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really in age the senior. But he was a very, very shy, withdrawn, gentle person who, you know. If he had seen a fly on the floor he would walk around it. And his wife is still with us. As a matter of fact, she's on the Beaumont board, Blanchette Rockefeller. David was the-

Q:

But, in other words, Nelson, for all intents and purposes was somewhat of the patriarch when was alive, of that generation?

Heiskell:

Yeah, yeah. Patriarch is probably a little bit too big a word. The minor patriarch.[Laughs] Because, of course David was quite something in his own right.

And David too is a great builder. And he's also the great citizen, he exemplifies good citizenship without aspiring to political power. If there is anybody in this country who has devoted a lot of time to the good of the city, or the country, and a lot of other causes, it's David. And you can always get David to take on one more task. He's extraordinarily well organized. He has an automated file cabinet of the names of all the people he's ever met with a notation as to where he met them, when he met them, what they talked about, so and so on. So that he can--if he knows he's going to meet MR. X tomorrow at noon, he can have somebody punch up everything that there is to be known about that guy. I said to David, “Who you gonna sell this to. My God, this is invaluable.”

Q:

But that must mean that after every meeting he'd inputs the information.





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