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On March 20, David Rockefeller (1915-2017) died at his estate in New York State at the age of 101. It is unlikely that there will be an adult who is completely unfamiliar with this surname. This is one of my favorite characters. For the investor community around the world, this event cannot go unnoticed, because the Rockefeller family should be ranked among the most famous and influential financial dynasties. According to statistics, only on a lazy blog, Rockefeller's name in one form or another is mentioned about 20 times. In particular, from the familiar associations with this name, Rockefeller Center comes to mind - a complex of 19 skyscrapers - a symbol of modern New York and, along with Wall Street, the business heart of Manhattan.
David Rockefeller is not only a legend in the financial world, but also a unique medical phenomenon: the man who changed seven hearts. He survived the first heart transplant after a plane crash in 1976, in which the billionaire barely survived. The last transplant, the seventh in a row, occurred at the age of 101, an absolute world record was set for the number of transplants in one person. The Rockefellers are also known for the diversity of their financial interests, from ownership, and, to a passion for investing in and the largest collection of insects on the planet.
Biography of David Rockefeller
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David Rockefeller grew up in the famous and fabulously influential Rockefeller family, whose founder is known as the first billionaire in history. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company, which later grew into an entire oil empire. By the way, its modern successor is the largest oil company in the world, ExxonMobil. It was John Rockefeller who once publicly admitted that he was ready to account for every million earned, except for the first. In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefellers held the second place in the United States in terms of assets, after the Morgan dynasty. David's older brothers held high positions in the American government, up to the vice president.
Photo of John Rockefeller - the founder of the dynasty
David received an excellent education, in 1940 he became a doctor of economics at the University of Chicago, founded by his grandfather. He began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank (then the largest Chase Bank in America), which later became the financial heart of the dynastic empire. Having a doctorate, he began working as a simple clerk and traveled to work by subway. When did the second World War, he went to fight as an ordinary volunteer, then rose to the rank of captain of military intelligence in Algeria.
It will be interesting for the Russian public that David Rockefeller personally met with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, which in no small measure marked the beginning of cooperation with the Soviet Union and subsequently became one of the prerequisites for the end of the Cold War. Chase Manhattan Bank is the first American bank to conduct transactions in the USSR and obtain a banking license here.
Who is he really
For most people, the name Rockefeller means a synonym for wealth, political and economic influence, involvement in a secret club of "money bag" magnates. And there are reasons for this: 100 years ago, his family owned 3% of US GDP. For some, he is a monster of the "Masonic behind the scenes" and a favorite character in numerous worldwide conspiracy theories. For others, it is a philanthropist (philanthropist) who gave over a billion dollars of his personal fortune to charitable projects.
The Rockefeller Charitable Foundation is the second largest in the world, after the Ford Foundation. The Rockefellers are worth $2.5 billion, according to Forbes. Today, the famous dynasty has lost its former position, but the name of the Rockefellers is still familiar to everyone. His name is among the trustees of the largest universities, dozens of schools, hospitals, museums and libraries, which speaks of a passion for educating aspiration in a person. Rockefeller considered making money for the sake of money itself an unworthy occupation. He himself explained his longevity simply: the secret is in love and the ability to share. To questions about how to live long, David replied: "Live a simple life, play with your children, enjoy everything you do." This attitude to your life fits perfectly into the lazy blogging philosophy and is a goal for many investors.
As follows from the biography, David worked all his life, this was laid down in the traditions of his family. John Rockefeller's grandfather's motto is "work and" became a life credo for David. Grandfather told his grandson that if becoming rich is your main and only goal, then you will not achieve this goal. Rockefeller's aphorism is known: "He who works all day has no time to earn money." His father and grandfather always taught David and his brothers that it is wrong to assume that they are guaranteed as much money for life as they need. They were told: the money belongs to God, and we only. Like other gurus of the financial world (such as D. Soros), the Rockefellers professed an unfussy, long-term view of money as capital in the broad sense of the word, including human capital.
How to deal with capital
At the same time, the Rockefeller family cultivated a respectful and careful attitude to the money you earn. Poverty, according to the Rockefellers, deserves sympathy, but does not deserve respect. Being poor is not honorable and a person is simply obliged to make every effort to overcome this condition, to transfer his business or capital to heirs.
