In general he did. Nixon and Agnew in 1973, Ford as VP in 1973, Ford as President in 1974, Rockefeller as VP in 1974, Carter in 1977, Reagan in 1981 and 1985
He was Governor of NY, & briefly served as VP under Ford, but was replaced by Sen. Robert Dole to be a running mate on the 1976 GOP ticket. He spoke with a bit of a Boston accent.
The presiding officer of the Senate that day (Rockefeller shakes his hand on the rostrum shortly after swearing in) was President pro tempore of the Senate, Sen. James O. Eastland (D-MS), who was one of the staunch anti-integration Southern Democrats who helped maintain the post-New Deal Democratic coalition for so long. Eastland was, at the time, was the most senior member of the majority party who is then President pro tempore or president of the Senate in the absence of a Vice President.
Humphrey would be mine. And not because I was born and raised here in MN either :) Mainly because he was ahead of his time when it came to Civil Rights in 1948
Protesters flipped Rockefeller off, so he gave the same gesture in return at SUNY Binghamton. They deserved it. He never gave reporters the middle finger. Get your facts straight: rarehistoricalphotos.com/rockefeller-middle-finger-1976/
What a lovely supportive wife! Happy Rockefeller looks beautiful poised and exceptionally distinguished on such a momentous occasion for Nelson, her and the family! 😇🤗💓
daveyork0, This took place in the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House must give permission before anyone addresses those in that chamber.
@@johnfarr2738 Actually, Rockefeller resigned as Governor in December 1973. He was succeeded by Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson in the hope it would help Wilson in the 1974 Gubernatorial election. Unfortunately for Wilson, he lost the general election to Hugh Carey.
Where was Mike Mansfield(majority leader at the time) I ask because Robert Byrd as acting majority leader requested unanimous consent to let Rockefeller speak.
Back when the Republican party was still sane and was the progressive party! Gerry Ford and Nelson Rockefeller would be rolling over in their graves if they could their party today!
***** Goldwater softened up his views as he grew older. I remember Goldwater's disdain for the Religious Right (I call them the Religious Wrong). Goldwater was also pro-choice. As a Libertarian he didn't think it was the governments business. The modern Libertarians are anti-choice, so the modern Libertarians aren't even true Libertarians anymore. Goldwater was also for gays serving in the military. I remember him saying gays have served in the military since the times of Julius Caesar. I also remember Goldwater saying "you don't have to be straight to serve, you just have to shoot straight".
Against all enemies foreign and domestic ? Basically he's swearing to defend America against his own family who are domestic. Well he didn't keep that oath .
This was the second time a vp was chosen (the other time was with LBJ) and the first time someone other than the president addressed the senate I think
Ford wanted to keep Rockefeller but after a tight contest with Reagan in the 1976 Primaries, Ford's advisors urged him to pick a more Conservatives VP to make sure the Reaganites showed up to vote. Rockefeller meanwhile understood the situation and basically told Ford he would stay on, only if Ford urged him to stay, but otherwise Rockefeller would refuse the nomination (and to be fair to Ford most Republicans wanted Rockefeller out, especially Reaganites). Ford skeptically agreed and later Bob Dole became the VP candidate. Ford later said that he wished he had urged Rockefeller to stay. Ford and Rockefeller disagreed on policy as Ford was more to the center of the Republican Party (to the left of Reagan but to the right of Rockefeller) and Rockefeller was a liberal Republican. However despite their disagreements Rockefeller was loyal to Ford and helped get compromises passed between the Republican President and Democratic Senate. Ford was very appreciative of Rockefeller and I'm sure Ford would've kept Rockefeller if he had to have done it over again.
Former Vice President Rockefeller died in 1979. If Ford and Rockefeller had been the candidates and had won they would have been elected to the 1977 - 1981 term. Would he have lived?
@MADVOCATE 000 Potentially, but if Ford had picked Rockefeller, the Reaganites would've hated it, and there's a chance some of those folks would've simply stayed home instead of picking between Ford/Rockefeller and Carter/Mondale. Ford was in a tight position no matter what he did. Any decision made ran the risk of making some group of voters mad. Picking Dole made the moderate wing skeptical, and Dole said some outlandish comments during the 1976 campaign. If Ford had picked someone else, it would've ran another risk we haven't discussed. Ford was in tough position and no matter what he did, someone was going to get mad.
This was back when there were two wings of the Republican Party. Rockefeller represented the liberal wing, also known as the Rockefeller wing. They were the wing that never won anything.
