She was always there, next to former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. She is Megan Ruth Marshack who died at 70 from liver and kidney failure. And she, at 25, was there with him when he died, on January 26, 1979, two years after leaving the vice presidency, at 70 as well from a heart attack.
The two were alone at home, in a house owned by Rockefeller in Manhattan and not at the Rockefeller Center where he worked. She had to dodge quite a few headlines and tabloid stories that greatly embroidered her special relationship with Rockefeller. What everyone unequivocally defined as a love that lasted years. She never spoke about it. She left only a somewhat enigmatic phrase in her funeral announcement (written in her own hand): "I will not forget, I will not regret what I did for love."
Her obituary appears on the website of the Sacramento funeral agency that handled her funeral arrangements.
Meghan Marshack was known as the inseparable press aide of the vice president and 1976 was her last year in office. Upon returning to private life in New York, however, she continued to work for him as director of his art collection and as coordinator of his books and reproductions.
After Rockefeller died of a heart attack in 1979, she returned to her radio career. Marshack worked for CBS News until 1998, covering the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in 1984, the trial of the attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II, and dozens of other stories. She was the producer of "Memories of Vietnam" with the late CBS correspondent Ed Bradley: a documentary of reminiscences by cameramen, sound engineers, producers, and reporters ten years after the fall of Saigon.
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The First Meeting with Rockefeller
During a Rockefeller press conference in 1975 in Los Angeles, Marshack met the former governor of New York. "Señor Vice President..." Rockefeller paused, then responded in Spanish: "Un momento, por favor." "No, ahora, por favor," Marshack asked. "Yes?" Rockefeller asked kindly. "Now, regarding New York City," Marshack continued in English. All the journalists present in the room burst into laughter. She and Rockefeller left the press conference together. She was granted a farewell radio interview when Rockefeller was not chosen by President Ford to run for the 1976 office. Weeks later Rockefeller offered her a job.
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