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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American businessman, philanthropist, public servant, and politician. He served as the 41st Vice President of the United States (1974–1977), serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973). He also served the Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions. A member of the Rockefeller family, he was also a noted art collector.
Rockefeller, a Republican, was politically moderate. In his time, moderates in the Republican party were called "Rockefeller Republicans". As Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 his achievements included the expansion of the State University of New York, efforts to protect the environment, the building of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza in Albany, increased facilities and personnel for medical care, and creation of the New York State Council on the Arts. After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, he served as Vice President (under the 25th Amendment) from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald R. Ford. Ford ascended to the presidency following the August 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon, over the Watergate Scandal, and Ford selected Rockefeller as his own replacement. But Rockefeller did not join the 1976 Republican national ticket with President Ford, marking his retirement from politics.
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger ( /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders.
A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Various American policies of that era, including the bombing of Cambodia, remain controversial to many.
Kissinger is still a controversial figure today. He is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
Actors: Patricia Reyes Spíndola (actress), Julie Weiss (costume designer), Salma Hayek (actress), Valeria Golino (actress), Ashley Judd (actress), Salma Hayek (producer), Saffron Burrows (actress), Edward Norton (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Mark Amin (producer),
Plot: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, accident, adulterous-wife, adultery, amusement-park, art, art-exhibition, art-modelActors: Paul Giamatti (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Kyle Gass (actor), Peter Fernandez (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), John Cusack (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Jack Black (actor), Rubén Blades (actor), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor),
Plot: In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.
Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, anti-communist, art, artist, bare-breasts, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beaverActors: Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Richard Fancy (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Michael Chiklis (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), John Diehl (actor), Fidel Castro (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), George Bush (actor), Bill Clinton (actor), Powers Boothe (actor), Gerald Ford (actor), Gerald Ford (actor),
Plot: Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, alcoholism, american-president, brother-brother-relationship, campaign, career, character-name-in-titleActors: Brian Keane (composer), Philip Bosco (actor), Steven Culp (actor), Julio Medina (actor), Rosanna DeSoto (actress), Donald Symington (actor), Margaret Hall (actress), Ted Sorel (actor), Ron Parady (actor), Mary Lance (director), Mary Lance (producer), Sara Fishko (editor), Eric Breitbart (writer), Eric Breitbart (producer), John Hutton (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Walker Edmiston (actor), Glynn Turman (actor), Gil Melle (composer), Marvin J. Chomsky (director), Henry Darrow (actor), Andrew Duggan (actor), Richard Gant (actor), Simon Williams (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Morgan Freeman (actor), James Greene (actor), Roger E. Mosley (actor), Paul LaMastra (editor),
Plot: A TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions took 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin immediately, only to continually break down thanks to uncompromising stubbornness on both sides. Four days into the crisis, the rebellion ends in a bloodbath, with state troopers firing on the prisoners, killing several of the guards in the process. Based on the eyewitness reporting of the New York Times' Tom Wicker, who was one of the civilian negotiators during the stalemate.
Keywords: 1970s, anger, attica, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bloodbath, confrontation, convict, docudrama, fight-the-system