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His supporters booed opponent Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican, when he spoke to them.
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Barry Goldwater won the 1964 Republican nomination probably because he beat Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary.
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Spitzer becomes the first New York governor to resign from office during his term since Nelson Rockefeller quit in 1973.
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By contrast, Ford's selection of Nelson Rockefeller, a congressional outsider, was held up for months by hearings into Rockefeller's finances.
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Powell, who has served under Republican and Democratic presidents, became a Republican in recent years but longed for the Republican Party of Nelson Rockefeller.
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George Romney, the governor of Michigan, a wishy-washy moderate, was obviously unsuitable, to say nothing of the Republican archliberal Nelson Rockefeller, of New York.
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Ted Stevens is one of the last of the Rockefeller Republicans the real thing, as he supported Nelson Rockefeller over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential race.
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Nelson Rockefeller did not have much standing at the convention, and was the symbol of the slippage of the control of the Eastern wing of the Republican Party.
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In 1964, Henry Cabot Lodge topped Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller to win the New Hampshire primary through a write-in campaign fueled by a couple of then-unprecedented statewide mailings.
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Nelson Rockefeller was such a creature.
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Petraeus is registered to vote as a Republican in New Hampshire he once described himself to a friend as a northeastern Republican, in the tradition of Nelson Rockefeller but he said that around 2002, after he became a two-star general, he stopped voting.
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Nelson Rockefeller built SUNY Albany.
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