Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since I have announced that I intend to seek re-election in 1970, I fully expect that there will be, as there have been in the past, irresponsible efforts to distort the facts about my health. I hope that TIME and other responsible publications will not fall for this political trick...
Like many of his colleagues in the new Cabinet, Bill Rogers comes to his job both free of the burden of past commitments and unscarred by old fights. Says Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach: "Rogers doesn't have to live with a lot of previously written books." In an interview with TIME Cor respondent Jess Cook Jr., Rogers observed: "I haven't any emotional ties to the past. I'm not associated with any school of thought. Sure, there are some disadvantages in that I don't have the background of others...
...Nelson Rockefeller has served as New York's Governor for ten years, unsuccessfully sought his party's presidential nomination three times and, in past weeks, been passed over for two top posts in the Nixon Cabinet. To some, it seemed, his last hurrah had sounded. Last week Rockefeller put a halt to any premature postmortems by announcing that he intends to run for re-election in 1970. If he succeeds, he will be only the second Governor in New York history to serve uninterruptedly for more than twelve years.* The key to Rockefeller's decision...
...undertake the type of changes that COWI and Ethos seek would expose the administration to criticism from many of its students and alumnae. Only a firm commitment to change would permit Miss Adams and her subordinates to disregard the criticism. The past history of this Wellesley administration gives little reason to expect that such a commitment will be forthcoming
...deferments by law. He said that he was happy with the decision on classification, but "it should have gone farther." The Selective Service Act should be declared unconstitutional, he believes, and he says he does not intend to cooperate with the Selective Service any more now than in the past...