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I'm not sure about this rhetorical question, but your keywords give the answer away. There was a story/canard going around at the time of Clinton's election that he was really the illegitimate son of Nelson Rockerfeller. What that has to do with his becoming secretary general of the UN is somewhat questionable. When I first encountered this claim/canard, the evidence was (1) rumor (2) a certain striking physical resemblance to N. Rockerfeller. Now the hypothesis is not as outrageous as it may seem because it is well-known that up until the 1960s at least it was common for the sons of the very rich and well-to-do (Rockerfellers, Kennedys, etc.) on the East Coast to have "vacation weekends" in college and resort towns, such as Hot Springs Arkansas. The Rockerfellers, as well as Al Capone, spent a lot of time in Hot Springs. This weekends usually involved pre-arranging dates wih "respectable women", who were expected to sleep with "one of the boys" and of course be paid well to keep quiet. I did hear this through the grapevine but from my very own my own mother who was approached by a Rockerfeller front man when she was a senior in college in the Northeast. She was put off by the proposition and said no, but apparently one of her girl friends accepted the offer and confided what had happened. It is possible, although there is no evidence, that the same thing happened with Clinton's mother. Apparently they didn't discriminate between married and unmarried women, and the money was very good by the standards of those days.

Now here is an interesting discrepency. When Clinton was elected I read the official biography put out by his press people about his life, including the death of his father by "traffic accident". It said his father died on a slippery highway coming home in Northern Arkansas. Several weeks later I happened to be driving home from Memphis to my home in the Fort Worth area and I stopped in Hope, Arkansas at the fledgling Clinton museum and souveneer stand put together apparently by some of his relatives. I picked up a booklet on his life put out by the museum. It said his father died by "falling under a train" in Sherman, Texas (which is quite a ways from Northern Arkansas, but where his father's family, the Jefferson, came from). Supposedly the train accident happened a month before the official version. I would imagine by now the two versions have been reconciled. But, fascinated by the discrepency, I took the booklet to a local historian and author who was already researching Clinton family history and knew a lot about the family (He himself was from Southeastern Oklahoma). He kind of rolled his eyes and said "the booklet version is the correct one." So Mom gets pregnant and dad "falls" under a train? The other piece of information I learned is that Clinton's mother and father at the time (spring 1946) were supposedly separated (because of Dad's alleged dalliance with so many women), so Clinton's father couldn't really have been coming home to Mom as the official version speaks. Doesn't "prove" anything, and only suggests that there is more to Clinton's birth than meets the idea.

There was a story/canard going around at the time of Clinton's election that he was really the illegitimate son of Nelson Rockerfeller.... the evidence was (1) rumor (2) a certain striking physical resemblance to N. Rockerfeller.

I got linked to this thread today in 2015 from another thread. So just let me state unequivocably that Bill Clinton doesn't look a damn thing like Nelson Rockefeller (correct spelling). Rockefeller is of Dutch and German origin, and like most people in his family, there is straight hair, lidded hazel eyes, flat cheeks, an aquiline nose, a strong square jaw, a high square forehead with receding temples, orange complexion and a wide straight lower lip that is most distinctive to the Rockefellers and curves upward in the middle, with a wide frenulum on the upper lip. The Rockefellers migrated from Germany or Holland to New Jersey in the 1700s.

Clinton has a narrower jaw and forehead, high plump cheeks, and many of the typical features associated with the Ulster Scots-Irish who migrated to the American South in the 1840s: blue eyes, a thick curly head of hair with no temple recession, a pink complexion and a bulbous nose. His mouth is narrower and his lower lip pouches downward in the middle, exactly opposite to the distinctive Rockefeller lip line.