Nelson had served as the liberal Republican governor of New York State-from 1959 to 1973, In addition-Nelson ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960/1964/1968-he lost all three times. Also-via pressure from conservative Republicans-Ford dropped Rockefeller from the 1976 Republican presidential/vice presidential ticket in late 1975. After narrowly defeating Ronald Reagan for the nomination in August, 1976-Ford chose longtime Kansas senator Bob Dole to be his vice presidential running mate; sadly enough-Ford and Dole were narrowly defeated by the liberal Democrat ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and longtime Minnesota senator Walter Mondale.
Mark Pippin I wouldn’t be happy either with all the crap he had to deal with. Imagine being just a Representative and then BOOM you’re President and you need to hold the nation together because your predecessor screwed up.
+CrooningForLeftovers They actually lived in the same Manhattan apartment building for a number of years in the mid-1960s, though they used different entrances to avoid running into each other all the time. An old NY doorman told me that.
absolutely not. george w. bush would have been about 29 at that time, and had no role or experience in government. nobody would have been ok with seating that known cocaine-head next to the sitting president of the united states.
What's up with those clods, requiring him to ask permission? Upon being sworn in as Vice President, he became the President of the Senate. Why does the presiding office of the Senate need permission to speak to the Senate?
@@kendalltube9633 what are you talking about? Biden was in college at U Delaware when JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Malcolm X was killed in NYC while Biden was in Delaware. Biden was in law school at Syracuse when MLK and RFK died. Memphis and Los Angeles are both quite far from Syracuse. Brush up on your geography.
When Rockefeller died, his house at 9-17 West 54th was sold, sending Rhodes Prep to 83rd and Amsterdam, where I was robbed by a student from the 600 school, Sammy Gravano's alma mater!
he didn't die "mysteriously". stop spreading false statements. he was a 71-year-old man in the middle of humping his (half his age) secretary, when he suffered a massive heart attack. all of this is well-documented and undisputed. you may have read reprinted accounts shortly after his demise, when the facts had not been publically stated yet, in deference to Rockefeller's wife and family - all of which did lend an air mystery, as the initial claims about what happened were patently evasive and had no ring of truth.
He died at the Rockefeller Town House on West 54th St. in Manhattan. The suppressed story he had a heart attack while having sex with his Assistant Press Secretary Megan (sorry I’ve forgotten her last name!) Mr. Rockefeller was 70 years old at the time of his death. May he Rest In Peace and Eternal Light shine upon his Soul.
@@stickitinyourear2011 So, the senate is legislative branch and the VP is executive branch. They need to be totally separate. I don't mind the VP having more power in the executive branch but he shouldn't part of the actual passing of legislation and confirming supreme court justices. He shouldn't be creating a majority where no majority exists.
@@J.B24 I think its good to remind the legislative branch that the executive branch still has power. Especially in the senate, which used to be filled with politicians chosen by their state's governors. I think its good to have visual reminder that the executive branch is important, plus its not good for laws the tie to be thrown out, it makes it look like the country is divided. With the VP, it can get passed or rejected based on how the people (the ticket the people elected) feel. And it can always get changed later by a different ticket, elected by the people.
@@mcapple7651 Not sure what you're talking about here but separation of powers means just that: SEPARATION. Plus, all you have to do is look at the last 4 years and see just exactly why this should be. The independent body should be the one who confirms judges, not vice presidents breaking the tie. I like the way they do it in great britain. They're speaker does not make a majority where a majority doesn't already exist, therefore they don't vote in the affirmative for tie breaking votes.
Best political biography in last 50 years...On His Own Terms by Richard Norton Smith
Chief Justice Burger had to swear in a lot of people in 1974.
Of having no words to ask for makeup.
In general he did. Nixon and Agnew in 1973, Ford as VP in 1973, Ford as President in 1974, Rockefeller as VP in 1974, Carter in 1977, Reagan in 1981 and 1985
when was this?
@@AutisticDJTelevisionMedia December 19, 1974
@@ilmsff7 Thanks
He was Governor of NY, & briefly served as VP under Ford, but was replaced by Sen. Robert Dole to be a running mate on the 1976 GOP ticket. He spoke with a bit of a Boston accent.
@sboudreaux27 *15. He served until December of '73. Malcolm Wilson finished off the last year of the term, 1974.
Actually, it's a highbrow New York accent. But certain words may sound a bit New England. It's all New York.
He wasn't replaced he chose to retire.
