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{{short description|American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = David Rockefeller
| image               = David Rockefeller, 1984 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Rockefeller in 1984
| office              = Chairman of the {{avoid wrap|[[Council on Foreign Relations]]}}
| term_start          = 1970
| term_end            = 1985
| predecessor         = [[John J. McCloy]]
| successor           = [[Peter George Peterson]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1915|6|12}}
| birth_place         = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2017|3|20|1915|6|12}}
| death_place         = [[Pocantico Hills, New York]], U.S.
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Margaret Rockefeller|Margaret McGrath]]|1940|1996|end=died}}
| profession          = Investment banker
| occupation          = {{flatlist|
*  Financial executive
* philanthropist
* writer}}
| children            = {{hlist|David Jr.|[[Abby Rockefeller (ecologist)|Abigail]]|[[Neva Goodwin|Neva]]|[[Peggy Dulany|Margaret]]|[[Richard Rockefeller|Richard]]|[[Eileen Rockefeller Growald|Eileen]]}}
| parents             = {{ubl|[[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]]|[[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller|Abigail Greene Aldrich]]}}
| relatives           = [[Rockefeller family]]
| education           = {{ubl|[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[London School of Economics]]|[[University of Chicago]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| allegiance          = United States
| branch              = [[United States Army]]
| serviceyears        = 1942–1945
| battles             = [[World War II]]
| rank                = [[Captain (United States)|Captain]]
}}
'''David Rockefeller''' (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American economist and [[investment banker]] who served as chairman and chief executive of [[Chase Manhattan Corporation]]. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the [[Rockefeller family]], and family patriarch from 2004 until his death in 2017.<ref name=James>{{cite news |title=James S. Rockefeller, 102, Dies; Was a Banker and a '24 Olympian |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/business/james-s-rockefeller-102-dies-was-a-banker-and-a-24-olympian.html |quote= James Stillman Rockefeller, who helped capture an Olympic rowing title for the United States before a banking career with a company that eventually become Citigroup, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., his family announced. He was 102. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 11, 2004 |access-date=2012-09-16 }}</ref> Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] and [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller]], and a grandson of [[John D. Rockefeller]] and [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller]].

He was noted for his wide-ranging political connections and foreign travel, in which he met with many foreign leaders. His fortune was estimated at $3.3 billion at the time of his death.<ref name=Forbes>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/david-rockefeller-sr/?list=billionaires |title=David Rockefeller, Sr. |access-date=March 20, 2017 |magazine=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>

== Early life ==
{{See also|Rockefeller family}}
Rockefeller was born in [[New York City]], where he grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West [[54th Street]], the tallest private residence ever built in the city at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-lost-j-d-rockefeller-jr-house-no-10.html|title=Daytonian in Manhattan: The Lost J. D. Rockefeller Jr. House – No. 10 W 54th St.|last=Miller|first=Tom|date=March 18, 2013|website=Daytonian in Manhattan|access-date=May 24, 2016}}</ref> Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.|John Davison Rockefeller Jr.]] and socialite [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller|Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bee |first=Harriet Schoenholz |title=Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art |last2=Elligott |first2=Michelle |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-87070-001-9 |location=New York, NY |pages=19}}</ref> His father John Jr. was the only son of [[Standard Oil]] co-founder [[John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller Sr.]] and schoolteacher [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller|Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weir |first=Robert E. |title=Class in America: An Encyclopedia |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-06835-5 |location=New York, NY |pages=712}}</ref>

His mother Abby was a daughter of [[List of United States Senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island U.S. Senator]] [[Nelson W. Aldrich|Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich]] and Abigail Pearce Truman "Abby" Chapman.<ref name=":0" /> David's five elder siblings were [[Abby Rockefeller Mauzé|Abby]], [[John D. Rockefeller III|John III]], [[Nelson Rockefeller|Nelson]], [[Laurance Rockefeller|Laurance]], and [[Winthrop Rockefeller|Winthrop]].

Rockefeller attended the experimental [[New Lincoln School#History|Lincoln School]] at 123rd Street in [[Harlem]]. The school, which was associated with Columbia University, was founded with the help of Rockefeller's educational philanthropy, the General Education Board.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Little |first=Carl |title=The Art of Dahlov Ipcar |publisher=Down East Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-89272-809-1 |pages=122}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Reisch |first=George A. |title=The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds" |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4384-7367-3 |pages=6}}</ref>

=== Education ===
In 1936, Rockefeller graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from [[Harvard University]], where he worked as an editor on ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bethell |first1=John T. |last2=Hunt |first2=Richard M. |last3=Shenton |first3=Robert |date= June 30, 2009|title=Harvard A to Z |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGrBJFRw1GsC&q=david+rockefeller+%22harvard+crimson%22+editor&pg=PA183 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=183 |isbn=978-0-674-01288-2 |access-date=January 4, 2018 }}</ref> He also studied economics for a year at Harvard and then a year at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE) under [[Friedrich von Hayek]]. He once dated [[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]].<ref name="DavidKathleen">{{cite web|title=The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys Before 1960|url=http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Fitzgeralds-and-the-Kennedys-Before-1960-285973.html|publisher=funtrivia.com|access-date=November 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104210316/http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Fitzgeralds-and-the-Kennedys-Before-1960-285973.html|archive-date=November 4, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
During his time abroad, Rockefeller briefly worked in the London branch of what was to become the [[Chase Manhattan Bank]].

