Word: nelson
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Personally, Nelson owns one of the most valuable private art collections in the world, consisting of some 1,500 pieces. The Rockefeller clan's 3,000-acre estate in Pocantico Hills, north of New York City, houses much of the collection-and includes as well several swimming pools, a huge "playhouse," tennis courts, a golf course and lovely reaches of woodland. During the summer, Nelson and his wife spend time at their home hi Seal Harbor on the coast of Maine. They own a 25-room Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City, an estate on Foxhall Road...
...wide variety of public causes. "The word is stewardship" says John D. III. "What we inherited was ours on a service basis." The 56th floor is divided into four suites, one for each of the four surviving sons of John D. Jr. They are John D. Ill, 68, Nelson, 66, Laurance, 64, and David...
...given time as well as money to philanthropy. In 1939 he was appointed to his first public post, as a member of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, which operates a string of parks on the west side of the Hudson River. In 1963 he went to work for Brother Nelson, succeeding Robert Moses as chairman of the New York State Council of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, a post he has since resigned. He has pushed for bond issues that have helped the state acquire hundreds of thousands of acres of land for parks and recreation. In medical research, Laurance...
Only rarely since the days of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson has a man with the stature of Nelson Rockefeller risen to the U.S. vice presidency. Indeed, Rockefeller brings to his new job an unprecedented portfolio of assets: more than a third of a century's experience in state and Federal Government; countless personal contacts among politicians, academicians and businessmen in the U.S. and abroad; legendary wealth; a lustrous name; an extroverted personality. How can President Ford make the best use of the enormously capable, ambitious, idealistic-and also arrogant-man whom he has nominated...
Jerry Ford, the Omaha adoptee turned President, looked across his desk last week at Nelson Rockefeller, the dynastic heir to countless millions, and nominated him to be his Vice President, then ribbed him. "You know you are going to have to live in the old Admiral's House," he said. "You can visit your lovely home on Foxhall Road on the weekends." Admiral's House is the drafty 81-year-old home recently consigned to Vice Presidents. Rockefeller has long had his own Washington estate on Foxhall Road...