Nelson Rockefeller

Mad Men: Danger! Slippery When Soapy (Especially in Dark Shadows)

William Bradley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Culture News, 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Advertising, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Conrad Hilton, Television News, Mad Men, John Lindsay, Entertainment News

If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die.

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Mad Men: Whose Side Is Time On, Anyway?

William Bradley | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Betty Draper Francis, New York, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Vietnam War, Jon Hamm, Rolling Stones, Culture News, 2012 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Don Draper, January Jones, Mad Men, Richard Nixon, John Lindsay, Entertainment News

The roar of generational change got ever louder in this week's Mad Men, so much so that Roger Sterling plaintively wondered when things will go back to normal.

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Rockefeller's Revenge

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: US Supreme Court, Mccain-Feingold, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Nelson Rockefeller, Moderate Republicans, Citizens United, Edward Brooke, Thomas Friedman, Karl Rove, Koch Brothers, Politics News

Surely, there are some moderate moneymen who miss the days of Nelson Rockefeller and Edward Brooke, who recall a time when the GOP cherished common sense and revered rationality.

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Of Another Day and Another Romney: The Year When Conservative Republicans Proudly Accepted "Defeat"

Todd Brewster | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, Newt Gingrich, Barry Goldwater, Tea Party, Lyndon B. Johnson, Politics News

It was 48 years ago and in the annals of American presidential election lore, but looking back at the campaign of 1964 reveals some dramatic differences and striking similarities to this year's contest, as well as some familiar last names.

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Forty Years After: The Attica Prison Uprising

Anthony Papa | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Nelson Rockefeller, Riverside Church, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison, Attica, Rehabilitation, Cornel West, Attica Is All of US, New York News

The uprising at Attica was the start of a movement that sought to bring to light the horrible conditions of imprisonment. Surprisingly many of the horrid conditions that existed back then still plague the prison system today.

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Hugh Carey: New York Mensch

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.11.2011

He had the wit of Jimmy Walker, the vision of Al Smith, the courage of FDR and the energy of Nelson Rockefeller. When New York's history is written, Hugh Leo Carey will have his place as the hero of a dark decade.

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A Rose for Parks

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joan Davidson, Frances Beinecke, Andrew Cuomo, Carol Ash, Kim Elliman, Ned Sullivan, Robert Moses, Herbert Lehman, Nelson Rockefeller, Rose Harvey, Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, Adrian Benepe, Laurance Rockefeller, New York News

It was particularly satisfying for me to learn that Governor Cuomo has appointed Rose H. Harvey (park name "Harvest") as New York State Parks Commissioner.

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The Governor's Speech

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Berger Commission, David Paterson, Eric Schneiderman, Stephen Berger, Glass-Steagall Act, Nelson Rockefeller, Betty Furness, Martin Van Buren, Charles Evans Hughes, Mario Cuomo, Bess Myerson, Eliot Spitzer, New York News

The wrenching disappointments of the Spitzer and Paterson administrations are now behind us; the ever-mounting budget deficit is before us.

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The Ex-President Inside Out and Always Centered, Revealed by His Grandson

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Anyone who loves politics, history or even the pop culture of the Sixties will be startled by the new perspective on Ike afforded by the genuinely intimate glimpses here.

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Where Have All the Moderates Gone?

Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Fred Karger, Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Civility is gone today, and I feel in great part because of the lack of moderates in both parties.

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Mad Men: "The Summer Man" Is Clearing His Head

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Gary Hart, John Lindsay, George Mcgovern, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Entertainment News

It doesn't look like Matt Weiner is much of a Beatles fan. We've had Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, and now the Rolling Stones ... but the lads from Liverpool have been relegated to Christmas gifts for Don's kids bought by his former secretary.

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Capturing the Birth of the UN on Film

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations, Franklin Roosevelt UN, Nelson Rockefeller, Un, UN Founding, Alger Hiss, World News

Why has the story of the UN never made it into the cinematic arena? For all of its notoriety, few people know where the organization came from, how it was born, and why it grew into so influential a body.

