Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979), an heir to the enormous Standard Oil fortune amassed by his grandfather, forsook business for a career in state and national politics, which included four terms...
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Rockefeller is one of the most famous names in American business, finance, and philanthropy (charity). Three members of the family also became active politics. One of them, Nelson A. Rockefeller, se...
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When it has come to the serious business of selecting presidential nominees, the Republican Party has been far more orderly, organized and predictable than the Democrats. In the last 35 years, Geor...
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There is an unspoken but long-understood historical tradition among both the Republican and Democratic parties about whom they decide to send as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. With the ...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - California was in the grips of election drama
Thursday as a series of heated political battles erupted on the eve
of the state's most important primary r...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - California was in the grips of election drama
Thursday as a series of heated political battles erupted on the eve
of the state's most important primary r...
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The late humorist Fred Allen wasn't thinking of Albany when he entitled his memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion. But the phase neatly describes the experience of recent New York Governors who saw the sta...
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And yet, what with anti-smoking laws, Bill and Monica’s kinky caper and a universal disinclination to call a spade a spade, the phallic interpretation is st...
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When Donald Trump completed his sprawling luxury development near Riverside Park, a few celebrity buyers headed over there to grab sleek high-rise apartments overlooking the Hudson River.
Talk-sho...
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Mexico City (dpa) - A mural about the US intervention in Guatemala
was rolled up in a vault for five decades.
But this Friday, it will emerge as the star of an exhib...
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Republican John McCain says he's "not overjoyed" by his recent fundraising but that it's not that big a deal."If money mattered, I think (Nelson) Rockefeller would be president _ would have been pr...
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
The Rockefellers
Another 1964 for Republicans?
