David Rockefeller, the last remaining of John D. Rockefeller's six grandchildren who turned the Chase Manhattan bank into a worldwide franchise, has died. Condolences?
Time capsule: the moment the old tycoon finds out whose name his finger landed on in the phone book the first try in If I Had A Million.
Had no idea DR was still around. All I knew growing up was Nelson. Who was everywhere. Only thing associated with the name DR was Chase. No less a memory, he & The Bank (heh Nobody's Fool anyone?) synonymous.
I just visited Colonial Williamsburg and Historic Williamsburg for a week this past fall and it is beautifully restored and maintained. A national treasure of the early history of America. Colonial Williamsburg and many of it's historic structures would have been lost to time and urban sprawl development decades ago had the Rockefeller money not been there to save and continue to preserve and document what was left of it at a time when nobody else seemed to care if it all just rotted away. And for that, I am grateful.
.....it's historic structures would have been lost to time and urban sprawl development decades ago had the Rockefeller money not been there to save and continue to preserve and document what was left of it at a time when nobody else seemed to care if it all just rotted away. And for that, I am grateful.
yeah, Republicans used to lead the great environmental and preservationists programs.
I didn't see this myself, but a local Washington DC radio commentator stated this morning that when the CBS Evening News, with Scott Pelley, reported on David Rockefeller's death last night, they put up on screen a photo of Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies. I watched the broadcast on the internet today, but all that was available was what Pelley termed at the outset was the "West Coast broadcast." For that version of the broadcast, the error, if indeed there was one, was corrected.
