party apparatus, Reagan has undeniable grass-roots appeal. Admits one of the President's campaign chiefs: "Jerry doesn't excite Republican conservatives, and they're the ones who will work day and night. Reagan can excite them...
Those beefy chorines in numbered jerseys are really Los Angeles Rams Cody Jones, Fred Dryer, Bob Klein, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks, Tom Mack, Bill Nelson and Jack Youngblood. The players are holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show...