Both Nelson Rockefeller and Lyndon Johnson were born 100 years ago this summer. Their legacies speak to us still. One was born in the family summer cottage in Bar Harbor, Maine. The other was born in ...

Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York and future vice president under Gerald Ford, ... President Lyndon Johnson is assigning 50 FBI agents to lawless Mississippi, ...

Addressing the New York state legislature, Nelson Rockefeller sounded every bit as frugal as Lyndon Johnson. Urging fiscal austerity, Rocky promised a balanced budget with “no increase in taxes ...

When Nelson Rockefeller divorced his first wife, the former Mary Todhunter Clark, in 1962, he dropped in the polls but, to the surprise of pundits, quickly regained his popularity.

Here lies Nelson Rockefeller: billionaire, ... The biggest personality in national politics between Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton, Rockefeller was as overwhelming and unexpected as a typhoon on ...

While much is being made about the new movie Selma’s depiction of the complicated relationship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson at the summit of the civil ...

Rockefeller, who had already missed out on getting his name on the ticket in 1960, needed President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat who encouraged him to run in 1968, to convince Happy that a third ...

(TIME, April 12, 1968) -- Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of a second term as President dumbfounded all but a score of relatives and top aides, who suspected that it might be coming. It was not ...