# Nelson Rockefeller Four-term governor of New York (1959–1973) and 41st Vice President of the United States under [[Gerald Ford]]. Rockefeller personified the liberal-to-moderate wing of the [[Republican Party]] — fiscally pragmatic, internationalist, and supportive of civil rights and social spending — that dominated the party before the conservative movement's ascendance. His failed presidential bids (1960, 1964, 1968) and the 1964 convention clash with Barry Goldwater marked a turning point: the [[Republican Party]] began its long shift toward the right-wing populist base that eventually produced [[Ronald Reagan]] and, later, [[MAGA]]. The term "Rockefeller Republican" became shorthand for a now-extinct species in American politics — establishment moderates squeezed out by the [[Cold War]] right and the New Right coalition. *Stub — expand with: Attica prison uprising, Latin America policy, family philanthropy empire, relationship to neoconservative foreign policy.*