Bed like this, designed by Max Ernst, was donated by VP Nelson Rockefeller for main bedroom of Vice President’s Residence (although he refused to live there) at Naval Observatory in Washington DC — had seven-foot mink coverlet, tinted mirrors, trap doors: 
Trap doors in Nelson Rockefeller’s Max Ernst bed for Vice President’s official bedroom were used for lamps, stereo controls, telephones. Or so Rockefeller claimed.
Nelson Rockefeller ordered that mirrors on the Max Ernst bed he purchased for Vice President’s bedroom be painted over in order not to offend some voters. Rockefeller insisted that he had haggled over price of the bed for weeks before buying it.
VP Nelson Rockefeller responds to hecklers, Binghamton, New York, September 1976: #Getty
Anybody want to suggest a caption for this photograph of Nelson Rockefeller and Gerald Ford in Oval Office?
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