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David Rockefeller, grandson of history's first dollar billionaire, has died at the age of 101.
At the age of 101, David Rockefeller, the grandson of the first dollar billionaire in history, passed away in the United States.
AP reports this.
David Rockefeller died in his sleep at his home in New York. The deceased was the first of the dynasty to reach a century.
He gained fame not only as a representative of one of the most influential families on the planet, but also as one of the first ideologists of globalization and neoconservatism. David Rockefeller also gained fame as a generous philanthropist. In 2006, The New York Times wrote that he had donated more than $900 million.
David Rockefeller Sr. born June 12, 1915 Born in New York at 10 West 54th Street.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1936 and studied for a year at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In 1940, he defended his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, his dissertation was entitled “Unused Resources and Economic Waste.” In the same year, he began working in public service for the first time, becoming the secretary of New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
From 1941 to 1942, David Rockefeller worked for the Departments of Defense and Health and Welfare.
In May 1942 he entered military service as a private, and by 1945 he had risen to the rank of captain. During the war he was in North Africa and France, working for military intelligence.
After the war, he participated in various family business projects, and in 1947 became director of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1946, he began a long career with Chase Manhattan Bank, of which he became president on January 1, 1961. On April 20, 1981, he resigned due to reaching the age limit allowed by the bank’s charter for this position.
In 1954, David Rockefeller became the youngest director in history of the Council on Foreign Relations; in 1970-1985, he headed its board of directors, and then served as honorary chairman of the board of directors.
Founded in July 1973 by David Rockefeller Trilateral Commission- a private international organization consisting of representatives of North America, Western Europe and Asia (represented by Japan and South Korea), the official purpose of which is to discuss and find solutions to world problems.
A committed globalist, influenced by his father, David expanded his connections at an early age by attending elite meetings Bilderberg Club. His participation in Club meetings began in 1954 with the very first Dutch meeting. For decades, he has been a regular participant in Club meetings and a member of the so-called. a “governing committee” that determines who is invited to the next annual meeting. This list includes the most significant national leaders, who then stand for election in the respective country. This was the case, for example, with Bill Clinton, who first took part in the meetings of the Club back in 1991, while he was the governor of Arkansas (from this and similar episodes, opinions arise that individuals supported by the Bilderberg Club become national leaders, or even that the Bilderberg Club decides who should be the leader of this or that country).
Rockefeller is known as one of the first and most influential ideologues of globalization and neoconservatism. He is credited with a phrase allegedly spoken by him at a Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1991: “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other prominent publications whose leaders attended our meetings and respected their confidentiality for nearly four decades. We would not have been able to develop our plan for world order if the spotlight had been turned on us all these years. But nowadays the world is more sophisticated and is ready to move towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of the intellectual elite and world bankers is undoubtedly preferable to the national self-determination practiced in past centuries.".
In 2002, on page 405 of his Memoirs (English edition), Rockefeller wrote: “For over a hundred years, ideological extremists at all ends of the political spectrum have enthusiastically invoked certain famous events, such as my bad experience with Castro, to blame the Rockefeller family for the pervasive menacing influence they claim we exert.” on American political and economic institutions. Some even believe that we are part of a secret political group working against the interests of the United States, and characterize my family and I as "internationalists" colluding with other groups around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world , if you like. If this is the charge, then I plead guilty and I am proud of it.".
He was a supporter of birth limitation and control on a worldwide scale. David Rockefeller's concern is the growing consumption of energy and water, as well as air pollution due to the growth of the world's population. At a UN conference in 2008, he called on the UN to find “satisfactory ways to stabilize the world population.”
During his life, David Rockefeller met with many prominent politicians from many countries. Among them (August 1964, about 2 months before Khrushchev’s removal).
The meeting lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. David Rockefeller called it "interesting." According to him, Khrushchev spoke about the need to increase trade turnover between the USSR and the USA (New York Times, September 12, 1964).
Details of the meeting were not disclosed. According to official data, the issue of trade relations between the USSR and the USA was discussed in anticipation of the adoption by the US Congress of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, limiting trade relations with the USSR. In an interview with the New York Times on May 22, 1973, D. Rockefeller said: “It seems that Soviet leaders are confident that President Nixon will achieve the introduction of most favored nation treatment for the USSR in trade.”
However, this did not happen and the Jackson-Vanik amendment was adopted in 1974.