I really like the phrase of David's father: "Don't be afraid of big expenses, you should be afraid of small incomes." Also, children and grandchildren were instilled with a reverent attitude towards family and social capital, as a boon for all citizens: “Attractive profit creates jobs, increases wealth and empowers people with opportunities that no social or economic system is capable of.”
From generation to generation, the Rockefeller family passed on the idea that any failure is just a stepping stone to success and prosperity. The Rockefellers have proven this with two hundred years of business history. Attentive readers will surely remember that this thought, which is relevant for any investor, runs like a thread through.
At the end of the article, according to tradition, I will give a few tips from the master, presented in the form of aphorisms:
- Success in business requires training, discipline, and hard work. But if that doesn't scare you, there are more opportunities today than ever before;
- Your well-being depends on your own decisions;
- Friendship based on business is better than business based on friendship;
- Earn a reputation and it will work for you.
All profit!
David Rockefeller, grandson of the world'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.
David Rockefeller died in his sleep at his home in New York. The deceased was the first member 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 ideologues of globalization and neo-conservatism. David Rockefeller also gained fame as a generous benefactor. In 2006, The New York Times reported that he had donated more than $900 million in total.
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 thesis was called "Unused Resources and Economic Waste" (Unused Resources and Economic Waste). In the same year, he first began working in the public service, becoming the secretary of the mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia.
From 1941 to 1942, David Rockefeller worked for the Department of Defense, Health and Welfare.
In May 1942 he entered as a private military service, by 1945 he had risen to the rank of captain. During the war years, he was in North Africa and France, working for military intelligence.
After the war, he participated in various family business projects, in 1947 he became director of the Council for international relations(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 maximum age allowed by the bank's charter for this position.
In 1954, David Rockefeller became the youngest director of the Council on Foreign Relations in history, in 1970-1985 he headed its board of directors, and then was an honorary chairman of the board of directors.
In July 1973, David Rockefeller founded Trilateral Commission- 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 staunch globalist, due to the influence of his father, David early age expanded its ties with the beginning of participation in the meetings of the elite bilderberg club. His participation in the meetings of the Club began in 1954 with the very first Dutch meeting. For decades, he has been a regular participant in the meetings of the Club and a member of the so-called. "committee of governors", which determines the list of invitees to the next annual meetings. This list includes the most significant national leaders, who then go to the polls 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, when he was governor of Arkansas (from this and similar episodes, opinions are born that people supported by the Bilderberg Club become national leaders, or even that the Bilderberg Club decides who should be the leader of a country).
Rockefeller is known as one of the first and most influential ideologues of globalization and neoconservatism. He is credited with a phrase allegedly said by him at a meeting of the Bilderberg Club in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1991: “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other distinguished publications whose leaders have been attending our meetings for almost forty years and respecting their confidentiality. We would not be able to develop our plan for the world order if all these years the spotlights were turned on us. But in our time, the world is more sophisticated and ready to step towards 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 p. 405 of the Memoirs he published (publication on English language) Rockefeller wrote: “For more than a hundred years, ideological extremists at all ends of the political spectrum have enthusiastically referred to certain well-known events, such as my bad experience with Castro, to blame the Rockefeller family for the all-encompassing menacing influence they claim we exert. on American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret political group working against the interests of the United States and characterize my family and me as "internationalists" who have colluded with other groups around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure- a single world, if you like. If this is the charge, then I plead guilty and I'm proud of it.".
He was a supporter of birth control and birth control on a worldwide scale. David Rockefeller fears rising energy and water consumption and pollution atmospheric air 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 population of the Earth."
During his life, David Rockefeller met with many prominent politicians in many countries. Among them (August 1964, about 2 months before the removal of Khrushchev).
The meeting lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. David Rockefeller called it "interesting". According to him, Khrushchev spoke about the need to increase trade between the USSR and the USA (New York Times, September 12, 1964).
The details of the meeting were not disclosed. According to official data, the issue of trade relations between the USSR and the USA was discussed on the eve of the adoption by the US Congress of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which restricts trade relations from 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 the most favored nation regime in trade for the USSR."
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 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 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 Accords were signed, which changed geopolitical situation in the Middle East for 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 (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 the journal Foreign Affairs. At a meeting with the delegation, they were interested in how the USSR was going to integrate into world economy and received appropriate explanations from Mikhail Gorbachev.
