John D. Rockefeller Jr., every mention
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- ▶ 35:38 David Rosenthal The three eldest were daughters, and then, I think Junior was the youngest, uh, one son.
- ▶ 35:43 David Rosenthal The daughters are like, eh, you know, like, uh, fine, you can do stuff, whatever, but Junior, you're getting all the money, and you're gonna be my successor.
- ▶ 36:46 David Rosenthal Brown had a lot of Baptist, um, influence and that's where junior Rockefeller's son went.
- ▶ 43:31 David Rosenthal Uh, and sure now is this great, great quote of Rockefeller talking to it, to his son, to junior.
- ▶ 43:36 David Rosenthal He says, John, we have money, but it will have value for mankind only if we can find able men with ideas, imagination, and courage to put it into productive use.
- ▶ 50:43 David Rosenthal Now the Rockefellers, like Junior gets very involved in this, and ultimately takes it over.
- ▶ 50:48 David Rosenthal Um, but Senior and Junior and Gates, the three of them together, along with the staff that they're building, uh, they're driving all of this.
- ▶ 1:20:31 Ben Gilbert I think, yeah, he's the one that, like, got Rockefeller and, and June and Rockefeller's on Rockefeller Jr. on the board of directors of U.S.
- ▶ 1:57:32 Ben Gilbert From 1915 to 1940, Junior financed, designed, and directed the construction of a network of carriage roads through Acadia National Park, and then refinanced the whole restoration of the park in 1947.
- ▶ 1:57:46 Ben Gilbert So it's this really interesting thing where Junior, whereas Senior kind of
- ▶ 1:58:19 Ben Gilbert Junior was a, a naturalist.
- ▶ 1:58:27 Ben Gilbert Junior was a huge part of the donation to restore and recreate Colonial Williamsburg.
- ▶ 1:58:46 Ben Gilbert But there was no nucleus of federally owned land to actually develop it, so Junior contributed five million dollars in 1926 dollars.
- ▶ 1:59:05 David Rosenthal Junior led the round the government participated in, basically.
- ▶ 1:59:09 Ben Gilbert Then you've got Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who I believe, is she Junior's wife?
- ▶ 1:59:14 David Rosenthal Junior's wife.
- ▶ 1:59:34 David Rosenthal Not the, I think they tore down the buildings, and the MoMA is a new building there, but that land was when the family first moved from Cleveland to New York, they, they built two, they, they bought two mansions next door to each other,…
- ▶ 1:59:56 Ben Gilbert Well, and then nearby there, there's obviously Rockefeller Center, which was a junior project.
- ▶ 2:00:07 David Rosenthal It was Junior's, like, main business project, and everybody thought he was crazy, like, who would want to be headquartered?
- ▶ 2:01:17 Ben Gilbert In 1945, Junior donated eight and a half million dollars, which I think is something on the order of a hundred million today, to just go buy the land for the UN, like this is, you know, right after World War II, that would become the, the,…
- ▶ 2:01:38 Ben Gilbert He continues, the area that is now Grand Teton National Park was privately owned until the 19 thirties when Junior started buying up the land that would eventually, uh, he would donate to become much of the park, especially the actual…
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- ▶ 1:49:06 David Rosenthal And, uh, when Junior decided to get in and start building, developing and building Rockefeller Center, they lease it from Columbia, and then they ultimately buy it.
- ▶ 1:55:09 David Rosenthal And, uh, in 1896 Rockefeller is like, well,