Also his counterparts were Fidel Castro, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, the last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
On March 22, 1976, D. Rockefeller “agreed to become an informal financial adviser” to A. Sadat. After 18 months, Sadat announced his readiness to visit Israel, and after another 10 months, the Camp David Agreements were signed, which changed the geopolitical situation in the Middle East in favor of the United States.
In 1989, David Rockefeller visited the USSR at the head of a Trilateral Commission delegation that included former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (a member of the Bilderberg Club and later editor-in-chief of the EU constitution), former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and William Hyland, editor of the Council for International Relations of Foreign Affairs magazine. At the meeting, the delegation was interested in how the USSR was going to integrate into the world economy and received appropriate explanations from Mikhail Gorbachev.
The next meeting between D. Rockefeller and other representatives of the Trilateral Commission and Mikhail Gorbachev, with the participation of his entourage, took place in Moscow in 1991. Then M. S. Gorbachev paid a return visit to New York. On May 12, 1992, already a private citizen, he met with Rockefeller at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The official purpose of the visit was to negotiate for Mikhail Gorbachev to receive financial assistance in the amount of $75 million to organize a global fund and a “presidential library based on the American model.” Negotiations continued for an hour. The next day, in an interview with the New York Times, David Rockefeller said that Mikhail Gorbachev was “very energetic, extremely lively and full of ideas.”
On October 20, 2003, David Rockefeller was again in Russia. The official purpose of the visit is the presentation of the Russian translation of his memoirs. On the same day, David Rockefeller met with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
In November 2006, The New York Times estimated his total donations at more than $900 million.
In 2008, Rockefeller donated $100 million to his alma mater Harvard University, one of the largest private donations in its history.
Personal life of David Rockefeller:
He was married to Margaret "Peggy" McGrath (1915-1996). They married on September 7, 1940. She was the daughter of a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm.
They had six children:
1. David Rockefeller Jr. (b. July 24, 1941) - Vice President of Rockefeller Family And Associates, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Financial Services, Manager of the Rockefeller Foundation Trust.
2. Abbie Rockefeller (b. 1943) - the eldest daughter, a rebel, was an adherent of Marxism, admired Fidel Castro, and in the late 60s and early 70s she was an ardent feminist who belonged to the Women's Liberation organization.
3. Neva Rockefeller Goodwin (b. 1944) - economist and philanthropist. She is the director of the Global Development Andes Environment Institute.
4. Peggy Dulaney (b. 1947) - founder of the Synergos Institute in 1986, member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the committee of advisors of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
5. Richard Rockefeller (1949-2014) - doctor and philanthropist, chairman of the Board of Directors of the international group Doctors Without Borders, manager of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation trust. On June 13, 2014, Richard died in a plane crash. He crashed while flying a single-engine plane.
6. Eileen Rockefeller Groweld (b. 1952) is a venture philanthropist who founded the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Foundation in New York in 2002.
David Rockefeller had 10 grandchildren: son David's children: Ariana and Camilla, daughter Neva's children: David, Miranda, daughter Peggy's children: Michael, son Richard's children: Clay and Rebecca, daughter Abby's children: Christopher, daughter Eileen's children: Danny and Adam .
One of his granddaughters, Miranda Kaiser (b. 1971), attracted the attention of the press in April 2005 when she publicly, without explanation, resigned from her post as a corruption investigator for the UN Oil-for-Food program.
Rockefeller's main home was the Hudson Pines estate, located on family lands in Westchester County. He also owned a house on East 65th Street in Manhattan, New York, as well as a country residence known as the "Four Winds" in Livingston, New York, Columbia County, where his wife founded the Simmental beef farm ( named after a valley in the Swiss Alps).
Bibliography of David Rockefeller:
1941 - Unused Resources and Economic Waste, Doctoral dissertation;
1964 - Creative Management in Banking, “Kinsey Foundation Lectures” series;
1976 - New Roles for Multinational Banks in the Middle East, Cairo, Egypt: General Egyptian Book Organization;
2002 - Memoirs;
2012 - Memories (Russian translation)
On Monday, March 20, the American billionaire died at his home in Pocantico Hills in New York at the age of 102. David Rockefeller, a representative of a famous family of entrepreneurs. The New York Times reports this. According to Forbes, David Rockefeller was the world's oldest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $3.3 billion.
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Dossier
American financier David Rockefeller was born on June 12, 1915 in New York (USA). He is a representative of the third generation of the famous dynasty, which has become the personification of American capitalism.
His grandfather, John Rockefeller, was the founder of one of the largest financial groups in the United States: the Standard Oil Co. oil trust.