And unfortunately we've recently lost another vice president, Walter Mondale
The presiding officer of the Senate that day (Rockefeller shakes his hand on the rostrum shortly after swearing in) was President pro tempore of the Senate, Sen. James O. Eastland (D-MS), who was one of the staunch anti-integration Southern Democrats who helped maintain the post-New Deal Democratic coalition for so long. Eastland was, at the time, was the most senior member of the majority party who is then President pro tempore or president of the Senate in the absence of a Vice President.
I think this was the first time TV cameras were allowed in the Senate.
Ford's swearing in ceremony as VP was also filmed in the Senate. That was 1973
@@guillemedina7908 is it here anywhere?
@@guillemedina7908 No, that was in the House. czcams.com/video/14SDqpN82cw/video.htmlsi=smItRJSCr8oQ6Idf
Imagine if he was nominated and became president in '68, instead of Nixon
Lmao Rockefeller king of usa
Thankfully that didn’t happen
No
I am starting to think the 1970s would have been better. President Rockerfeller would have Better managed Washington DC.
@@douglaz74 He almost became president in 1975 when someone tried to shoot Ford. Fortunately someone was nearby and moved their gun hand away
Nelson Rockefeller = legend
I can't believe he would just swear in his face like that!
One of my favorite Vice Presidents.
Humphrey would be mine. And not because I was born and raised here in MN either :)
Mainly because he was ahead of his time when it came to Civil Rights in 1948
Rockefeller had a temper that sometimes flared up. I remember he gave the middle finger to a reporter.
I hate the press...Good for Rocky!!!
Protesters flipped Rockefeller off, so he gave the same gesture in return at SUNY Binghamton. They deserved it. He never gave reporters the middle finger. Get your facts straight: rarehistoricalphotos.com/rockefeller-middle-finger-1976/
@@thewatchdog9541 Thats right. Hippies from the Vietnam era.
What a lovely supportive wife! Happy Rockefeller looks beautiful poised and exceptionally distinguished on such a momentous occasion for Nelson, her and the family! 😇🤗💓
She was handsome...
Broke his family. Soon the son Nelson Michael Rockefeller died in New Guinea.
Among the longest serving Republican Governor of the State Of New York from January 1, 1959 to December 18, 1973
I believe this was the first time tv cameras were allowed in the Senate chamber, possibly the last time until Cspan 2 started.
Robert Byrd's longevity,,, just wow!
Good ol’ fashioned southern boy. A klansman too!
@@frankgarrett242 not just a Klansman, but the Grand Wizard.
WTF the VP PRESIDES over the Senate. Why would he require permission to speak on the Senate floor?
daveyork0, This took place in the House of Representatives.
The Speaker of the House must give permission before anyone addresses those in that chamber.
@@germojulia That is definitely not the House chamber
Senate rules.
Because he wasn’t a member of the Senate, he was Governor of NY.
@@johnfarr2738 Actually, Rockefeller resigned as Governor in December 1973. He was succeeded by Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson in the hope it would help Wilson in the 1974 Gubernatorial election. Unfortunately for Wilson, he lost the general election to Hugh Carey.
Was this recorded in 1975?
Thanks
Great man and great American...
Even Nelson is laughing like hell from your statement.
@@jerryboucher5622 he’s dead?
@@gymratstrength Yes
@@cristinazamfirkalogirou1383 by the time Ford died Rockefeller had been gone for about 27 years
@@gymratstrength Rockefeller died in 1979 and Ford died probably in 2006
when was this aired?
December 1974
Where was Mike Mansfield(majority leader at the time) I ask because Robert Byrd as acting majority leader requested unanimous consent to let Rockefeller speak.
BOTH PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT ARE NOT ELECTED...🤔🤔🤔
Hi. Senator Mansfield was in China at that time.(source: ABC News coverage of this event)
Please correct the spelling of Rockefeller's name.
Great speech.
Back when the Republican party was still sane and was the progressive party! Gerry Ford and Nelson Rockefeller would be rolling over in their graves if they could their party today!
***** Goldwater softened up his views as he grew older. I remember Goldwater's disdain for the Religious Right (I call them the Religious Wrong). Goldwater was also pro-choice. As a Libertarian he didn't think it was the governments business. The modern Libertarians are anti-choice, so the modern Libertarians aren't even true Libertarians anymore. Goldwater was also for gays serving in the military. I remember him saying gays have served in the military since the times of Julius Caesar. I also remember Goldwater saying "you don't have to be straight to serve, you just have to shoot straight".
+trucking604 I am reading your comment and remembering when the DEMOCRATS were pro-choice when it came to gun ownership. Those days are gone as well
+sandythebear very good point
trucking604 Just shoot straight.... So true.
yea, the democratic party isn't doing so well either
Yes, IF their is a VP at the time who dies along with the president. But at the time their was no VP.
