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Wednesday, September 25, 1974
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Rockefeller defends Attica action, lobbying
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON-Nelson Rockefeller yesterday defended his role in the Attica pdson revolt and in lobbying top Republicans for a Navy aircraft contract.
He also said former President Richard M. Gonin's acceptance of a pardon was supported by the governor.
No major opposition developed to Rickeferl's vice presidential nomination in his second day of testimony before the Rules and Administration Committee.
Rockefeller, the former governor of New York, acknowledged that the huge fortune in the hands of the Rockefeller family is due to the important influence on the nation's economy.
However, he said no such influence had ever been exercised. He declared that as vice president or president he would put the best interests above those of big business.
Rockefeller also said that if he should become president while the cases of
WASHINGTON—Virtually completing reorganization of his top staff, President Ford announced Tuesday he was appointing Donald Rumsfeld as an assistant responsible for coordinating White House operations.
Rumfield, 42, formerly a Republican House member from Illinois, will take up his cabinet-tank post Friday but will continue to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO.
Press Secretary Ronald Nesson said Kumsted, who helped engineer Ford's 1964 model, was a key figure in the program.
Watergate defendants are still pending, he would judge any applications for pardon on his own.
He described Ford's pardon of Nixon an act of compassion and said there was a widespread opposition in Congress and in the country to jailing a former president.
Chairman Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., reminded Rockefeller when than he was governor of New York he had commited the prison sentence of L. Judson Morrison, a housemate, and brought to court the chairman whom Rockefeller had appointed to the State Thruway Commission.
Ford appoints Rumsfeld to top White House post
Runnasef's responsibilities will be to help manage the best use of the Press Room.
From the Associated Press
Asked whether other Nixon-appointed members of the White House staff would be leaving in the wake of Haig, who will become military commander of NATO, Neessen said. "They're each going to be bandled on an individual basis."
Nessen formally announced the resignation of Jerry W. Friedheim, as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.
succeed Gen. Alexander M. Hajg Jr, then
administrator Hajg's title as White House
 chief of staff.
govern during a prison revolt he would
been forced to be killed with weapons if
they were at all possible.
The revolt at the New York State prison at Attica in the fall of 1971 resulted in the death of 43 persons, mostly inmates. One person was killed by a fireball stabbed and 40 died of gunshot wounds.
Morthouse had been found guilty of battery in connection with a state liquor board wager.
Had the revolt succeeded and some prisoners been allowed to leave the country as they had demanded, there would have been an extra police very prison in the country, Rockefeller said.
Rockefeller said he had no choice but to order a police attack when negotiations broke down and prisoners were seen holding knives at the throats of hostages.
personality, I have a very strong feeling that if democracy is to survive, then it cannot be run by individual citizens—in this case by prisoners—holding hostages with a threat to kill those hostages," Rockefeller said.
Rockefeller said he acted because a team of doctors had decided that Norwich, who had both cancer of the colon and Parkinson's disease, couldn't survive if jailed.
Committee chairman Cannon also presented the former governor with a sheaf of memos detailing extensive lobbying by Rockefeller to convince the White House to allow the Grumman Aircraft Corp. to build the F-14 jet fighter for the Navy.
The F-14 is built by the Grumman corporation on Long Island. Rockefeller said the corporation's operations were a major factor in the area's economy.
A note in Rockefeller's handwriting on one memo said he would contact then-President Nixon about the situation. He said he had talked with Nixon on the telephone.
"Do you think action of this type by a governor is a proper use of political influence or is this an attempt to circumvent a regular contract procedure?" Cannon asks.
Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., generally regarded in the Senate as being a staunch conservative, led the questioning back to the Rockefeller family fortune. He said that wealthy men in politics appeared to adopt a liberal stance.
"I wonder if they feel it is necessary to "admit a liberal stance in order to compensate for their great wealth?" Allen asked.
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"I thought I was doing my duty for my constituent," Rockefeller replied.
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Rockefeller gave a long and rambling answer in which he said the government system would survive to the extent it served all the people. He said he always had to have a need for government to do for people those things they couldn't do for themselves.
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Rockefeller noted that while he was governor large amount of money were spent on his campaign.
During questioning about Atica, Rockefeller said that if he were again
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"Some would say that's liberal," he said.
"I say it's sound and in a sense conservative."
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