Word: romneys
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Nelson Rockefeller is mentioned for Secretary of Defense because of his credentials as an administrator, and George Romney might get Commerce for the same reason. Robert Finch, Lieutenant Governor of California and one of Nixon's closest friends, will most likely get a Cabinet post-if he wants one. At the moment, his greatest ambition is to become a U.S. Senator. Maurice Stans, Eisenhower's Budget Director, has the inside track for Treasury...
...bombast, of course, was still there. "All the Republican leaders--Lindsay and Rockefeller and Romney and Percy--are all behind us, and we know we're going to win." The predictions of national victory too. But there were other notes. "We know that many people are voting against in this election. We don't want that. There's too much hate, and it shouldn't be vented in an election. We want people to vote...
...peace. In January came the first seizure of a U.S. warship on the high seas in more than 150 years-not by some great naval nation but by North Korea, which escaped unscathed. North Viet Nam launched the Tet offensive, stunning Saigon and temporarily capturing Hue. By February, George Romney was an ex-presidential candidate, while Nelson Rockefeller played Hamlet, thus opening the way for Richard Nixon, the perennial loser, whose chances had been so widely written off. Whoever expected a Senator with a professorial past, who sometimes bored his audiences, to defy the President and win the New Hampshire...
Michigan's George W. Romney, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy pledged their help, while Washington's Daniel Evans, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Colorado's John Love-all three Rockefeller men-signed up for posts on the candidate's "key issues" committee. Nixon, comfortably ensconced at San Diego's Mission Bay resort, talked by phone with John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller, inviting Rocky to his Fifth Avenue apartment (which, as it happens, is right next door to the Governor's) this week for a chat...
...year, as a five-year-old, about all it will get is a change in name, from American to Rambler. It will thus become the latest-and now the only-line to carry the name that won fame in the 1950s when A.M.C. was dueling successfully with what George Romney called the Big Three's "gas-guzzling dinosaurs...