The next meeting of 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 MS 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 "an American-style presidential library." The negotiations went on for an hour. The next day, in an interview with The New York Times, David Rockefeller said that Mikhail Gorbachev was "very energetic, extremely alive and full of ideas."
October 20, 2003 David Rockefeller was in Russia again. 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 to be over $900 million.
In 2008, Rockefeller donated $100 million to his alma mater to Harvard University, one of the largest private donations in his 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, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation Trust.
2. Abby Rockefeller (b. 1943) - eldest daughter, rebel, was an adherent of Marxism, admired Fidel Castro, in the late 60s and early 70s was an ardent feminist who belonged to the organization Women's Liberation.
3. Neva Rockefeller Goodwin (b. 1944) is an economist and philanthropist. She is the director of the Global Development And Environment Institute.
4. Peggy Gyulaney (b. 1947) - founder of Synergos Institute in 1986, member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the advisory committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
5. Richard Rockefeller (1949-2014) - physician and philanthropist, Chairman of the Board of Directors 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 aircraft.
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: David's son's children: Ariana and Camille, Neva's daughter's children: David, Miranda, Peggy's daughter's children: Michael, Richard's son's children: Clay and Rebecca, Abby's daughter's children: Christopher, Eileen's daughter's children: Danny and Adam .
One of his granddaughters, Miranda Kaiser (b. 1971), came to the attention of the press in April 2005 when she publicly and without explanation resigned as an investigator in the United Nations Oil-for-Food corruption case.
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, where his wife founded the Simmental meat 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)
David Rockefeller was the representative of the third generation of the famous American financial dynasty. His grandfather, John Rockefeller, was the founder of the Standard Oil Company oil trust, and the country's first dollar billionaire.
David was born in New York on June 12, 1915. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1936 with a degree in English history and literature. But later he entered the London School of Economics. In 1940, the young Rockefeller earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago and married his own age, Margaret McGrath, the daughter of a Wall Street law firm partner. They subsequently had six children in their marriage.
In the same 1940, David began his career. He first worked as a secretary to the mayor of New York, then as an assistant regional director in the Department of Defense, Health and Human Services. However, in May 1942 he went to the front as a private. He served in North Africa and France, served as assistant military attaché in Paris, and was engaged in military intelligence. In 1945 he ended the war as a captain, and in April 1946 he joined the Chase National Bank in New York as assistant manager of the foreign department.
In 1952, David Rockefeller achieved the position of first vice president of the Chase National and facilitated its merger with the Bank of Manhattan. So in 1955, the giant of the financial industry, Chase Manhattan, was created.
From 1961 to 1981, Rockefeller was chairman of the board and at the same time president of Chase Manhattan Bank, and since 1969 he also served as CEO jar. On April 20, 1981, he had to retire due to age, but he remained chairman of the Chase Manhattan International Advisory Committee.
Along with financial activities, David Rockefeller was also involved in other projects, while becoming famous for his neo-globalist and views. He headed the Council on Foreign Relations, was a member of the famous Bilderberg Club, participated in the Dartmouth conferences and the Trilateral Commission, supported various charities and public organizations. By the way, in 2008 he donated $100 million to Harvard University, which is the largest private donation in the history of this institution.
MOSCOW, March 20 - RIA Novosti. Representative of the legendary dynasty of entrepreneurs David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101.
A spokesman for the billionaire said Rockefeller died peacefully in his sleep on Monday at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York, according to the Associated Press.
David Rockefeller is the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and the first dollar billionaire in human history.
John Rockefeller: how to make a billion
He was born in New York on June 12, 1915, graduated from Harvard University, studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago. During World War II, which he started as a private and rose to the rank of captain, Rockefeller worked for military intelligence in North Africa and France. After the war, in 1946, he began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank, and in 1961 became its president. Twenty years later, in 1981, he resigned due to reaching the maximum age allowed by the bank's charter for this position.
Rockefeller is known as a staunch globalist and ideologue of neoconservatism. For many years he was a member of the meetings of the Bilderberg Club, was a member of its "committee of governors." In addition, from 1970-1985 he headed the board of directors of the American Council on Foreign Relations, and then was its honorary chairman.