David Rockefeller graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1936 with a degree in English history and literature, and later received an economics education (he studied for a year at Harvard University, and then for a year at the London School of Economics).
In 1940 he defended his doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago. That same year, he began working in public service, becoming secretary to the mayor of New York.
From 1941 to 1942, David Rockefeller was Assistant Regional Director for the United States Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services.
In May 1942, he entered military service as a private, and by 1945 he had risen to the rank of captain. During World War II, he was in North Africa and France, was an assistant military attaché in Paris, and worked for military intelligence.
After demobilization, David Rockefeller began working in New York's Chase National Bank in April 1946 as assistant manager of the foreign department. Although the Rockefeller family owned a significant share of the bank and was headed by Rockefeller's uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, nevertheless, David had to climb all the steps of the career ladder.
In 1952, he became the first vice president of Chase National and carried out a merger with the Bank of Manhattan, resulting in one of the largest banks in the United States in 1955: Chase Manhattan Bank.
From 1961 to 1981, David Rockefeller was chairman of the board of Chase Manhattan Bank and, at the same time, president from 1961-1968, and CEO from 1969-1981.
In the 1970s, Rockefeller met with General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev, which allowed Chase Manhattan to become the first American bank to conduct monetary transactions on the territory of the USSR.
In 1981, Rockefeller retired from active management, but remained chairman of the bank's International Advisory Committee. Now this bank - under the name JPMorgan Chase - is one of the largest in the United States.
David Rockefeller participated in various family business projects, and in 1946 became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which advised the US State Department. He was director from 1949, vice president from 1950, chairman from 1970 to 1985, and chairman emeritus from 1985 of the Council on Foreign Relations.
For many years, David Rockefeller was one of the key figures in the creation and work of international non-governmental organizations that left a noticeable mark on world politics: the Bilderberg Club (an annual forum of the Western elite), the Dartmouth conferences (meetings of representatives of the USSR and America on the territory of Dartmouth College in the state of New -Hampshire), Trilateral Commission (brings together representatives of business and political circles of the USA, Europe and Japan).
David continued the Rockefeller tradition of creating and supporting charitable and public organizations: the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for Medical Research, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the General Council on Education.
He was president of Rockefeller University in New York.
In 2002, David Rockefeller wrote an autobiographical book, “A Banker in the Twentieth Century. Memoirs" (David Rockefeller: Memoirs).
In 2004, David became head of the Rockefeller family, overseeing its many charitable and business ventures.
In 2008, he donated $100 million to Harvard University, the largest donation from a former alumnus in the institution's history. The money, at Rockefeller's request, was used to expand the teaching of the humanities and provide financial assistance to students studying abroad.
Health
Throughout his life, Rockefeller underwent six heart surgeries. The first operation was carried out in 1976 after a car accident. According to the media, within a week the banker was jogging. Rockefeller has had a heart transplant several times, most recently in 2015. Surgeons performed a six-hour operation right at the billionaire’s residence.
“Every time I receive a new heart, it’s like a breath of life flows through my body. I feel active and alive. I am often asked the question of how to live long. I always answer the same thing: live a simple life, play with your children, enjoy everything you do,” said David Rockefeller.
Family status
David Rockefeller has been married since 1940 to the daughter of a partner in a prominent Wall Street law firm. Margaret McGrath(1915-1996). In their marriage, the Rockefellers raised six children.
Hobbies
One of Rockefeller's unusual hobbies was collecting insects. He collected more than 40 thousand insects, which is considered the largest collection in the world. According to media reports, the billionaire always carried a jar with him for caught beetles.
Family history
Bilderberg Club
A committed globalist due to his father's influence, David expanded his connections at an early age by attending meetings of the elite Bilderberg Group. His participation in Club meetings began in 1954 with the very first Dutch meeting. For decades, he has been a regular participant in Club meetings and a member of the so-called. a “governing committee” that determines who is invited to the next annual meeting.
This list includes the most significant national leaders, who then stand for election in the respective country. This was the case, for example, with Bill Clinton, who first took part in the meetings of the Club back in 1991, while he was the governor of Arkansas (from this and similar episodes, opinions arise that individuals supported by the Bilderberg Club become national leaders, or even that the Bilderberg Club decides who should be the leader of this or that country).
