Oral history interviewee with David Rockefeller, 2007.

Biographical Note

Honorary Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations.

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1915; education: B.A., Harvard, 1936, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1940; career: secretary to New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, 1940; Chase Bank, 1946-; board member at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1947; director of Council on Foreign Relations, 1949-; chairman of the CFR, 1970-1985; inclusion of women in CFR; International Basic Economy Corporation Research Institute; Fidel Castro; economic development of Latin America; Foreign Affairs; Hamilton Fish Armstrong; internationalism; Vietnam War; William P. Bundy; Henry Kissinger; Dartmouth Conference; The Trilateral Commission; Bilderberg Group; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Zhou Enlai; Mao Zedong; Iranian Hostage Crisis; Pentagon Papers; George S. Franklin; Anwar Al Sadat; Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Richard Nixon; Akio Morita; Peggy Margaret McGrath Rockefeller; Lyndon Johnson; James Carter; Nikita S. Khrushchev; Norman Cousins; John F. Kennedy; Georgi A. Arbatov; US relations with Cuba; US relations with Soviet Union; Cuban Missile Crisis; Alexi N. Kosygin.

Subjects

• Bankers--United States--Interviews.
• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Gavrilis, George, 1972- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rockefeller, David, 1915-2017--Interviews.

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