After returning to the United States to complete his graduate studies, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-david-rockefeller-dies-obit-20170320-story.html|title=David Rockefeller Sr., steward of family fortune and Chase Manhattan Bank, dies at 101|last=Smith|first=Timothy R.|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=November 6, 2017}}</ref>

== Career==
=== Government service===
After completing his studies in Chicago, he became secretary to New York Mayor [[Fiorello La Guardia]] for eighteen months in a "[[One-dollar salary|dollar a year]]" public service position. Although the mayor pointed out to the press that Rockefeller was only one of 60 interns in the city government, his working space was the vacant office of the deputy mayor.<ref>{{harvp|Harr|Johnson|1988|p=392}}</ref> From 1941 to 1942, Rockefeller was assistant regional director of the United States Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services.

=== Military ===
Rockefeller enlisted in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] and entered [[Officer Candidate School (United States Army)|Officer Candidate School]] in 1943. He was promoted to [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]] in 1945. During World War II he served in North Africa and France (he spoke fluent French) for [[military intelligence]], setting up political and economic intelligence units. He served as a "[[Ritchie Boys|Ritchie Boy]]" secret unit specially trained at [[Fort Ritchie, Maryland]].<ref>CBS, "60 Minutes," Season 53, episode 34, first presented May 9, 2021.</ref> For seven months he served as an assistant military attaché at the [[Diplomatic missions of the United States|American Embassy]] in Paris. During this period, he called on family contacts and Standard Oil executives for assistance.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=113}}</ref><!-- assistance with what? -->

=== Banking ===
[[File:Investcorp, Dr. Jawad Hashim, David Rockefeller, Nemir Kirdar.jpg|thumb|David Rockefeller meeting Iraqi financiers Jawad Hashim and [[Nemir Kirdar]] in 1979.]]
In 1946, Rockefeller joined the staff of the longtime family-associated Chase National Bank.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/business/david-rockefeller-dead-chase-manhattan-banker.html?_r=0 |title=David Rockefeller, Philanthropist and Head of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 101 |last= Kandell |first= Jonathan |access-date=March 20, 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 20, 2017}}</ref> The chairman at that time was Rockefeller's uncle [[Winthrop W. Aldrich]].<ref name="The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: M-Z">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzQOAQAAMAAJ |title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: M-Z |publisher=C. Scribner's Sons |year=2003 |isbn=9780684312224 |editor-last=O'Neill |editor-first=William L. O'Neill |edition=illustrated |page=270}}</ref> The Chase Bank was primarily a wholesale bank,<ref name="A Financial History of the United States: From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons (1492-1900)">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRjmQLOscGoC&pg=PA308 |title=A Financial History of the United States: From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons (1492-1900) |last=Markham |first=Jerry W.  |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |year=2002 |isbn=9780765607300 |edition=illustrated |page=308}}</ref> dealing with other prominent financial institutions and major corporate clients such as [[General Electric]], which had, through its [[RCA]] affiliate, leased prominent space and become a crucial first tenant of [[Rockefeller Center]] in 1930. The bank is closely associated with and has financed the [[oil industry]], having longstanding connections with its board of directors to the successor companies of Standard Oil, especially [[Exxon Mobil]]. Chase National became the [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] in 1955<ref name="nytimes"/> and shifted significantly into consumer banking. It is now called [[JPMorgan Chase]].<ref name="International Business Law: Cases and Materials">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tblUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT97 |title=International Business Law: Cases and Materials |last=Cameron III |first=George D. |publisher=Van Rye Publishing, LLC |year=2015 |isbn=9780990367147 |page=97}}</ref>

Rockefeller started as an assistant manager in the foreign department. There he financed international trade in a number of commodities, such as coffee, sugar and metals. This position maintained relationships with more than 1,000 correspondent banks throughout the world. He served in other positions and became president in 1960. He was both the chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980 and remained chairman until 1981. He was also, as recently as 1980, the single largest individual shareholder of the bank, holding 1.7% of its shares.<ref>"The Change at David's Bank", ''Time'', September 1, 1980.</ref>

