The Treaty of Fifth Avenue refers to the agreement reached between US Vice President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in July 1960. Although Rockefeller had little influence over the Republican Party's conservative wing, he was the defacto leader of the liberal Republicans. Nixon felt he needed the support of Rockefeller to secure the Republican Party nomination. Nixon feared that Rockefeller, who had recently written an indictment of the Republican Party, would refuse to support him unless the party platform was changed. Nixon and Rockefeller met at Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City where, over the course of four hours (and with other participants joining by phone) they agreed to this fourteen-point compact of security and economic issues. The co