VICE PRESIDENT NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/12/1958 - HFSID 45815
Sale Price $175.00
Reg. $220.00
NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER
Nelson A. Rockefeller sends an autographed picture to a
collector.
Typed Letter Signed: "Nelson A. Rockefeller", as Republican
candidate for Governor of New York, 1p, 5¾x7¾. New York, New York, 1958
August 12. To Mr. Arnold Brein Brooklyn, New York. In full: "Thank
you very much for your letter of July eighteenth. I appreciate your thought in
writing and am glad to enclose an autographed picture of myself [not
present]. Sincerely," Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979), the grandson of
John D. Rockefeller Sr., was Governor of New York from 1959-1973 and
sought the Republican Presidential nomination in 1964 and 1968. (He had secured
Platform assurances from Vice President Nixon in exchange for not contesting the
nomination that year.) When President Nixon resigned and Vice President Ford
succeeded to the presidency in 1974, Rockefeller was chosen by President Ford
to be Vice President of the U.S. under the provisions of the 25th Amendment.
Rockefeller, who did not seek the nomination in 1976, served as VP from
1974-1977. ½-inch square stain at blank margin
below text, pencil erasures at upper left margin, else fine
condition.
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