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Perhaps he was still dreaming of becoming president and wanted to show how tough he was to the tough, law-and-order camp of the American public, but much as he had always wanted to become the leader of the Free World, he had failed to win his party’s nomination after running for president in 1960, 1964, and 1968, losing out to Nixon, Goldwater, and again to Nixon, but when the disgraced Nixon resigned from office in 1974, his vice president, Gerald Ford, who himself had been appointed after the resignation of the disgraced Spiro Agnew, took over as the new president and appointed Nelson Rockefeller to become his vice president, making them the only two men in American history to hold their offices without being elected by the American people, and so it was, on December 19, 1974, after a 287-to-128 vote in the House of Representatives and a 90-to-7 vote in the Senate, that Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as the forty-first vice president of the United States.
Tal vez seguía soñando con ser presidente y quería demostrar firmeza ante el duro público norteamericano que militaba en el campo de la ley y el orden, pero por mucho que siempre hubiera querido convertirse en el líder del Mundo Libre, no había logrado la candidatura de su partido después de presentarse a la presidencia en 1960, 1964 y 1968, perdiendo ante Nixon, Goldwater y una vez más ante Nixon, pero cuando el desacreditado Nixon dimitió del cargo en 1974, su vicepresidente, Gerald Ford, designado a su vez tras la dimisión del depuesto Spiro Agnew, asumió el cargo de nuevo presidente y nombró vicepresidente a Nelson Rockefeller, convirtiéndose ambos en los dos únicos políticos en la historia de Estados Unidos que ocuparon cargos sin ser elegidos por el pueblo norteamericano, y así fue como, el 19 de diciembre de 1974, después de una votación de 287 contra 128 en la Cámara de Representantes y otra de 90 contra 7 en el Senado, Nelson Rockefeller juró el cargo de cuadragésimo primer vicepresidente de Estados Unidos.
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