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The Self-Destruction of the Republican Party

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, John McCain, Teabaggers, Rand Paul, Ronald Reagan, British Petroleum, Obama, Civil Rights, Dwight Eisenhower, Oil Spill, Richard Nixon, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Nelson Rockefeller, Socialism, Tea Party, Republicans, Howard Baker, Politics News

From a political standpoint, the Tea Party extremists are a godsend for Democratic politicians, since they offer up candidates like Rand Paul, who are the poster children for regressive, even racist, political ideologies.

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Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Col. H. H. Rogers, James Rorimer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitain Museum of Art, John Russell Pope, Artful-Tom, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Standard Oil of Ohio, Thomas Hoving, John D. Rockefeller, The-Cloisters, Harlem-Lost-and-Found, Tiffany's, William-Pahlmann, Wendy Burden, Walter-Hoving, Jesus Christ, Dead-End-Gene-Pool, Nelson Rockefeller, Nancy Hoving, William A. M. Burden, Making the Mummies Dance, Judy Collins, Books News

The tea sandwiches were delectable. Those in attendance, mostly establishment types, were mostly stylishly dressed. Mr. Hoving would certainly have approved.

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Black Elegance!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norma Jean Darden, Jill Nelson, Al Sharpton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Pitsburgh Courier, Valerie Jo Bradley, Sherry Bronfman, Evelyn Elizabeth Long Cunningham, Mayor David Dinkens, Willie the Lion Smith, State Senator Bill Perkins, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Willard, Fidel Castro, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Jonathan Capehart, Adurey Smaltz, Winthrop Rockefeller, Vertner Tandy, Dick Parsons, Todd Roulette, Robin Bell Stevens, New York Times, Malcolm X, Nelson Rockefeller, St. Philip's Episcopal Church, E. Stennett, Maya Angelou, Lana Turner, Mollie Moon, Joan Sandler, Style News

Naturally, as the city's oldest, most fashionable African American congregation for two centuries, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was bound to be 94 year old Mrs. Cunningham's parish.

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What Progressives Can Learn From the Tea Partiers

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Tea Partiers will vote overwhelmingly Republican in November -- unless they stay home in protest. To gain their support, the GOP will have to nominate candidates who are less electable and more radical.

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Class Warfare: Ruth Reichl vs. Rachel Ray

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Condé Nast, which sells its advertising based on the size and demographics of its subscribers, decided to go with mass instead of class, and closed Gourmet down.

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Mad Men: "Souvenir" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Betty Draper, 1963, Grace Kelly, Conrad Hilton, Rome, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Virna Lisi, Don Draper, Nelson Rockefeller, Conservation, Bryn Mawr, Los Angeles, New York, La Dolce Vita, Entertainment News

This episode was a big showcase for January Jones, a stunning beauty who is also a very good actress. Forget Don, this was the Betty Draper show.

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Mad Men: "Seven Twenty Three" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, Military Draft, Liberal Republicans, Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Morse, Jon Hamm, New York, Elisabeth Moss, Andy Warhol, Roger Sterling, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, Advertising, Don Draper, January Jones, John Slattery, Rockefeller Republicans, John F. Kenendy, Bert Cooper, Mad Men, Peggy Olsen, Environmentalism, David Ogilvy, Conrad Hilton, Mad Men Episode Recap, Mad Men Recap, Mad Men Season Three, Entertainment News

What "Seven Twenty Three" is is Don Draper's Waterloo. Or I should say, Dick Whitman's Waterloo. That's the day in 1963 on which Don Draper/Dick Whitman gets lassoed.

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New York Senate Debacle: The Powerbrokers of 1965 and Pissants of 2009

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert F. Wagner Jr., New York Politics, Joseph Zaretzki, Pedro Espada, 2009, New York, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Bronston, 1965, Hiram Monserrate, New York State Senate, Nelson Rockefeller, Julian Erway, Anthony Travia, Stanley Steingut, Robert Kennedy, Alan Hevesi, New York News

The leadership stalemate of 1965 occurred at the start of the session, when bill expiration deadlines weren't looming. Pedro Espada's defection (facilitated by Hiram Monserrate) flushed months of hard-fought negotiations and legislative footwork down the toilet.

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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The New Know Nothings

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011

The Republican Party likes to remember Abraham Lincoln. And so they should. It's a nice memory and brings credit to them. But there is another strand that runs through their history.

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