Nelson Rockefeller was a politician who has assumed many titles. Rockefeller is best known for holding the position of the Forty-first Vice President of the Unites States under Gerald Ford in the mid-seventies. However, his political influence began two decades earlier, when he served as Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Foreign Affairs. In 1953, Rockefeller became undersecretary in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Soon after, he was appointed head of a committee that was responsible for facilitating several supervised CIA operations. Rockefeller concurrently assumed the title of president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which financed the Special Studies Project, a seven panel planning group that helped identify national problems and opportunities. The Special Studies Project came into public knowledge when it described military subpanel reports that regarded confrontation with the USSR. Finally, Rockefeller left Eisenhower's government in 1956 before being elected governor of the state of New York.
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