During his term as CEO, Chase spread internationally and became a central component of the world's financial system due to its global network of correspondent banks, the largest in the world. In 1973, Chase established the first branch of an American bank in Moscow, in the then [[Soviet Union]]. That year Rockefeller traveled to China, resulting in his bank becoming the National Bank of China's first correspondent bank in the U.S.<ref name="jpmorganchase">{{Cite web |url=https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/document/shorthistory.pdf |title=The History of JPMorgan Chase & Co. |website=www.jpmorganchase.com |access-date=March 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412231822/https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/document/shorthistory.pdf |archive-date=April 12, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During this period, Chase Manhattan expanded its influence over many non-financial corporations. A 1979 study titled "The Significance of Bank Control over Large Corporations"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kotz|first=David|date=1979|title=The Significance of Bank Control over Large Corporations|journal=Journal of Economic Issues|volume=13|issue=2|pages=407–426|doi=10.1080/00213624.1979.11503647|jstor=4224816}}</ref> provided an estimate for which large U.S.-based financial institutions had the most control over other corporations. The study finds that: {{blockquote|"The Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank tops the list, controlling 16 companies."}}He was faulted for spending excessive amounts of time abroad, and during his tenure as CEO the bank had more troubled loans than any other major bank. Chase owned more New York City securities in the mid-1970s, when the city was nearing bankruptcy. A scandal erupted in 1974 when an audit found that losses from bond trading had been understated. In 1975 the bank was branded a "problem bank" by the [[Federal Reserve System|Federal Reserve]].<ref name="nytimes" />

From 1974 to 1976, Chase earnings fell 36 percent while those of its biggest rivals rose 12 to 31 percent. The bank's earnings more than doubled between 1976 and 1980, far outpacing its rival [[Citibank]] in [[return on assets]]. By 1981 the bank's finances were restored to full health.<ref name="nytimes" />

In November 1979, while chairman of the Chase Bank, Rockefeller became embroiled in an international incident when he and [[Henry Kissinger]], along with [[John J. McCloy]] and Rockefeller aides, persuaded President [[Jimmy Carter]] through the [[United States Department of State]] to admit the Shah of Iran, [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], into the United States for hospital treatment for [[lymphoma]]. This action directly precipitated what is known as the [[Iran hostage crisis]] and placed Rockefeller under intense media scrutiny, particularly from ''[[The New York Times]]'', for the first time in his public life.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|pp=356–375}}</ref>

Rockefeller retired from active management of the bank in 1981, succeeded by his protégé [[Willard C. Butcher]]. Former Chase chairman John J. McCloy said at the time that he believed Rockefeller would not go down in history as a great banker but rather as a "real personality, as a distinguished and loyal member of the community".<ref name="nytimes" />

== Political connections ==
Rockefeller traveled widely and met with both foreign rulers and U.S. presidents, beginning with [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. At times he served as an unofficial emissary on high-level business.<ref name="Around the world in 90 years">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1t2AAAAMAAJ |title=Around the world in 90 years |last=Janus |first=Christopher George  |publisher=Sheffield Books |year=2003 |page=63}}</ref>  Among the foreign leaders he met were [[Saddam Hussein]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]], and [[Mikhail Gorbachev]].<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=194}}</ref>

In 1968, he declined an offer from his brother [[Nelson Rockefeller]], then [[governor of New York]],  to appoint him to [[Robert F. Kennedy]]'s Senate seat after Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, a post Nelson also offered to their nephew [[Jay Rockefeller|John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV]].<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=485}}</ref> President [[Jimmy Carter]] offered him the position of [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] but he declined.<ref name="Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0y96IB9jsQC&pg=PT35 |title=Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend |last=Treaster |first=Joseph B.  |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2011 |isbn=9781118160855 |page=35}}</ref>

Rockefeller was criticized for befriending foreign [[Autocracy|autocrats]] in order to expand Chase interests in their countries. ''The New York Times'' columnist [[David Brooks (cultural commentator)|David Brooks]] wrote in 2002  that Rockefeller "spent his life in the club of the ruling class and was loyal to members of the club, no matter what they did." He noted that Rockefeller had cut profitable deals with "oil-rich dictators", "Soviet party bosses" and "Chinese perpetrators of the [[Cultural Revolution]]".<ref name="nytimes" />

Rockefeller met [[Henry Kissinger]] in 1954, when Kissinger was appointed a director of a seminal [[Council on Foreign Relations]] study group on nuclear weapons, of which David Rockefeller was a member.<ref>{{harvp|Isaacson|2005|p=84}}</ref><ref>{{harvp|Grose|1996}}</ref> He named Kissinger to the board of trustees of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]], and consulted with him frequently, with the subjects including the Chase Bank's interests in Chile and the possibility of the [[1970 Chilean presidential election|election of Salvador Allende]] in 1970.<ref>{{harvp|Isaacson|2005|p=289}}</ref> Rockefeller supported his "opening of China" initiative in 1971 as it afforded banking opportunities for the Chase Bank.<ref>{{harvp|Wilson|1986|pp=229–230}}</ref>

Though a lifelong [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and party contributor, he was a member of the moderate "[[Rockefeller Republicans]]" that arose out of the political ambitions and public policy stance of his brother Nelson. In 2006, he teamed up with former [[Goldman Sachs]] executives and others to form a fund-raising group based in Washington, Republicans Who Care, that supported moderate Republican candidates over more ideological contenders.<ref>{{cite news |last=Forsythe |first=Michael |date=October 17, 2006 |title='Rockefeller Republicans' Open Wallets to Back Party Moderates |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a9_JqgSLvSgo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041712/https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a9_JqgSLvSgo |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |publisher=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg.com]] |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref>

