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 Ruth Marshack, the journalist and press aide who was widely rumored to have had a romantic relationship with Nelson Rockefeller ... and former governor of New York — at the time of his ...

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 ...

Judson Morhouse, who was New York's GOP chairman when Nelson Rockefeller first ran for governor. Morehouse, who was later convicted of bribery in a liquor scandal, used the loan to buy stock in ...

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 ...

Through the Statehouse in Albany, through the lower levels of the elaborate Rockefeller political ... True, the ebullient, fast-moving Governor of New York had reserved the hopeful’s right ...