Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while I was Governor of California, I had a similar situation, which hurt me all the days of my governorship. I am referring to the case of Caryl Chessman...
...officers and other Government officials that makes policy recommendations to the President. This would be a logical starting role for a man who served 15 years as Governor of New York. As Washington Post Columnist George Will put it last week in a somewhat backhanded compliment, Rockefeller's governorship was "a protracted seminar on the ability of problems to resist solutions, and the ability of solutions to aggravate problems ... The knowledge of what doesn't work is invaluable in Government, and Rockefeller...
...deal with the basic issues. Meanwhile Reinecke continues at his various jobs, which include voting positions on the University of California board of regents and the state lands commission. Although no serious complications now seem likely, Ronald Reagan's frequent out-of-state speechmaking trips technically shift the governorship to the next in line. After one such recent trip, James R. Mills, the state senate president pro tern, complained, "for the first time in history, no one knew who the Governor was. If Ed Reinecke didn't legally succeed to the powers of the Governor, then...
Seeking a new political start, Nixon challenged the popular Edmund ("Pat") Brown for the governorship of California in 1962, but was beaten by 300,000 votes (out of 5,850,000). Fatigued and haggard, Nixon mounted a podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel the following morning and, to the astonishment of the assembled newsmen, lashed out angrily at them. "Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference...
...another Pat Nixon. Appearing on television when her husband conceded to John Kennedy in 1960, she struggled to stifle deep sobs. Her friends saw her cry during that period for the first and last time. Having seen her husband defeated in 1960 and again, in a bid for the governorship of California, in 1962, she made it quietly clear six years later that she did not want him to run for President. But she did not oppose his running for a second term...