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Memoirs (Rockefeller, David) Gebundene Ausgabe – 1. November 2002
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He worked briefly for New York City's flamboyant mayor Fiorello La Guardia before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942. His service as an intelligence officer in North Africa and France brought him into contact with many of the individuals who would soon dominate European politics and gave him a unique perspective on the events and personalities that eventuated in the "twilight struggle" of the Cold War.
Rockefeller joined the Chase bank in 1946 as an assistant manager in the Foreign Department and rose through the ranks to become chairman of the board and chief executive officer. During that time, he struggled constantly to modernize and internationalize the bank's operations, often against a conservative and risk-averse corporate culture.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe517 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberB&T
- Erscheinungstermin1. November 2002
- Abmessungen16.61 x 4.85 x 24.18 cm
- ISBN-100679405887
- ISBN-13978-0679405887
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“Long before globalization became a household word, David Rockefeller realized the importance of cultivating strong, trusting relationships with countries and their leaders around the world. We are privileged to be the beneficiaries of his lifelong commitment to world peace, and to have his reflections on these experiences in this superb memoir.”—Nelson Mandela
“In these memoirs, David Rockefeller provides an account of his life that is candid, incisive, and moving. Whether writing about his remarkable family, his distinguished career, or his important role in world affairs, he offers a unique and invaluable perspective on our times.”
—Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations
“David Rockefeller is one of the most diversely interesting men of our time. It has been my pleasure to know him and his work, and this book, the product of his unique life, is both attractive and thoroughly engaging. It will attract everyone for the knowledge and pleasure it accords.”—Professor John Kenneth Galbraith
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He worked briefly for New York City’s flamboyant mayor Fiorello La Guardia before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942. His service as an intelligence officer in North Africa and France brought him into contact with many of the individuals who would soon dominate European politics and gave him a unique perspective on the events and personalities that eventuated in the “twilight struggle” of the Cold War.
Rockefeller joined the Chase bank in 1946 as an assistant manager in the Foreign Department and rose through the ranks to become chairman of the board and chief executive officer. During that time, he struggled constantly to modernize and internationalize the bank’s operations, often against a conservative and risk-averse corporate culture.
During his eighty-seven years, David Rockefeller has:
• come to know world leaders ranging from Zhou Enlai to Mikhail Gorbachev, Anwar Sadat to Ariel Sharon, General Augusto Pinochet to Saddam Hussein
•worked with every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower, at times serving as an unofficial emissary on high-level missions
•traveled to more than one hundred countries, logging approximately five million miles while circling the globe dozens of times
Throughout his life David Rockefeller has been passionately interested in the welfare of the world around him, particularly in the city of New York. His involvement with Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller University, the redevelopment of the Wall Street area and the building of the World Trade Center, and many other projects is revealed in these memoirs.
It’s almost inconceivable that one man’s life could encompass so many things. But David Rockefeller’s life has, and he tells the world all about it in this candid and highly informative book. This is the first time a Rockefeller has ever told his own story.
As a financier, a philanthropist, and the ultimate ambassador without portfolio, David Rockefeller, scion of one of history’s most fabled families, has experienced a life that is unique in every aspect. This, in his own words, is the story of that remarkable life.
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Leseprobe. Abdruck erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Grandfather
There is a picture of all the men in the family waiting at the Tarrytown station for the train carrying Grandfather's casket from his winter home in Ormond Beach, Florida. He died quietly in his bed on May 23, 1937, at the age of ninety-seven. While the official cause of death was sclerotic myocarditis, it would be simpler to say he died of old age. I had known him as "Grandfather," not the "robber baron" or great philanthropist of the history books. He had been a constant presence in my childhood: benign, indulgent, revered by my father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and by the family as a whole.
Looking at that picture today, I find it remarkable how well it captured our relationships with one another, where we were in life, and, perhaps, where we would all be going.
John, characteristically, stands on the periphery. Thirty-one years old, he is the oldest son, inheritor of the dynastic name. After he graduated from Princeton, Father put him on the boards of many family institutions, among them the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and Colonial Williamsburg, grooming him to be the family leader, but he is shy and uncertain of his abilities.
Nelson, also characteristically, has managed to situate himself at the exact center of the picture and stares authoritatively at the camera. At twenty-nine he will soon become president of Rockefeller Center.
Laurance, twenty-seven, the philosopher and businessman, gazes into the middle distance. He was emerging as a leading investor in the aviation industry and, with Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I Flying Ace, would soon buy a large stake in Eastern Airlines.
Winthrop is the handsomest. Somehow Mother's Aldrich features-which one might describe as having a lot of "character"-combined with the Rockefeller genes to produce almost movie-star good looks. Win is the most troubled of us and never quite fitted in. Now twenty-five, he is working as a "roughneck" in the Texas oil fields.
I am the youngest, twenty-one years old, and look very wet behind the ears. I have just completed my first year of graduate work in economics at Harvard and will leave that summer to continue my studies at the London School of Economics.
Father, beginning to show his sixty-three years, presides over us all, completely forthright, a friendly, kind face. Perhaps a little distant.
