TDT: Nelson A. Rockefeller

 

Source:Britannica- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican, New York) I believe at one of his Congressional Vice Presidential hearings, in 1974. (But don't quote me on that)

"Nelson Rockefeller, in full Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, (born July 8, 1908, Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.—died January 26, 1979, New York City), 41st vice president of the United States (1974–77) in the Republican administration of Pres. Gerald Ford, four-term governor of New York (1959–73), and leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination of his party three times.

Rockefeller was the son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a businessman, and Abby Greene Aldrich. He was a grandson of one of America’s wealthiest people, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., founder of the Standard Oil Company. Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930 with a degree in economics, he spent the remainder of the decade working for a number of family enterprises, including Chase National (later Chase Manhattan) Bank, Rockefeller Center, and Creole Petroleum.

As director of Creole Petroleum—a Standard Oil affiliate with large holdings in Venezuela—from 1935 to 1940, Rockefeller acquired fluency in Spanish and a profound interest in Latin America. In 1940 he took his first post with the federal government as coordinator of inter-American affairs at the State Department. Although he was a Republican in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rockefeller rose to the position of assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs in 1944... 

From Britannica 

Other than a short period with Theodore Roosevelt 100 years ago, Americans Progressives have never really had a party of their own. Some my point to Henry Wallace's party in the 1940s, but they were a collection of Social Democrats and hard core Socialists, even Communists. 

The reason why progressives have never really had a party of their own is because their philosophy is so practical and mainstream. They believe progress and progress through government action, but their American Patriots who love America and what we're supposed to stand for and even love American freedom, but that freedom should for everyone, not just the wealthy and people born to wealth. 

Since progressivism is nonpartisan as a political philosophy (even though today most classical Progressives, at least are in the Democratic Party) you have Left-Progressives, people like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, but you Right-Progressives, people like Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, and even Richard Nixon. 

This page is about Nelson Rockefeller, because he was essentially the leader of the Right-Progressives in the Republican Party and represented the Republican Party (when they were the GOP) that was mostly made up of Conservative-Libertarians like Barry Goldwater and others and Right-Progressives like Nelson Rockefeller and others. 

Nelson Rockefeller