Views
Rockefeller is known as one of the first and most influential ideologues of globalization and neoconservatism. He is credited with a phrase allegedly spoken by him at a Bilderberg meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1991:
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other prominent publications whose leaders attended our meetings and respected their confidentiality for nearly forty years. We would not have been able to develop our plan for world order if the spotlight had been turned on us all these years. But nowadays the world is more sophisticated and is ready to move towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of the intellectual elite and world bankers is undoubtedly preferable to the national self-determination practiced in centuries past."
In 2002, on page 405 of his Memoirs (English edition), Rockefeller writes:
« For over a hundred years now, ideological extremists at all ends of the political spectrum have enthusiastically invoked certain famous events, such as my bad experience with Castro, to blame the Rockefeller family for the pervasive, menacing influence they claim we have on American political and economic institutions. Some even believe that we are part of a secret political group working against the interests of the United States, and characterize my family and I as "internationalists" colluding with other groups around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world , if you like. If that's the charge, then I plead guilty and I'm proud of it».
Proponent of birth control and restriction on a worldwide scale. David Rockefeller's concern is the growing consumption of energy and water, as well as air pollution due to the growth of the world's population. At a UN conference in 2008, he called on the UN to find " satisfactory ways to stabilize the world population».
Personal life
For many decades he has been devoted to his wife Margaret, whom he lovingly calls Pegi. It is curious that in the history of owners of million-dollar fortunes there are cases of long-term and pure love. Although, of course, history may be silent. In their marriage, the Rockefellers raised six heirs. David Jr. born 1941, Abby 1943, Neva Goodwin 1944, Peggy Dulaney 1947, Richard 1949, and Eileen 1952.
David Sr. currently has 10 grandchildren: children of son David: Ariana and Camilla, children of daughter Neva: David, Miranda, children of daughter Peggy: Michael, children of son Richard: Clay and Rebecca, children of daughter Abby: Christopher, children of daughter Eileen : Danny and Adam.
In general, the clan is expanding and growing. By the way, the oil oligarchs may not be persecuted by the press for nothing, since the notorious story of the voluntary dismissal of Miranda Duncan (Rockefeller’s granddaughter) from the post of investigator in the corruption case under the UN Oil-for-Food program caused a wide resonance in the press.
The Rockefeller family lives in the Hudson Pines residence in Westchester County. David also has a huge house in Manhattan at 65 East Street. There is a house in New York State in Columbia. The Simmental meat farm is also located there.
Interesting
He considered painting complete debauchery and there is still not a single painting in his house - he instilled this dislike in his children. He ate little, treating appetite as a punishment. " What is it: eat and eat, and you want more", he told Henry Ford. By the way, he didn’t skimp on food, but he also considered spending on it pointless. In general, he was a very negative person towards the world, almost a misanthrope. For every generally accepted concept he had a “flattering” epithet. He hated literally everything that his contemporaries breathed: theater, music, secular society (and its members), love, literature. At the same time, he turned out to be very prolific, and his family was very friendly. It is noteworthy that he was strikingly indifferent to earthly goods, and he was interested in making money as a process. He didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, and didn’t have a single mistress. At one time he kept his children in a black body: they wore each other’s clothes and took turns riding the same bicycle. However, this educational moment may have been correct - but they all learned to achieve their goals with their own minds. Such a wonderful man, if not for his sweet character. The first barrel of oil was sold as "an excellent remedy for lice." It is true: lice are still poisoned with kerosene and its derivatives.
He loved chestnuts to death. And he carried them with him everywhere. I ate it for rheumatism, but in fact I almost got used to it. His trouser pockets were always filled with chestnuts.
He founded his first enterprise with borrowed money from his father. Good dad carefully charged penalty interest for late repayment of the debt. By the way, both dad and John himself were dishonest. For example, dad reduced the price of his goods by playing a destitute deaf man. And what’s interesting is that it worked great. Rockefeller subsequently used all methods of unfair competition and actively fed the monster of corruption. With his money, many became henchmen of his methods.
When he turned 96, the insurance company gave him a prize check for five million dollars (much more), since with his longevity he significantly corrected the statistics, which were unfavorable for insurers. This was probably the payment for a ticket to heaven, which John himself joked darkly about alone with his friend Henry, hoping to meet him in heaven.
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On March 20, an American died at his home in Pocantico Hills in New York at the age of 102. billionaire David Rockefeller. He inherited from his grandfather ( oil tycoon, founder of Standard Oil John Rockefeller) a solid starting point, David Rockefeller has earned an impressive reputation in the global financial and political arenas. Globalist, neoconservative, banker, philanthropist, insect collector... What else is known about him?
