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For those who do not know the History of the Federal Reserve, a group of Americans wanted a Central Bank, and one of them was John D. Rockefeller. Now to get this Legislation through Congress, they enlisted Woodrow Wilson, saying if he would sign this Bill, they would get him elected president. They did that by getting Teddy Rooservelt to split the Conservative vote by running against incumbent President Taft -- so it was a three way race. Now there was a problem with getting the legislation through the Senate. But Senator Nelson Aldrich, the maternal grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller,...

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Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller is in grave condition at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences following a second unsuccessful bone marrow transplant, according to the Web site of the weekly Arkansas Times. In a posting by Editor Max Brantley on the site's "Arkansas Blog" on Monday, the Times cited multiple sources for its report, and said pneumonia has complicated Rockefeller's condition. Rockefeller spokesman Steve Brawner, when told of the Times' report, said he wouldn't release specific information about Rockefeller's condition out of respect for his privacy and that of his family. UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Rockefeller's name...

Excerpt - Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller returned home to Arkansas on Saturday after a second bone marrow transplant for a life-threatening blood disorder failed to produce encouraging results, a spokesman said. Rockefeller, 57, returned to Little Rock from Washington state, where he had the two transplants for a condition that can lead to leukemia, his spokesman Steve Brawner said. "His attitude is still good and he is still looking for a way to beat this disease and return to his good life and noble work," Brawner said. Brawner would not elaborate on Rockefeller's current physical condition. ~ snip ~

SEATTLE — What looks like peach fuzz has replaced the brown and gray hair that once distinguished the crown of Win Rockefeller’s head. He’s had a bone marrow transplant, a procedure in which a patient’s marrow is replaced with healthy marrow for the purpose of thwarting what could otherwise be a fatal disease. Now he’s waiting to do it a second time. The first hasn’t worked. Arkansas’ lieutenant governor, a wealthy businessman who last year withdrew as a prospective candidate for governor of Arkansas, now is concentrating on staying alive. 1 In a 3 / 2 hour interview with the...

Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller withdrew from the race for Arkansas governor Tuesday, announcing he had been diagnosed with a blood disorder that is a precursor to leukemia. Rockefeller will stop all activity in his race for the 2006 Republican gubernatorial nomination to pursue a bone marrow transplant. Recovery time could be as long as a year, he said in a late afternoon news conference.

Lt. Governor Win Rockefeller has a blood disorder and is ending his race for governor. The 56-year-old Rockefeller says he was diagnosed in April and that the blood condition could develop into leukemia. Rockefeller has been campaigning and raising money in the hope of following in his father's footsteps as governor of Arkansas. But his illness will derail that plan.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Asa Hutchinson and his supporters took a campaign mailing by Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller as their cue to fire the first major salvos in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary campaign. A major Rockefeller campaign mailing repeatedly emphasized the billionaire lieutenant governor's anti-abortion bona fides, and Hutchinson, a former congressman and Homeland Security undersecretary, responded by saying Rockefeller was trying to shift away from his previous support for abortion rights

In a major campaign mailing, Republican gubernatorial candidate Win Rockefeller stresses repeatedly that he is anti-abortion, even citing actions by the Arkansas Senate, over which he presides but in which he has no vote except in the rare case of ties. "He is readjusting his position on the abortion question," Rockefeller’s gubernatorial foe in the 2006 Republican primary, Asa Hutchinson, said Thursday of the mailing. "That’s really the essence of the letter." The two-page letter from the lieutenant governor was sent to "tens of thousands" of Arkansans, said Rockefeller campaign spokesman Stacy DeJarnette. It urges recipients to become members of...

Arkansas Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, the billionaire great-grandson of the founder of Standard Oil Company, said on Thursday he will run next year for governor

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller has informed state Republican officials that he will definitely run for governor in 2006. Rockefeller stated his intentions in a letter dated Monday to members of the state Republican Party, state committee and executive committee. "I want you to be the first to know," Rockefeller said. "I look forward to working with you in the coming months to bring about a new era of excellence for Arkansas." He said he would formally announce his candidacy after the Legislature adjourns. He was not immediately available for comment Thursday. In his letter, Rockefeller...

Arkansas. Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, who may represent Republicans’ second-best chance of defeating Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln next year, still cannot make up his mind about whether to launch a Senate bid. Gov. Mike Huckabee, who had been touted by Republicans as their lead candidate to challenge Lincoln until he bowed out last month, recently threw his support behind Rockefeller. But Rockefeller has yet to say what his plans are. “The lieutenant governor is honored by the governor’s positive comments toward his candidacy,” Win’s chief of staff, Doyle Webb, said late last week. “His focus is certainly toward public service,...

Rockefeller Savors Chance For Last Laugh By Doug Thompson Arkansas News Bureau FAYETTEVILLE — Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller will draw a great deal of personal satisfaction if he and three other Republican candidates for state constitutional office are elected in November, because their election would restore a privilege taken away from his father in 1969, Rockefeller said Wednesday. The "majority party," as defined in state law, picks two out of every three county election commissioners. The current definition of "majority party" is the party that holds at least four of the seven statewide constitutional offices. "Through 1968, the party of...