In the ranking released by Forbes on Monday, Rockefeller ranked 581st along with several other billionaires, whose net worth is also estimated at $3.3 billion. According to Forbes, he was the oldest billionaire in the world.
Bug lover and heart collector David Rockefeller
AP Photo/ Suzanne Plunkett
In 2002, David Rockefeller wrote an autobiographical book, The Banker in the 20th Century. Memoirs (David Rockefeller: Memoirs).
Pictured: Rockefeller handing out autographed books at the United Nations Bookstore in New York, December 17, 2002.
The death of David Rockefeller, the de facto patriarch of the American Establishment, at the age of 101 was hailed by the mainstream media with praise for his supposed benevolence. I would like to contribute to writing a more honest portrait of this man.
Rockefeller American Centenary
In 1939, along with his four brothers - Nelson, John D. III, Lawrence and Winthorpe - David Rockefeller and their "Rockefeller Foundation" funded top secret "peace and war studies" at the New York "Council on Foreign Relations", the very influential private US foreign policy think tank, which was also controlled by the Rockefellers. Even before World War II, a group of American scientists had gathered to plan a post-war world empire that the knowledgeable Henry Luce, publisher of Time and Life magazines, later called the American Century. They set up a program to take over the global empire from the bankrupt Britons, but carefully chose not to call it an empire. They called it "the spread of democracy, freedom, American free enterprise."
Their project looked at the geopolitical map of the world and planned how the US would replace the British Empire as the de facto dominant empire. The creation of the United Nations was an important part of this. The Rockefeller brothers donated land in Manhattan to the UN Headquarters (and in the process made billions from raising the price of adjoining land they also owned). This is the very Rockefeller method of "charity". Any gratuitous assistance is calculated to increase the wealth and influence of the family.
After the war, David Rockefeller dominated US foreign policy and countless wars in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The Rockefeller faction created cold war against Soviet Union and the NATO alliance to keep a resurgent Western Europe in the position of an American vassal. How they did it I documented in my book Gods of Money. Here I will consider several examples of David Rockefeller's crimes against humanity.
Rockefeller Biological Research: "Control people..."
If charity is motivated by love for our neighbor, then Rockefeller Foundation grants are not. Take, for example, medical research. In the period up to 1939 and the beginning of the war, the Rockefeller Foundation financed biological research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. It was Nazi eugenics - how to breed a better race and how to destroy or sterilize those they considered "inferior". Rockefeller funded Nazi eugenics. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company also violated US laws to covertly supply the Nazi Air Force with scarce fuel during the war. After the war, the Rockefeller brothers arranged for leading Nazi scientists, with their papers cleaned up, who had been involved in horrific experiments on humans, to come to the US and Canada to continue their eugenics research. Many worked for the top secret CIA project MK-Ultra.
In the 1950s, the Rockefeller brothers founded the "Population Council" to promote eugenics disguised as population research for birth control. The Rockefeller brothers were responsible in the 1970s for a top secret US government project led by a national security from Rockefeller Kissinger, the NSSM-200 project was called "The Potential Implications of World Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests." The project argued that high population growth in developing countries with such strategic raw materials as oil or minerals is a "threat to national security" of the United States, since more population requires economic growth using these resources within the country (sic!). NSSM-200 made population reduction programs in developing countries a precondition for US aid. In the 1970s, David Rockefeller's "Rockefeller Foundation" also funded, with WHO, the development of a special tetanus vaccine that limited the population by preventing women from being pregnant, literally opposing the very process of human reproduction.
Through organizations such as the Trilateral Commission, Rockefeller was the main author of the destruction of the economies of entire countries and the promotion of so-called globalization - a policy that benefits primarily the largest banks on Wall Street and the City of London and select global corporations - thereby being invited members of its "Trilateral Commission". Rockefeller created the "Trilateral Commission" in 1974 and assigned his close friend Zbigniew Brzezinski the job of selecting its members for North America, Japan and Europe.
If we are talking about an invisible, powerful network that some call the "deep state", then we could say that David Rockefeller considered himself the patriarch of this "deep state". His real actions deserve to be honestly considered for what they were - misanthropic, not humane.
F. William Engdahl is a strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he is a political scientist with a degree from Princeton University and a bestselling author on oil and geopolitics, an article written exclusively for the online magazine
