Example sentences for: rockefeller

How can you use “rockefeller” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For example, Ron Chernow's Titan , a biography of John D. Rockefeller Sr., held the ninth position on the New York Times nonfiction list the week of Aug. 17.

  • Rockefeller never won the presidency--despite all-out campaigns in 1964 and 1968--but he served as governor of New York for 12 years and then completed his public career as Gerald Ford's vice president.

  • Rockefeller's addiction to living in an expensive realm of his own, for creating his own entourage, ultimately accounted for Gerald Ford's decision to toss Rockefeller overboard and pick Bob Dole as his running mate in 1976 (something that will presumably be discussed in Reich's next book).

  • As undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Rockefeller helped pioneer the idea of national health insurance.

  • The daughter of Faith Whittlesley (Reagan chum and twice ambassador to Switzerland) is divorcing a Rockefeller relly named O'Neill.


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