Posted on 03/20/2017 11:42:14 AM PDT by drewh
David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on Monday morning at his home in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He was 101.
Mr. Rockefeller could well be the last of an increasingly less visible family to have cut so imposing a figure on the world stage. As an advocate of the economic interests of the United States and of his own bank, he was a force in global financial affairs and in his country’s foreign policy. He was received in foreign capitals with the honors accorded a chief of state.
He was the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the tycoon who founded the Standard Oil Company in the 19th century and built a fortune that made him America’s first billionaire and his family one of the richest and most powerful in the nation’s history.
As an heir to that legacy, Mr. Rockefeller lived all his life in baronial splendor and privilege, whether in Manhattan or at his country estate.
Imbued with the understated manners of the East Coast elite, he loomed large in the upper reaches of a New York social world of glittering black-tie galas. His philanthropy was monumental, and so was his art collection, a museumlike repository of some 15,000 pieces, many of them masterpieces, some lining the walls of his offices 56 floors above the streets at Rockefeller Center, to which he repaired, robust and active, well into his 90s. Photo
In silent testimony to his power and reach was his Rolodex, a catalog of some 150,000 names of people he had met as a banker-statesman. It required a room of its own beside his office.
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HOW MUCH destruction did he do in those 101 years?
Behold—the NY Times on Kneepads....
beware the Ides of March...this is #3 behind Jimmy Breslin and Chuck Barry
Rumor has it that the baby blood black market has been interrupted lately.
I expect a few more, and right soon.
David Rockfeller poisoned the whole world.
The two you named were small potatoes compared with that.
Evil always seems to live forever...
Teddy Roosevelt’s anti-trust measures eventually forced John D. Rockefeller to accept a break up Standard Oil in the early 1900’s
The resulting companies’ stocks value continued to grow, and actually tripled Rockefeller’s net worth within the next 3 years.
It has been estimated that proportionally, Rockefeller would have been worth $330 billion in today’s dollars.
That’s a lot of money for his heirs to spend on politics, museums, and promoting globalism.
Dang! I was stumping for Soros to be number 3.
““For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.””
David Rockefeller
That was from his memoirs. Glad he’s gone
His grandfather’s fortune in today’s dollars is estimated at $700 billion. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world today according to Forbes, is worth $68 billion.
Chuck Barry was the real king of rock and roll.
Evil always seems to live forever...
Com’on, we all know - ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG !
oh hes prolly burning in hell
Brezinski waas a longtime stooge working for David Rockefeller.
Mika, his sicko daughter, is placed to continue some of the operation.
All things considered, I’d say he lived 100 years too long
HOW MANY US presidents did he put in and control?
Chuck Barry’s music will live hundreds of years into the future, while the schemings of the build-a burgers and trilateralists trying to control the world will be forgotten to history...
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