=== Central Intelligence Agency ties ===
Rockefeller was acquainted with [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) director [[Allen Dulles]] and his brother, Eisenhower administration Secretary of State [[John Foster Dulles]]—who was an in-law of the family<ref>{{harvp|Perloff|1988|p=104}}</ref>—since his college years.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=149}}</ref> It was in Rockefeller Center that Allen Dulles had set up his WWII operational center after [[Pearl Harbor]], liaising closely with [[MI6]], which also had their principal U.S. operation in the center.<ref>{{harvp|Srodes|1999|pp=207, 210}}</ref> He also knew and associated with the former CIA director [[Richard Helms]] as well as [[Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr.]], a Chase Bank employee and former CIA agent whose first cousin, CIA agent [[Kermit Roosevelt Jr.]], was involved in the [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|Iran coup of 1953]].<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=363}}</ref>

In 1953, he had befriended [[William Bundy]], a pivotal CIA analyst for nine years in the 1950s, who became the Agency liaison to the [[National Security Council (USA)|National Security Council]], and a subsequent lifelong friend.<ref>{{harvp|Bird|1998|pp=180–181}}</ref> In Cary Reich's biography of his brother Nelson, a former CIA agent states that David was extensively briefed on covert intelligence operations by himself and other Agency division chiefs, under the direction of David's "friend and confidant", CIA director Allen Dulles.<ref>{{harvp|Reich|1996|p=559}}</ref>

== Policy groups ==

[[File:David Rockefeller Launches IESC in White House Rose Garden in 1964.jpg|thumb|alt= In this photo, David Rockefeller takes the podium as President Lyndon Johnson looks on in the White House Rose Garden on June 15, 1964, to announce the launch of the International Executive Service Corps.|David Rockefeller launches the [[International Executive Service Corps]] in the [[White House Rose Garden]], 1964.]]

In 1964, along with other American business figures such as [[Sol Linowitz]], Rockefeller founded the non-profit [[International Executive Service Corps]], which encourages developing nations to promote private enterprise.<ref>{{cite news|last=Holley|first=Joe|title=Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz, 91, Dies|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47416-2005Mar18.html|access-date=October 3, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 18, 2005}}</ref>  In 1979, he formed the [[Partnership for New York City]], a not-for-profit membership organization of New York businessmen.<ref>[http://www.nycp.org/bod.html Newyorkcitypartnership.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061215200114/http://www.nycp.org/bod.html |date=December 15, 2006 }}</ref> In 1992, he was selected as a leading member of the Russian-American Bankers Forum, an advisory group set up by the head of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]] to advise Russia on the modernization of its banking system, with the full endorsement of President [[Boris Yeltsin]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/20/world/us-advisers-will-aid-russians-in-modernizing-banking-system.html|title=U.S. Advisers Will Aid Russians In Modernizing Banking System|first=Michael|last=Quint|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 20, 1992|access-date=March 23, 2008}}</ref>

Rockefeller had a lifelong association with the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR) when he joined as a director in 1949.<ref>{{harvp|Zweig|1995|p=110}}</ref> In 1965, Rockefeller and other businessmen formed the [[Council of the Americas]] to stimulate and support economic integration in the Americas. In 1992, at a Council sponsored forum, Rockefeller proposed a "Western Hemisphere free trade area", which became the [[Free Trade Area of the Americas]] in a Miami summit in 1994. His and the council's chief liaison to President [[Bill Clinton]] in order to garner support for this initiative was through Clinton's chief of staff, [[Mack McLarty]], whose consultancy firm [[Kissinger McLarty Associates]] is a corporate member of the council, while McLarty himself is on the board of directors.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=437}}</ref> He was a trustee of the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]], including in 1948, when [[Alger Hiss]] was president.<ref>{{cite magazine
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Displeased with the refusal of [[Bilderberg Group]] meetings to include Japan, Rockefeller helped found the [[Trilateral Commission]] in July 1973.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=416}}</ref>

== Later career ==
[[File:New York City 06.jpg|thumb|A plaque honoring David Rockefeller's work on behalf of New York City]]
After the war and alongside his work at Chase, Rockefeller took a more active role in his family's business dealings. Working with his brothers in the two floors of [[Rockefeller Center]] known as [[30 Rockefeller Plaza#Rockefeller family offices|Room 5600]], he reorganized the family's myriad business and philanthropic ventures. The men kept regular "brothers' meetings" where they made decisions on matters of common interest and reported on noteworthy events in each of their lives. Rockefeller served as secretary to the group, making notes of each meeting. The notes are now in the family archive and will be released in the future.<ref>{{harvp|Harr|Johnson|1988|pp=530–531, 603''n''}}</ref> Following the deaths of his brothers, Winthrop (1973), John III (1978), Nelson (1979), and [[Laurance Rockefeller|Laurance]] (2004), David became sole head of the family (with the important involvement of his elder son, David Jr.).

