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 rockefeller died happy




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From: eliz@eskimo.com (Elizabeth Garner)
Subject: Rockefeller died Happy (was: tooth stronger than friction)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 19:28:50 GMT

In article <3ipueb$fc2@panix.com>, Lee Rudolph <lrudolph@panix.com> wrote:

> T. Nelson Rockefeller died of cardiac arrest while porking the help.
>
>It seems that this well-documented True Event does fit under the rubric
>of Urban Legend after all. Quoth Legman (12.I):

[buncha stuff 'bout Presidents (USA) Harding and Roosevelt, and (French) Faure]

Just because the three above-mentioned gentlemen were subjected, post-mortem, to rumors that they may have died in the loving arms of someone other than their loving spouse, how does this indicate that TNR did not indeed die in the loving arms of someone other than Happy?

Fact: he did die in the townhouse of a sweet young thing, formerly on his staff (if you see a pun there, so be it), to whom he had lent the money to buy the townhouse, and his will forgave her the mortgage--around $80,000, as i remember, which would probably be 3-4 times that much in today's dollars. Fact: reports at the time said his body had been moved, post mortem, from wherever he had expired to where he was found, sedately dressed, in the living room. Fact: reports also said he hadn't died immediately, and if she had promptly called 911, he might well have been saved.

I think this one should remain in the T column.

Elizabeth "I don't think the townhouse was called The Monkey Business, though if Nelson's widow had married that other philanderer, Gary Hart, she would now be -- opps, nevermind, that spills over to the unlamented unfortunate-names thread" Garner


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