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   sign personally. The duty granted her an office with a private entrance   
   to his.   
      
   President Gerald R. Ford chose to drop Mr. Rockefeller from the 1976   
   Republican presidential ticket in favor of Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.   
   When Mr. Rockefeller’s term ended, he brought Ms. Marshack and other   
   aides back to his home office in New York City. Most of them addressed   
   him as “Governor”; Ms. Marshack called him “Nelson.”   
      
   In interviews with Mr. Smith for his book, Rockefeller associates said   
   it was an open secret that Mr. Rockefeller and Ms. Marshack were having   
   an affair. He was married at the time to Margaretta Rockefeller, who was   
   known as Happy.   
      
   In an article published in The San Fernando Valley News just days before   
   his death, Ms. Marshack was quoted as calling Mr. Rockefeller “the most   
   caring man and considerate boss I’ve met.”   
      
   In the early 1980s, Ms. Marshack worked in the news syndication   
   department of CBS and was involved in the coverage of events including   
   the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia, and the   
   trial of Mehmet Ali Agca in the attempted assassination of Pope John   
   Paul II. In 1998, she moved to Placerville, Calif., for a job with The   
   Mountain Democrat, a local newspaper.   
      
   She married a colleague, Edmond Jacoby Jr., in 2003. He died last year   
   after sustaining injuries in a car accident. A year earlier, Ms.   
   Marshack moved to Sacramento to be closer to her brother.   
      
   Mr. Marshack said he never asked his sister about what happened with Mr.   
   Rockefeller.   
      
   Laurie Nadel, a friend from CBS who became a psychotherapist and author,   
   said in an interview that her literary agent once predicted that she   
   could get Ms. Marshack an advance of $1 million for a tell-all memoir.   
   Ms. Marshack took a lunch meeting with the agent but decided she did not   
   want “to make money off this tragedy,” Dr. Nadel said.   
      
   When Ms. Marshack was dying, Dr. Nadel offered to listen to everything   
   she had to say about Mr. Rockefeller and act as the posthumous bearer of   
   the tale. Ms. Marshack declined.   
      
   In an email, Dr. Nadel wrote: “I feel that what Megan ‘did for love’ was   
   keep it private, in her heart, rather than reveal intimate details that   
   could become fodder for cruel jokes.”   
      
      
   Alex Traub works on the Obituaries desk and occasionally reports on New   
   York City for other sections of the paper.   
      
   © 2024 The New York Times Company   
      
   Her self-written obituary:   
   https://www.gormleyandsons.com/obituaries/megan-marshack   
      
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