Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller, the widow of former vice president and New York governor Nelson Rockefeller whose marriage to him triggered a public outrage that hampered his bid for the presidency during the 1960s, died May 19 at her home in Tarrytown, N.Y. She was 88. Tall, winsome and almost 18 years her husband's junior, Happy Rockefeller wrestled with her image as the woman who had caused the breakup of two families when she tied the knot in 1963 with the grandson of the Standard Oil founder. A longtime friend and confidante to one of America's wealthiest families, she enraged middle-class society by giving up custody of her four children to secure a divorce before marrying the man who became the 41st vice president.
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