Rockefeller ensured that selected members of the fourth generation, known generically as the ''cousins'', became directly involved in the family's institutions. This involved inviting them to be more active in the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]], the principal foundation established in 1940 by the five brothers and their one sister. The extended family also became involved in their own philanthropic organization, formed in 1967 and primarily established by third-generation members, called the Rockefeller Family Fund.<ref name="Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vIdSBOiSazsC&pg=PA273 |title=Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering |last=Grimm |first=Robert T.  |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2002 |isbn=9781573563406 |edition=illustrated |page=273}}</ref>

In the 1980s, Rockefeller became embroiled in controversy over the mortgaging and sale of Rockefeller Center to Japanese interests. In 1985, the Rockefeller family mortgaged the property for $1.3 billion, with $300 million of that going to the family. In 1989, 51 percent of the property, later increased to 80 percent, was sold to [[Mitsubishi]] Estate Company of Japan. This action was criticized for surrendering a major U.S. landmark to foreign interests.<ref name="nytimes" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/business/philanthropy-for-the-21st-century.html?pagewanted=all|title=Philanthropy for the 21st Century|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 5, 1989|access-date=March 23, 2008}}</ref> In 2000, Rockefeller presided over the final sale of Rockefeller Center to [[Tishman Speyer Properties]], along with the Crown family of Chicago, which ended the more than 70 years of direct family financial association with Rockefeller Center.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/arts/new-york-s-cultural-power-brokers-mixing-real-estate-business-everyone-s.html?sec=health "New York's Cultural Power Brokers"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. June 2, 2004.</ref>

In 2005, he gave $100 million to the Museum of Modern Art and $100 million to [[Rockefeller University]], two of the most prominent family institutions; as well as $10 million to [[Harvard]] and $5 million to [[Colonial Williamsburg]]. In 2006, he pledged $225 million to the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] upon his death, the largest gift in the Fund's history. The money will be used to create the ''David Rockefeller Global Development Fund'', to support projects that improve access to health care, conduct research on international finance and trade, fight poverty, and support sustainable development, as well as to a program that fosters dialogue between Muslim and Western nations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHnF.V2ikeIY&refer=home|title=David Rockefeller Pledges $225 Million to Family Fund (Update1)|work=bloomberg.com|access-date=October 2, 2015}}</ref> Rockefeller donated $100 million to [[Harvard University]] in 2008.<ref>[http://post.harvard.edu/alumninews/html/rockefeller.html Post.harvard.edu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428223958/http://post.harvard.edu/alumninews/html/rockefeller.html |date=April 28, 2008 }}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' estimated in November 2006 that his total charitable donations amount to $900 million over his lifetime, a figure that was substantiated by a monograph on the family's overall benefactions, entitled ''The Chronicle of Philanthropy''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/nyregion/21mbrfs-MANHATTANARO_BRF.html|title=Manhattan: A Rockefeller Plans a Huge Bequest|first=Stephanie|last=Strom|date=November 21, 2006|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>

He published ''Memoirs'' in 2002, the only time a member of the Rockefeller family has written an autobiography.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=499}}</ref>

Rockefeller was a noted [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalist]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: David Rockefeller died on March 20th|url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21720201-banker-and-philanthropist-was-101-obituary-david-rockefeller-died-march-20th|access-date=10 April 2017|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=8 Apr 2017}}</ref>

Rockefeller's will requires his estate, once assets are liquidated, to donate over $700 million to various non-profits, including Rockefeller University, the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard. The largest donation will be either $250 million or the remaining balance of the estate that will fund the launch of the David Rockefeller Global Development Fund.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2017/04/20/billionaire-david-rockefellers-will-is-made-public-so-whats-in-it/#4abb8aaa23f6 Inside Late Billionaire David Rockefeller's Will: Picassos, A Beetle Collection And A Maine Island] Fortune, Retrieved 21 April 2017</ref>

==Internationalist conspiracy==
Throughout his life, Rockefeller was accused of being part of an internationalist conspiracy seeking to undermine the interests of the United States and promote a more unified global order.<ref name="harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=405">{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=405}}</ref> One of Rockefeller's most prominent accusers was Georgia Congressman [[Larry McDonald|Lawrence Patton McDonald]], who in the 1975 book, ''The Rockefeller File'', wrote:

{{blockquote
|text=The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world.

Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.<ref name="Allen76Cons">{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=Gary |title=The Rockefeller File |publisher='76 Press |year=1976 |isbn=9780892450015 |pages=4}}</ref>}}In response to accusations of this type, David Rockefeller himself wrote in his 2003 book, ''Memoirs'':{{blockquote
|text=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.<ref name="harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=405">{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|p=405}}</ref>}}

==Personal life==

In 1940, Rockefeller married [[Margaret Rockefeller|Margaret "Peggy" McGrath]], who died in 1996.<ref name="nytimes"/> They had six children:

# David Rockefeller Jr. (born July 24, 1941)<ref name="nytimes"/> – vice chairman, Rockefeller Family & Associates (the family office, Room 5600); chairman of Rockefeller Financial Services; Trustee of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]; former chairman of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]] and Rockefeller & Co., Inc., among many other family institutions. 
# [[Abby Rockefeller (ecologist)|Abigail Aldrich "Abby" Rockefeller]] (born 1943) – ecologist and feminist. Eldest and most rebellious daughter, she was drawn to [[Marxism]] and was an ardent admirer of [[Fidel Castro]] and a late 1960s/early 1970s [[radical feminism|radical feminist]]<ref>{{harvp|Echols|1989|pp=158 (& perhaps n. 106), 163 & nn. 132–133, & 211 & n. 37}}</ref> who belonged to the organization Female Liberation, later forming a splinter group called [[Cell 16]].<ref>[http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/M122findprint.htm Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302072858/http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/M122findprint.htm |date=March 2, 2009 }}.</ref> An environmentalist and ecologist, she has been an active supporter of the [[women's liberation movement]].
# [[Neva Goodwin|Neva Rockefeller]] (born 1944<ref name="nytimes"/>) – economist. She is director of the [[Global Development and Environment Institute]]; trustee and vice chair of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]].
# [[Peggy Dulany|Margaret Dulany "Peggy" Rockefeller]] (born 1947)<ref name="nytimes"/> – founder of the [[Synergos Institute]] in 1986; board member of the Council on Foreign Relations; serves on the advisory committee of the [[David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies]] at [[Harvard University]].
# [[Richard Rockefeller|Richard Gilder Rockefeller]] (1949–2014)<ref>Santora, Marc, [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/nyregion/richard-rockefeller-killed-in-new-york-plane-crash.html "Richard Rockefeller Killed in New York Plane Crash"], New York ''Times'', June 13, 2014' retrieved June 13, 2014.</ref> – physician; chairman of the United States advisory board of the international aid group [[Doctors Without Borders]]; trustee and chair of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]].
# [[Eileen Rockefeller Growald|Eileen Rockefeller]] (born February 26, 1952)<ref name="nytimes"/> – Founding Chair of [[Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors]], established in New York City in 2002.

===Death===
Rockefeller died in his sleep from [[congestive heart failure]] on March 20, 2017, at his home in [[Pocantico Hills, New York]]. He was 101 years old.<ref name="deathcause">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/national/david-rockefeller-sr-steward-of-family-fortune-and-chase-manhattan-bank-dies-at-101/2017/03/20/f2385f8a-0d7c-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html |title=David Rockefeller Sr., steward of family fortune and Chase Manhattan Bank, dies at 101 |last=Smith |first=Timothy R. |date=March 20, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/business/david-rockefeller-dead-chase-manhattan-banker.html|title=David Rockefeller, Head of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 101|last=Kandell|first=Jonathan|date=March 20, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=November 6, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Wealth==
At the time of his death, ''Forbes'' estimated Rockefeller's net worth was $3.3 billion.<ref name=Forbes/> Initially, most of his wealth had come to him via the family trusts created by his father, which were administered by Room 5600 and [[Chase Bank]]. In turn, most of these trusts were held as shares in the successor companies of [[Standard Oil]], as well as diverse real estate investment partnerships, such as the expansive [[Embarcadero Center]] in San Francisco, which he later sold for considerable profit, retaining only an indirect stake. In addition, he was or had been a partner in various properties such as [[Caneel Bay]], a {{convert|4000|acre|km2|adj=on}} resort development in the [[Virgin Islands]]; a cattle ranch in Argentina; and a {{convert|15500|acre|km2|adj=on}} sheep ranch in Australia.<ref>{{harvp|Hoffman|1971|p=131}}</ref>

Another major source of asset wealth was his art collection, ranging from [[impressionist]] to [[postmodern]], which he developed through the influence upon him of his mother Abby and her establishment, with two associates, of the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City in 1929.<ref>{{harvp|Rockefeller|2002|pp=442–462}}</ref> The collection, valued at several hundred million dollars, was auctioned in the spring of 2018, with proceeds going to several designated nonprofit organizations, including Rockefeller University, Harvard University, the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.<ref name="VF2017"/>

==Residences==
[[File:Gustavia_Harbor,_Saint-Barthélemy.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy|Gustavia]] in [[Saint Barthélemy]]]]

