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Donald Rumsfeld’s New Jersey connection

June 30, 2021 6:04 pmJune 30, 2021 6:09 pm

Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense who died today at age 88, played a key role in torpedoing New Jersey Rep. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen’s bid for House Minority Whip in 1966. The same campaign put Gerald R. Ford...

Another Frelinghuysen story

August 27, 2019 4:29 pmJune 30, 2021 5:44 pm

A contested race for House Minority Leader placed Gerald Ford on a path that landed him in the White House, but largely forgotten in that story was that Ford’s running mate, Peter Frelinghuysen (R-Harding), lost his bid for Minority Whip....