Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

By Government Printing Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000165638
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Author:	Government Printing Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Excerpt: The U.S. Senate commissioned a bust of Nelson Rockefeller Aldrich Rockefeller was the grandson of in 1983 as part of its ongoing Vice Presidential Bust John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the founder of Standard Oil, and of Nelson Aldrich, a Collection. Traditionally, the subject’s family is permitted U.S. senator from 1881 to 1911. Before to select the sculptor, and the Senate funds the work. For entering government service, Rockefeller this bust the Rockefeller family requested that artist Johnworked in his family’s oil, real estate, and banking businesses. During World War II, Calabro be given the commission, and the family donated funds beyond Franklin Roosevelt appointed him coordi-the amount earmarked by the Senate to defray the additional costs of nator of inter-American affairs for the executing the sculpture. Although Architect of the Capitol George WhiteState Department and then assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs. agreed to proceed with the recommendation, he was disappointed with Later, Rockefeller was undersecretary of the work as it progressed. Regarding the plaster model by Calabro, he health, education, and welfare during the noted: “Even though it was a reasonable likeness, there was in my judg-Eisenhower administration. In 1958 he won election as governor of New York, ment a definite lack of personality in the piece.”1 Before the sculptor a post he held for 14 years. could complete the work to his own or White’s satisfaction, however, Following several unsuccessful bids for his health failed. Vincent Palumbo, master stone carver for the Nationalthe Republican presidential nomination, Rockefeller was nominated in 1974 by Cathedral in Washington, D.C., was asked to finish the Rockefeller bust, President Gerald R. Ford to fill the vacancy which he carved in marble from Calabro’s plaster model. The piece was in the vice presidency that occurred when unveiled at the Capitol on June 1, 1987, with both Calabro and Palumbo Richard Nixon resigned the presidency and in attendance.

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