Against all enemies foreign and domestic ? Basically he's swearing to defend America against his own family who are domestic.
Well he didn't keep that oath .
@John Doe the Rockefellers funded the Soviets .
Look it up
My thoughts exactly... devious family...
This was the second time a vp was chosen (the other time was with LBJ) and the first time someone other than the president addressed the senate I think
No LBJ did not chose a VP he did not get a replacement till Humphrey was elected with him in 1964!
he should have been president
Do you get paid well to sound this stupid.
JERRY BOUCHER clearly you do.
That is the dumbest comment I have seen posted anywhere on CZcams
Oh agree
my youth FATHER
What are you and Who am
when did this aire?
"I never wanted to be vice president of anything."
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Wow. Some seriously clueless people on this thread.
Who knows all the crime his family has been responsible for? We will never know.
@@andrewthetextbook489 Met with Dulles in Oct 63...
Historic
He was dumped from the ticket in 1976, not sure why. Ford later said he regretted doing that, it was a cowardly thing to do.
I could be wrong, but I could have sworn I read that Rockefeller didn't want to be on the ticket.
Ford wanted to keep Rockefeller but after a tight contest with Reagan in the 1976 Primaries, Ford's advisors urged him to pick a more Conservatives VP to make sure the Reaganites showed up to vote. Rockefeller meanwhile understood the situation and basically told Ford he would stay on, only if Ford urged him to stay, but otherwise Rockefeller would refuse the nomination (and to be fair to Ford most Republicans wanted Rockefeller out, especially Reaganites). Ford skeptically agreed and later Bob Dole became the VP candidate. Ford later said that he wished he had urged Rockefeller to stay. Ford and Rockefeller disagreed on policy as Ford was more to the center of the Republican Party (to the left of Reagan but to the right of Rockefeller) and Rockefeller was a liberal Republican. However despite their disagreements Rockefeller was loyal to Ford and helped get compromises passed between the Republican President and Democratic Senate. Ford was very appreciative of Rockefeller and I'm sure Ford would've kept Rockefeller if he had to have done it over again.
Former Vice President Rockefeller died in 1979. If Ford and Rockefeller had been the candidates and had won they would have been elected to the 1977 - 1981 term. Would he have lived?
@MADVOCATE 000 Potentially, but if Ford had picked Rockefeller, the Reaganites would've hated it, and there's a chance some of those folks would've simply stayed home instead of picking between Ford/Rockefeller and Carter/Mondale. Ford was in a tight position no matter what he did. Any decision made ran the risk of making some group of voters mad. Picking Dole made the moderate wing skeptical, and Dole said some outlandish comments during the 1976 campaign. If Ford had picked someone else, it would've ran another risk we haven't discussed. Ford was in tough position and no matter what he did, someone was going to get mad.
This was back when there were two wings of the Republican Party. Rockefeller represented the liberal wing, also known as the Rockefeller wing. They were the wing that never won anything.
Conolius piong &Sister Judit telah malukan saya dan telah mendera saya...
Nelson had served as the liberal Republican governor of New York State-from 1959 to 1973, In addition-Nelson ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960/1964/1968-he lost all three times. Also-via pressure from conservative Republicans-Ford dropped Rockefeller from the 1976 Republican presidential/vice presidential ticket in late 1975. After narrowly defeating Ronald Reagan for the nomination in August, 1976-Ford chose longtime Kansas senator Bob Dole to be his vice presidential running mate; sadly enough-Ford and Dole were narrowly defeated by the liberal Democrat ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and longtime Minnesota senator Walter Mondale.
Ford doesn't look happy at all.
Mark Pippin I wouldn’t be happy either with all the crap he had to deal with. Imagine being just a Representative and then BOOM you’re President and you need to hold the nation together because your predecessor screwed up.
100 ! 💯 ♥️
"Nelson Rockefeller was curt golp"
#freeherberthoover
Ford doesn't look too happy at 3:44.
@sboudreaux27 President Ford always said afterwards that was one his greatest mistakes.
@sboudreaux27 He did not dumped him. Rockefeller wanted to retire
@@cristinazamfirkalogirou1383 HE DIED 3 YEARS LATER IN 1979.
@@shahrulamar5358 I know
Rocky certainly enjoyed seeing Nixon go. Tricky Dick hated him !!
+CrooningForLeftovers They actually lived in the same Manhattan apartment building for a number of years in the mid-1960s, though they used different entrances to avoid running into each other all the time. An old NY doorman told me that.
