Politically, all that is very true about Nelson Rockefeller, he was the RINO capo di tutti capi. But as far as the endowments, charities, museums, & all the other artsy-f@rsty stuff, Rocky was not one of the idle rich living off inherited wealth. He was a human dynamo & I recall that wide-gauge 1,000 watt grin appearing everywhere in the news.
But do the math; by the time of his death in early 1979 Rockefeller’s hopes for the GOP nomination in 1980 were forlorn. The Reaganites were insurgent & had already come within a whisker of snatching it away from Gerald Ford in 1976.
Anyway, I wonder if the New Guinea cannibals who had Michael Rockefeller for dinner were ever aware of his aristocratic pedigree. Unlike the `long pig’ they were accustomed to, his fair flesh must have been the Wagyu Kobe beef of human comestibles.
;^)
You’re right that he wasn’t stingy. A dedicated hater of conservatives, but generous with his wealth.
I say let’s send Rove, Romney and Jeb Bush to that island and see if the locals are ready for seconds.