Rockefeller's principal residence was at "Hudson Pines", on the family estate in [[Pocantico Hills, New York]]. He had a Manhattan residence at 146 East 65th Street,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-06-11|title=Brown Harris Stevens {{!}} Luxury Real Estate|url=http://www.bhsusa.com/manhattan/upper-east-side/146-east-65th-street/townhouse/16846115|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611234236/https://www.bhsusa.com/manhattan/upper-east-side/146-east-65th-street/townhouse/16846115|archive-date=2017-06-11|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Brown Harris Stevens}}</ref><ref name="VF2017">{{cite magazine|last1=Reginato|first1=James|title=David Rockefeller and the Largest Art Auction of All Time|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/david-rockefeller-and-the-largest-art-auction-of-all-time|access-date=19 December 2017|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=December 2017}}</ref> as well as a country residence (known as "Four Winds") at a farm in [[Livingston, New York]] ([[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]]), where his wife raised [[Simmental Cattle|Simmenthal]] beef cattle.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/21/nyregion/beef-on-the-hoof-in-new-york-state-let-the-world-know-ranchers-say.html|title=Beef on the Hoof in New York State? Let the World Know, Ranchers Say|last=Faber|first=Harold|date=August 21, 1990|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 20, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He maintained a summer home, "Ringing Point," at Seal Harbor on [[Mount Desert Island]] off the [[Maine]] coast.<ref name="VF2017"/> In May 2015, he donated one thousand acres of land in Seal Harbor to the [https://www.gardenpreserve.org/ Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve].<ref>[http://www.pressherald.com/2015/05/21/rockefeller-donates-thousands-of-acres-on-mdi/ "David Rockefeller to donate 1,000-plus acres on Mount Desert Island"] – ''Portland Press Herald'', May 21, 2015</ref>

He owned a large estate on the French island of [[Saint Barthélemy]]. Along with the [[Rothschild family]], was one of the earliest developers and tourists on the island in the 1950s. The home was very modern and was located in the Colombier district, known to many as the most beautiful section of the island. It has changed hands several times over the years, and is the single largest private parcel on the island, encompassing the entire [[Colombier, Saint Barthélemy|Baie de Colombier]]. Many years ago, the Rockefeller family donated the land in the initial creation of the Saint Barth "Zone Verte," or Green Zone, which is an area which cannot be developed.

The property includes a private dock in the port of [[Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy|Gustavia]], as there were no roads to the property and the only way to get there was by boat. David Rockefeller would moor his yacht at his private dock in Gustavia before transferring to the [[Colombier, Saint Barthélemy|Colombier]] estate in a smaller boat as the bay could not accommodate his yacht. The property was recently listed for over $100 million, but is not currently used as a residence. The main house has fallen into disrepair. It was sold for $136 million in 2023.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/st-barts-estate-sells-for-about-136-million-a-record-for-the-caribbean-island-fdb1762c? | title=WSJ News Exclusive &#124; St. Barts Estate Sells for About $136 Million, a Record for the Caribbean Island | newspaper=Wall Street Journal | date=April 18, 2023 | last1=Solomont | first1=E. B. }}</ref>

The Kykuit section of the Rockefeller family compound is the location of The Pocantico Conference Center of the [[Rockefeller Brothers Fund]]{{snd}} established by David and his four brothers in 1940{{snd}} which was created when the Fund leased the area from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rbf.org/grants/programs/poc.html|title=About The Pocantico Center|date=June 10, 2015}}</ref>

