Nelson Rockefeller Hubert Humphrey. Despite Rockefeller's efforts, Nixon won the nomination on the first ballot. After Gerald Ford's elevation to the Presidency, Rockefeller was named Vice President. He played a ceremonial role with no scope for his energies. Rockefeller was not a candidate for a full term in 1976, and Ford selected Bob Dole as his running mate. Because the perception was that the Alliance for Progress was a failure, shortly after taking office, on February 17, 1969, President Richard Nixon commissioned a study to assess the state of Latin America. Nixon appointed his most powerful political rival, New York Governor Nelson
Michael Rockefeller Rockefeller" which appeared on their 1986 album "Jamboree". In the travel adventure book "Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey" the Blair brothers claim to have discussed Rockefeller's death with a tribesman who killed him. Christopher Stokes's short story "The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller", published in the 23rd issue of "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" (Spring 2007), presents a fictional account of young Michael's demise. The 2004 novel "King of America" by Samantha Gillison is loosely based on the life of Michael Rockefeller. The 2007 film "Welcome to the Jungle" deals with two young couples who venture after Michael Rockefeller (thinking they