As always, you don't really want to go entirely by the headline. The mural did a bit more than trespass on a political vision: Then, the World Telegram newspap

As always, you don't really want to go entirely by the headline. The mural did a bit more than trespass on a political vision: Then, the World Telegram newspaper ran the headline: "Rivera Paints Scenes of Communist Activity and John D. Jr. Foots the Bill." Pliego says Rivera then decided to add a portrait of communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin to the mural. "He sent his assistants to find a picture of Lenin because, he said, 'If you want communism, I will paint communism,' " Pliego says. On top of that, according to David Rockefeller Sr., Rivera added a panel that the family felt was an unflattering portrait of his father. "The picture of Lenin was on the right-hand side, and on the left, a picture of [my] father drinking martinis with a harlot and various other things that were unflattering to the family and clearly inappropriate to have as the center of Rockefeller Center," he said.