==Non-governmental leadership positions==
* [[Council on Foreign Relations]] – Honorary Chairman<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cfr.org/staff/b987|title=David Rockefeller - Council on Foreign Relations|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=March 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321084039/http://www.cfr.org/staff/b987|archive-date=March 21, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Americas Society]] – Founder and Honorary Chairman<ref name="Re-mapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making" />
* [[Trilateral Commission]] – Founder and Honorary North American Chairman<ref name="Re-mapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8LeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 |title=Re-mapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making |last1=Knight |first1=W. Andy |last2=Castro-Rea |first2=Julián  |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=9781317066767 |page=56}}</ref>
* [[Bilderberg Group|Bilderberg Meetings]] – Only member of the Member Advisory Group<ref name="williamengdahl">{{Cite news |url=http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO17Dec2016.php |title=Vatican, Bilderberg and a 'Migration' Crisis |last=Engdahl |first=F. William  |access-date=March 21, 2017 |work=www.williamengdahl.com |date=December 17, 2016}}</ref>
* [[New York Young Republican Club]] – Board Member<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://nyyrc.com/history/ |title = History}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (1998);<ref name="theguardian">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/20/david-rockefeller-dies-jp-morgan-chase-philanthropy |title=David Rockefeller, billionaire philanthropist, dies aged 101  |access-date=March 20, 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
* U.S. [[Legion of Merit]] (1945);<ref name="David Rockefeller">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/13/archives/david-rockefeller.html |title=David Rockefeller |access-date=March 20, 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=October 13, 1972}}</ref>
* French [[Legion of Honor]] (1945);<ref name="David Rockefeller" />
* U.S. Army Commendation Ribbon (1945);<ref name="David Rockefeller" />
* Commander of the Brazilian [[Order of the Southern Cross]] (1956);<ref>{{cite news |title = Mala Diplomática  | newspaper = [[Correio da Manhã (Brazil)|Correio da Manhã]]  | date = May 4, 1956  | url = http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/Hotpage/HotpageBN.aspx?bib=089842_06&pagfis=61465&url=http://memoria.bn.br/docreader#  | access-date = February 16, 2017}}</ref>
* Elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1959)<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=David+Rockefeller&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
* Charles Evans Hughes award NCCJ, (1974);<ref name="The Celebrity who's who">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzuwrsIil0UC |title=The Celebrity who's who |publisher=World Almanac |year=1986 |isbn=9780345339904 |page=304}}</ref>
* Elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1991)<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Rockefeller |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/david-rockefeller |access-date=December 6, 2022 |publisher=American Academy of Arts & Sciences}}</ref>
* [[George C. Marshall Foundation Award]] (1999);<ref name="prweb">{{Cite news |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8503852.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922120407/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8503852.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 22, 2011 |title=Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Receive Marshall Foundation Award |access-date=March 20, 2017 |publisher= PRWeb |date=May 31, 2011}}</ref>
* Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2001);<ref name="Leading Philanthropists Get Carnegie Medals">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/nyregion/leading-philanthropists-get-carnegie-medals.html |title=Leading Philanthropists Get Carnegie Medals |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |access-date=March 20, 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 11, 2001}}</ref>
* Synergos Bridging Leadership Award (2003);<ref name="synergos">{{Cite web |url=http://www.synergos.org/universityforanight/12/honoree.htm |title=David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award |website=www.synergos.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614174912/http://www.synergos.org/universityforanight/12/honoree.htm |archive-date=June 14, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* The Grand Croix of the [[Légion d'honneur]] (2000);<ref name="The International Who's Who 2004">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA1426 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2003 |isbn=9781857432176 |page=1426}}</ref>
* [[C. Walter Nichols#Legacy|C. Walter Nichols Award]], [[New York University]] (1970);<ref name="Who's Who in American Art">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EyBWe3yuQMwC |title=Who's Who in American Art |publisher=Marquis Whos Who |year=2006 |isbn=9780837963068 |page=1071}}</ref>
* World Brotherhood Award, [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] (1953);<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/1953/04/21/archive/lehman-rockefeller-receive-awards-from-jewish-seminary|title=Lehman, Rockefeller Receive Awards from Jewish Seminary|date=April 21, 1953|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
* Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects (1965);<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aiany.aiany.org/index.php?section=press-releases&prrid=330|title=AIA New York Chapter : Press Releases|publisher=American Institute of Architects|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
* Medal of Honor for City Planning, [[American Institute of Architects]] (1968);<ref name="The Celebrity who's who" />
* [[World Monuments Fund]]'s Hadrian Award (for preservation of art and architecture) (1994);<ref name="The International Who's Who 2004" />
* National Institute of Social Sciences Gold Medal Award (1967 – awarded to all 5 brothers);<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-03-20/billionaire-philanthropist-david-rockefeller-dies-at-age-101|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321083841/https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-03-20/billionaire-philanthropist-david-rockefeller-dies-at-age-101|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 21, 2017|title=David Rockefeller, Last of Generation in Family, Dies at 101|last=Hajela|first=Deepti|date=March 20, 2017|agency=Associated Press|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
* [[United States Council for International Business]] (USCIB) International Leadership Award (1983);<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uscib.org/recipients-of-the-international-leadership-award-ud-2241/|title=Recipients of the International Leadership Award {{!}} USCIB|date=January 1, 2015|publisher=United States Council for International Business|access-date=March 20, 2017}}</ref>
* The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award (1965).<ref name="Packing and Shipping">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymNLAAAAYAAJ |title=Packing and Shipping |year=1966 |volume=93 |page=103}}</ref>

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==Further reading==
* ''The Rockefeller File'', Gary Allen, '76 Press, Seal Beach California, 1976.
* ''The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family'', John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
* ''The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private'', John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992.
* ''The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908–1958'', Cary Reich, New York: Doubleday, 1996.
* ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family'', Bernice Kert, New York: Random House, 1993.
* ''Those Rockefeller Brothers: An Informal Biography of Five Extraordinary Young Men'', Joe Alex Morris, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953.
* ''The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty'', Peter Collier and David Horowitz, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976.
* ''The American Establishment'', Leonard Silk and Mark Silk, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1980.
* ''American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission'',  Stephen Gill, Boston: [[Cambridge University Press]], Reprint Edition, 1991.
* ''The Chase: The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., 1945–1985'', John Donald Wilson, Boston: [[Harvard Business School Press]], 1986.
* ''Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy'', Phillip L. Zweig, New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.
* ''Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend'', Joseph B. Treaster, New York: Wiley, 2004.
* ''Financier: The Biography of André Meyer; A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business'', Cary Reich, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983.
* ''Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996'', Peter Grose, New York: Council on Foreign Relations: 1996.
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* ''Cloak of Green: The Links between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business'', Elaine Dewar, New York: Lorimer, 1995.
* ''The Shah's Last Ride'', William Shawcross, New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1989.
* ''Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center'', Eric Darton, New York: Basic Books, 1999.
* {{Cite Power Broker}}
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170326151229/http://rockarch.org/bio/david.php The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC): Selected Biography]  
* [http://www.rbf.org/ Rockefeller Brothers Fund Official Web site]  
* {{C-SPAN|14986}}

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