It was the noses. A New York thing. You wouldn't understand.
Posted on 05/20/2015 8:20:19 AM PDT by Borges
Happy Rockefeller, the socialite whose 1963 marriage to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, soon after both had been divorced, raised a political storm in a more genteel time and may have cost him the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, died on Tuesday at her home in Tarrytown, N.Y. She was 88.
The family said in a statement that she died after a brief illness.
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Why was it scandalous? Because of divorce?...........
There always has to be one: I thought for sure she had died years ago.
Because she was a home wrecker and he...well...much worse than that. Certainly helped doomed his presidential ambitions that year and propelled Barry to the nomination.
And nowadays we debate over ‘Gay Marriage’................
Oh, dear, scandal!
Now, of course, governors take homosexual partners and everyone smiles.
And they’re talking about group marriages now.
Soon, sheep and donkeys.
He died cheating on her with his 25 year old aide.
He came and went at the same time.
People think I’m lying when I said Ronald Reagan had to get past the issue of being divorced when he ran for president. It was once a scarlet letter. “Good” people stayed married to one partner their entire lives.
“Mad Men” looked at divorce rates in the 1950s and 60s in a DVD documentary sidebar and I found it interesting that instead of lauding the low divorce rates of the 1950s and asking how we, as a society, could return to that, their experts dismissed it as a statistical oddity that was not sustainable.
Sort of like if you studied murder rates and one decade was particularly low, instead of asking “how can we return to that?”, it would be dismissed as “that was just a historical freak”.
And then Happy Rockefeller had her own home wrecked by another homewrecker named Megan Marshack who waited an hour to call for help after Nelson,`the man on top’, suffered a heart attack.
Old joke was that Nelson Rockefeller died of low blood pressure, 70 over 25.
“Sic transit gloria mundi”
Ironically, Rockefeller died of a heart attack in 1979 in "intimate circumstances" in the company of a young woman who worked for him.
Yes, believe it or not most Americans felt marriage vows were to be taken seriously in 1963.
It was the noses. A New York thing. You wouldn't understand.
GOP primary voters have a long history of being very socially conservative and this applies especially to presidential candidates. When it was learned that Rocky was divorcing his wife for a much younger trophy this did not play well with most GOP primary voters. RR too was divorced and remarried. However, it was his first wife, Jane Wyman, who left him. And when RR remarried it was to someone who was at least much closer to his own age, not a trophy wife.
The world would be a better place without Rockefellers.
David turns 100 in a few weeks.
Megan Marshack.....ol Nelson Rockefeller died in the saddle
Old Nels took good care of Megan, left her the townhouse love nest just around the corner from MOMA.
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