Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive committee of the Harvard Republican Club last night passed a policy statement asking Nelson A. Rockefeller to withdraw himself from consideration for the vice-presidency...
...statement was a revision of last week's proposal, which called for President Ford to withdraw Rockefeller's nomination and for Congress to vote against...
...House Judiciary Committee-Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Don Edwards of California and Charles B. Rangel of New York-said that their doubts about Rockefeller had deepened. So, too, had the misgivings of some Republican conservatives. Senator William L. Scott, a conservative Republican from Virginia, called on Rockefeller to withdraw. Some conservatives hold a grudge for his refusal to back Senator Barry Goldwater for President in 1964; some liberals blame him in part for the deaths of 32 prisoners and eleven hostages during the 1971 revolt at New York's Attica Prison. It seemed possible that the two groups...
...Executive Committee of the Harvard Republican Club last night considered a proposed policy statement which would urge President Ford to withdraw his nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller for vice-president...
...Industrial Relations, disclosed that he might not vote for Wilson this time because the party "had been sold in bondage to the Trades Union Congress." At a televised press conference, Shirley Williams, Minister of Consumer Affairs in the outgoing government, said that she would quit politics if Britain should withdraw from the Common Market in accordance with a referendum that Wilson has promised to hold at the behest of his party's left wing and their union supporters...