Nelson Rockefeller believed in fate ... In 1958, he decided to run for governor of New York State. His campaign revealed a confident and affable politician, at his best when pressing the flesh ...
Nelson, preparing a bid for the governorship of New York State, exercised his passion for modern art and architecture by taking over leadership of his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's project ...
In a quivering voice, a woman gave a 911 dispatcher the address of a townhouse on West 54th Street in Manhattan. “It’s death.
Megan Marshack, an aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former New York governor and vice president when he died under ...
Presiding were New York mayor Robert Wagner, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and transportation-and-parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump. Trump later told a ...
Inaugurating a 49th Governor last week ... But no sooner had Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller marched into the chamber to take his oath of office than New Yorkers —and the U.S.—discovered that ...
New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller spoke of a “Just Society.” California’s Ronald Reagan envisioned a “Creative Society.” Michigan’s George Romney urged a “Generation of ...
Nelson A. Rockefeller was a businessman ... Beginning in 1958, he won election to four consecutive terms as governor of New York State, where, as a progressive Republican, he vastly increased ...
In November 1961, 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller, the son of then-New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, went missing somewhere off the ...