It was during the administration of Hermes da Fonseca, that the Palace lived its most brilliant moment, with the wedding of the President and Nair de Tefé - a celebrity at the time, due to her beauty, intelligence, and the caricatures that she published under the pseudonym of Rian. President Getúlio Vargas was a frequent visitor. He stayed at the Palace every summer, during his 18 years in office. The palace was more frequently used when the city of Rio de Janeiro was the Capital of Brazil. Since the transfer of the seat of Government to the newly founded Capital City of Brasília, in 1960, use of Rio Negro Palace declined sharply. The palace was not used at all in the 1970s and 1980s although President Fernando Henrique Cardoso resumed use of the palace for brief vacations in the 1990s. Today, Rio Negro Palace is rarely used. Cal Dixon  Calvert Ray Dixon, III (born October 11, 1969) is an American former college and professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1990s. Dixon played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins of the NFL. Dixon was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1969. He attended Merritt Island High School in Merritt Island, Florida, and played high school football for the Merritt Island Mustangs. Dixon accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played center for coach Galen Hall and coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football teams from 1988 to 1991. As a senior in 1991, Dixon was a team captain and a member of the Gators' first Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship squad. He was a first-team All-SEC selection in 1990 and 1991, an Associated Press second-team All-American, the winner of the SEC's Jacobs Blocking Trophy, and the recipient of the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award in 1991. He was also recognized as an SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree all four years and a member of the College Football Association's Scholar-Athlete Team in 1991. The New York Jets selected Dixon in the fifth round (127th pick overall) of the 1992 NFL Draft, and he was a center and guard for the Jets from to . He played in sixty-six NFL games, starting in twelve of them. Dixon finished his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins in .