Is that george bush sitting next to ford? Holy shit
absolutely not. george w. bush would have been about 29 at that time, and had no role or experience in government. nobody would have been ok with seating that known cocaine-head next to the sitting president of the united states.
Oh my landlord.
What's up with those clods, requiring him to ask permission? Upon being sworn in as Vice President, he became the President of the Senate. Why does the presiding office of the Senate need permission to speak to the Senate?
He presides over votes and can break ties but has no right to address the senate without permission
Nelson Rockefeller almost looks like an older Ted Cruz.
We have gone from a nation envisioned, established and guided by enlighten Oligarchs to a post 9/11 America guided by a Stupefied Plutocracy.
The right last name get you a lot in the United States.
Fun fact, Biden was there.
😂😂
Biden was there when RFK and MLK and Malcom X and JFK were all assassinated. He is everywhere where Evil resides.
@@kendalltube9633 no he wasn’t Biden was elected to the senate in 1973
@@edwardpacheco1436 Correction. Biden was elected in 1972, but was sworn in as a US senator in 1973.
@@kendalltube9633 what are you talking about? Biden was in college at U Delaware when JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Malcolm X was killed in NYC while Biden was in Delaware. Biden was in law school at Syracuse when MLK and RFK died. Memphis and Los Angeles are both quite far from Syracuse. Brush up on your geography.
Gerald Rudolf Ford jr is da man
This reminds me of the scene in There Will Be Blood when Daniel gets baptized.
Somewhere in that chamber… Joe Biden is there clapping
Discharge
*Rockefeller* 😒
Byrd? No wonder Glenn was asked ...
Did Byrd know? ...my guess no.
I think he should be a president imagine
When Rockefeller died, his house at 9-17 West 54th was sold, sending Rhodes Prep to 83rd and Amsterdam, where I was robbed by a student from the 600 school, Sammy Gravano's alma mater!
Rockefeller died mysteriously in 1979. 😟😟😟
he didn't die "mysteriously". stop spreading false statements. he was a 71-year-old man in the middle of humping his (half his age) secretary, when he suffered a massive heart attack. all of this is well-documented and undisputed. you may have read reprinted accounts shortly after his demise, when the facts had not been publically stated yet, in deference to Rockefeller's wife and family - all of which did lend an air mystery, as the initial claims about what happened were patently evasive and had no ring of truth.
Was not with Happy when it happened!
@@luisvaldes1568 No. With much younger lady. 🙂🙂
He died at the Rockefeller Town House on West 54th St. in Manhattan. The suppressed story he had a heart attack while having sex with his Assistant Press Secretary Megan (sorry I’ve forgotten her last name!) Mr. Rockefeller was 70 years old at the time of his death. May he Rest In Peace and Eternal Light shine upon his Soul.
@@charmainejames9539 His brother David, a World War 2 veteran, live much longer. He died in 2017, age 101.
Tldr Rockefeller did Happy.
Why did Rockefeller's wife not hold the bible? Betty Ford held the bible when Gerald was sworn in as Vice President the previous year.
The President Who Never Was
Kissinger rat
Love to know how much he paid Ford for this job.
Nixon recommended Ford pick Rockefeller.
@@thewatchdog9541 lol
A truly Orwellian speech...
Yep.
Biden was there
VPs should not be President of the Senate. We need to change that law.
Why? What is the problem with it? The Vp should have more power in the administration then they do that is what should change.
@@stickitinyourear2011 So, the senate is legislative branch and the VP is executive branch. They need to be totally separate. I don't mind the VP having more power in the executive branch but he shouldn't part of the actual passing of legislation and confirming supreme court justices. He shouldn't be creating a majority where no majority exists.
@@J.B24 I think its good to remind the legislative branch that the executive branch still has power. Especially in the senate, which used to be filled with politicians chosen by their state's governors. I think its good to have visual reminder that the executive branch is important, plus its not good for laws the tie to be thrown out, it makes it look like the country is divided. With the VP, it can get passed or rejected based on how the people (the ticket the people elected) feel. And it can always get changed later by a different ticket, elected by the people.
@@mcapple7651 Not sure what you're talking about here but separation of powers means just that: SEPARATION. Plus, all you have to do is look at the last 4 years and see just exactly why this should be. The independent body should be the one who confirms judges, not vice presidents breaking the tie. I like the way they do it in great britain. They're speaker does not make a majority where a majority doesn't already exist, therefore they don't vote in the affirmative for tie breaking votes.
@@stickitinyourear2011 ONE OF THE MAIN JOB OF VP WAS ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF FOREIGN LEADERS. 😃😃😃