That is a modern record. And you have to remember when he was elected in 1959, when he first took office, it was to be regarded as a potential president. All the more so in his case, because of the resources that he brought to the office and because of the personality. One of the hardest things for any historian or biographer to do is to capture, convincingly, on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It is a relative term. And different generations define it differently. How many times was he married . Twice. It certainly affected his chances to be president. I would argue that he would was probably in the wrong party. He never had been nominated by the Republican Party after 1960. But there is no doubt in a way that today we would find very difficult to understand. How long was he married to his first wife . Over 30 years. They were married a week after he graduated from dartmouth, and they divorced in 1961. How long was he married to his second wife . 15 years, or so. How many chi
Rockefeller. He explores the wealth, privilege, and power on the Nelson Rockefeller family, the influence on the Republican Party over the years, and his time as governor of new york state. Smith also talks about rockefeller outside of politics, his marriage to Happy Rockefeller, and the murky circumstances of his death. Richard norton smith, after 14 years of work on your book, what would you tell somebody who does not know about Nelson Rockefeller, who he is, what he did . He was a significant, indeed historically significant, figure in a number of fields. On one level, i gave him the name of rockefeller republicanism, that i would describe as existing views of tens of millions of americans who may not be aware of the phrase. In a nutshell, a combination of policies that are fiscally responsible and socially liberal. He said himself that he had a republican head and a democratic heart. Nead esposito, who was one of them the more improbable of rockefellers allies, he said that he was
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Knowing it would hurt goldwater in the november election . That is something that occurred to the goldwater people at the time. I have researched this for my book. Effective that afternoon, rockefeller rehearsed that speech and they had no idea that it was going to yen rate the response that it did. Might have been naive on their part but the notion that rockefeller, you know, in advance planned this to show up, if you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that th
If you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that thought of itself conservative. Nixonts skill was to thread the needle, to be just conservative enough happy to 68 was a turbulent year a fairly moderate stoliberal wing. It was a tightrope act the book available at cspan. Org. Pat tree arkansas George Washington and the new american nation, their biography of Thomas E Dewey and the triumph of Herbert Hoover and your work along with robert dole laughing almost all