Oldest of the Richest
In the Forbes list of world billionaires, David Rockefeller is not even in the top 500, occupying 603rd place (his fortune is estimated at approximately $2.5 billion). But Rockefeller Sr. (of the living) is considered the oldest of the richest people on the planet.
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Perhaps all kinds of surgical interventions helped the billionaire live to a ripe old age. The heart of the head of the Rockefeller house alone was transplanted six times. The first such operation was carried out in 1976, after a car accident. According to eyewitnesses, within a week the banker was jogging.
The last time Rockefeller had a heart transplant was less than a month ago. The operation, which surgeons performed right at the billionaire’s residence, lasted six hours.
“Every time I receive a new heart, it’s like a breath of life flows through my body. I feel active and alive.<...>I am often asked the question: how to live long? I always answer the same thing: live a simple life, play with your children, enjoy everything you do,” says David Rockefeller.
From private to captain
Despite belonging to an eminent and wealthy family, David Rockefeller did not avoid participating in the war.
In the early 1940s, he entered military service as a private, and by 1945 he was promoted to captain. During World War II, the future billionaire served in North Africa and France. Worked in military intelligence.
Bug Collector
Judging by the fact that the fortune of Rockefeller Sr. looks quite modest in comparison with other rich residents of the Forbes list (for example, the capital of a Russian Roman Abramovich estimated at $11 billion), David doesn’t really like collecting money. The banker prefers to collect... insects.
According to media reports, the billionaire always carries a jar with him for caught beetles. Its collection numbers 40 thousand insects and is considered the largest in the world.
David Rockefeller with his daughter Peggy. Photo: www.globallookpress.com
Philanthropist
David Rockefeller continues the tradition of philanthropy started by his grandfather John. With the latter's money, the General Educational Council and the Medical Institute were founded. Rockefeller, UN headquarters in New York, and the Chicago Institute.
In 2008, David Rockefeller donated $100 million to Harvard University to expand liberal arts teaching and financial support for students studying abroad. This donation was the largest from a university graduate in the university's 370-year history.
Back in 2006, American media estimated the total amount of Rockefeller's donations at no less than $900 million.
Birth control advocate
David Rockefeller often voices concerns about air pollution and the world's growing consumption of water and energy. Therefore, the billionaire advocates limiting birth control on a global scale.
“The negative impact of human population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming terrifyingly obvious,” said Rockefeller Sr., calling on the UN to find ways to stabilize the Earth’s population.
On March 20, American billionaire David Rockefeller died at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York, at the age of 102. The banker's death was confirmed by Fraser Sitel, a spokesman for the Rockefeller family. The cause of death was congestive heart failure.
David Rockefeller was the "patriarch" of the Rockefeller family and was one of the most influential people in the financial world. He was the grandson of history's first dollar billionaire and founder of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller. David Rockefeller was the younger brother of Nelson Rockefeller, the 41st Vice President of the United States, and the 37th Governor of Arkansas, Winthrop Rockefeller.
Brief biography of David Rockefeller
In the early 40s, David Rockefeller worked in the Departments of Defense, Social Security and Health. In mid-1942, he entered military service with the rank of private, and by 1945 he had risen to the rank of captain. During the Second World War, he was in France and North Africa, working for military intelligence. After the end of the war, he devoted all his energy to working on various family projects. In 1947, David Rockefeller took over as director of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1946, he began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank, which he became head of in 1961. Rockefeller resigned in 1981, as he reached the age limit allowed by the bank's charter for managers.
Throughout his life, David Rockefeller was an adviser to almost all American presidents, starting with Dwight David Eisenhower. Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski are considered to be his closest associates.
Rockefeller was one of the most influential ideologists of globalism and neoconservatism, as well as a supporter of birth control and limitation on a planetary scale. For more than half a century, he was a regular participant in the meetings of the Bilderberg Club and a member of the “committee of managers”, which determined the lists of those invited to the club’s meetings.
David Rockefeller's legacy
According to Forbes magazine, David Rockefeller's fortune was $3.3 billion.
Analysts agree that the vast majority of the funds belonging to David Rockefeller will traditionally go to Harvard University and family foundations. It should be noted that in 2010, Rockefeller was a participant in The Giving Pledge, which was organized by Bill Gates. The name of the action translated into Russian means “oath of giving.” Invited participants in the event pledged to donate less than half of their wealth to charity. The rest of the money will be inherited by David Rockefeller's six children.