We brought Grandfather back to the mansion that he and Father had built twenty-five years earlier on the family estate at Pocantico Hills. Called Kykuit, the Dutch word for "lookout," its hilltop site commands a magnificent view of the Hudson River. The next day, with only immediate family and a few close friends present, we held a service for him. I remember it was a beautiful spring day, the French doors open to the terrace, and the Hudson River a glistening blue below us. His favorite organist, Dr. Archer Gibson, played the large pipe organ in the main hall, on which we used to pretend to perform when we were children. Harry Emerson Fosdick, senior minister of Riverside Church, which was built by Father, gave the eulogy.
After the service, as everyone milled about, Mr. Yordi, Grandfather's valet, gestured to me. Yordi, a dapper Swiss fellow, had been Grandfather's valet and constant companion for thirty years. I knew him well, but he had always been reserved in my presence. I went over to him, and he pulled me aside, into a deserted hallway. "You know, Mr. David," he began (from as early as I can remember, the staff always addressed us in that way, "Mr. Rockefeller" being too confusing with so many of us with that name, and first names would have been too familiar), "of all you brothers, your grandfather always thought you were the most like him." I must have looked very surprised. It was the last thing I expected him to say. "Yes," he said, "you were very much his favorite." I thanked him somewhat awkwardly, but he just waved his hand and said, "No, no, I just thought you should know." I didn't really know what to make of it. I thought it would have been Nelson, but I couldn't pretend I wasn't pleased.
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- Herausgeber : B&T (1. November 2002)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Gebundene Ausgabe : 517 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 0679405887
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679405887
- Abmessungen : 16.61 x 4.85 x 24.18 cm
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Gebundene Ausgabe von 2002:
Kapitel "Proud Internationalist"
Seite 406:
"The United States cannot escape from its global responsibilities. Today's world cries out for leadership, and our nation must provide it. In the twenty-first century there can be no place for isolationists: we must all be internationalists."
Über "The Council On Foreign Relations" auf Seite 407/408
What, then, gives the Council its strength and reputation? There are several interrelated factors, beginning whit the qualitiy and diverdity of it's membership, New York City's businessmen, bankers, and lawyers once dominated the proceedings, but during the past thirty years the membership has been broadened to include men and women from the communications industry, colleges and universities, and the not for profit world.
Auf deutsch: Das Rockefeller Imperium hat sich wie ein Krebsgeschwür nicht nur durch Banken und wichtige Industrien gefressen, sondern auch durch die großen Medien, Hochschulen, Universitäten und die Hilfsorganisationen.
Seite 407:
"In short, the quality of its membership, ..... - rather than the secret pipeline into the White House and the State Department - are the reasons that the Council of Foreign Relations continues to influence the formulation of American foreign policy."
Übersetzt: Es wird Einfluß auf die amerikanische Außenpolitik genommen.
Laut unseren Medien eine ganz böse Verschwörungstheorie. Tja, das Buch erschien vor 12 Jahren und kostet ein paar Euro. Ist halt zu viel Recherche für einen echten Journalisten. Doch wahrscheinlich stimmt dies Zitat von 1991, hier ein Auszug von der Ausgabe des Hilaire duBerrier Report (also reported elsewhere in the French press):
[Rockefeller] told his listeners: 'We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years....It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years....The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers ... is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in the past centuries."
Kurz: unsere Presstituieren der großen Medien verkauften sich an die Elite und schwiegen deshalb über die Entwicklung. Berichteten kleinere Nachrichtenanstalten darüber, hieß es, sie ahnen es bereits „Verschwörungstheorie!“
Seite 416:
I spoke about this in March 1972 before Chase Investment forums in Montreal, London, Brussels, and Paris, calling for an "international commission ..... "such vital fields as international trade and investments; environment problems; control of crime and drugs: population control;..."
Rockefeller forderte eine internationale Kommission die sich auch um die Bevölkerungskontrolle kümmert. Wenn man dann noch die Aussagen gewisser Leute zur "Bevölkerungsexplosion" und den Guides Stones in Georgia dazu nimmt, stellt sich die Frage welche Menschen denn genau zu viel sind. Wer entscheidet dass? Ach, so die Eliten.
Auf 416 und 417 beschreibt er seine Freundschaft zu Brzezinski, der später vielen US-Präsidenten als "Berater" diente und heute noch dient. Einer der direkten Verbindungen in die hohe Politik.
Seite 419:
I have kept a record of most people I have met since the 1940s. Their names are stored in an electronically operated Rolodex that contains upward of one hundred thausend entries. Each card records my first contact and all subsequent meetings, and I can quickly review the nature of my past associations before seeing someone again. In a surprising number of countries – Mexico and Brasil, for instance – I have met every head of the state since World War II, several of them many times.
Grob übersetzt: Seit 1940 speichert er alle Kontakte und hat nun über 100.000 Einträge. In vielen Ländern traf er die sämtliche Staatschefs seit dem 2. Weltkrieg.
Na, wenn dass kein Netzwerk ist.
Zuletzt das bekannteste Zitat auf Seite 405:
"Manche glauben gar, wir seien Teil einer geheimen Kabale, die entgegen die besten Interessen der USA arbeitet, charakterisieren mich und meine Familie als "Internationalisten" und Verschwörer, die gemeinsam mit anderen weltweit eine integrierte globale politische und wirtschaftliche Struktur schaffen - die einheitliche Welt, wenn sie so wollen. Wenn das die Anklage ist, dann bin ich schuldig, und ich bin stolz darauf."