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14 Jul 2017, 2:45 am by Scott Bomboy
Instead, Ford made the transition to the presidency in 1974, with as Albert second-in-line to the White House for a brief period until Nelson Rockefeller was approved by Congress as Ford’s Vice President. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 3:08 pm
Rockefeller, Jr., did not object to being called "senator from Standard Oil. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 2:55 am by NCC Staff
Nelson Rockefeller was also involved in an advisory role. [read post]
4 Oct 2012, 4:48 pm by Georgialee Lang
He escaped death, however, when he discovered a legal loophole that compelled Governor Nelson Rockefeller to commute his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 9:34 am by Scott Bomboy
In 1975, for example, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller ignored advice from Senate Parliamentarian Floyd Riddick about the proper procedure for handing a vote about changing the Senate’s filibuster rules. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 9:27 am by Scott Bomboy
In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller ignored advice from Senate Parliamentarian Floyd Riddick about the proper procedure for handing a vote about changing the Senate’s filibuster rules. [read post]
21 May 2011, 1:27 pm by LawDiva
He escaped death, however, when he discovered a legal loophole that compelled Governor Nelson Rockefeller to commute his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
12 Nov 2018, 10:03 am by Scott Bomboy
In 1974, Congress approved the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President during a lame-duck session. [read post]
14 May 2007, 6:43 pm
  On that point I'm reminded of what someone once said of Nelson Rockefeller -- (I'm paraphrasing here) if he said you were the best assistant he'd ever had, it meant you were doing OK, and if he said you were doing fine you should have your desk cleaned out by the end of the day. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 3:05 am by NCC Staff
In 1974, Congress approved the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President during a lame-duck session. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 6:26 am by Marie S. Newman
" The profile summarizes Morgenthau's life as follows:Morgenthau is a figure of tantalizing paradoxes: a reedy patrician who became a gravelly voiced, profane prosecutor; the scion of a wealthy family and graduate of Deerfield, Amherst and Yale who spent his career confronting every variety of urban depravity; a Jew, proud of his heritage, whose loss to Nelson Rockefeller in the 1962 governor’s race was once attributed to his not knowing what a knish was; a… [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 8:50 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Nelson Rockefeller (R) used the extension of the sales tax – introduced just a few years before – to promote large welfare programs and public works projects. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 9:55 am by Eugene Volokh
Yes, Gerald Ford [and Nelson Rockefeller were] confirmed as vice president by the House and Senate meeting separately, but that doesn't mean the separate sessions were constitutionally required. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 7:34 am
In the 1970s, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller reportedly suggested buying Greenland for its mineral resources.... [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 1:32 pm by Jack Goldsmith
Following Nixon’s resignation, both Gerald Ford and his vice-presidential choice, Nelson Rockefeller, released their tax returns to Congress as part of their confirmation process under the 25th Amendment. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 9:46 am by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
Democrats to watch will be Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Bob Casey (Pennsylvania), Tim Johnson (South Dakota), Tom Carper (Delaware), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), Kent Conrad (North Dakota), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Jim Webb (Virginia), Ben Nelson (Nebraska), Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow (Michigan) and John Rockefeller and Joe Manchin (West Virginia). [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1964 he became one of six national directors for Nelson Rockefeller’s Republican presidential campaign and later became special assistant for community affairs when Rockefeller was re-elected governor of New York in 1966. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 3:49 am by SHG
Capping sentences at 20 years isn’t a radical notion, but an extremely conservative one, returning our sentencing regime to the days before Nelson Rockefeller had his brainstorm and we fell prey to our lesser gut instincts that we could harsh our way out of the crack epidemic. [read post]