David Rockefeller Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
He could be the oldest surviving member of the Rockefeller family and family patriarch since July 2004. Rockefeller is also the sole living child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only living grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
In a personal capacity Rockefeller has interfaced with each United States president since Eisenhower and has even at times served as an unofficial emissary on high level diplomatic missions. President Jimmy Carter offered him the places of United States Secretary of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Chairman but he declined both instead favoring an exclusive function. On account of his private, political, and professional links and his family name, Rockefeller continues to be in a position to act as connection to various interests all over the world, including Saddam Hussein and Communist leaders like Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. In Henry Kissinger, Rockefeller found a political operative having an international and national outlook similar to his. They initially met in 1954, when Kissinger was named a manager of a seminal Council on Foreign Relations study group on nuclear weapons, of which David was a member. The relationship grown to the stage that Kissinger was encouraged to take a seat on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Though a lifelong Republican and party subscriber, like his dad in the dynastic line, he’s a dedicated person in the average “Rockefeller Republicans” that arose from the political aspirations and public policy position of his brother Nelson. In 2006 he teamed up with former Goldman Sachs executives among other people to form a fundraising group located in Washington, Republicans Who Care, that supported reasonable Republican nominees over more ideological rivals.