7 hearts of David Rockefeller, or How to live to 101
An old saying says that you can't buy health. It is not entirely true, because health can be well improved, however, for a lot of money. A good example of this is the billionaire David Rockefeller, who had to die several times, but thanks to expensive operations, he lived for 101 years.
David Rockefeller is a rich man in the third generation. His grandfather John Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company Oil Trust and went down in US history as the country's first billionaire. Despite the fact that David was born "with a golden spoon in his mouth", his biography is strikingly different from the life of modern majors. The Rockefellers achieved everything with their work and intelligence, so they never gave their children any concessions, forcing them to study, work and develop.
David Rockefeller was born on June 12, 1915. During his school years, the scion of the richest family in America was considered the best student in the class, and in 1936 he graduated with honors from Harvard with a degree in classical English literature and history. He did not stop there and almost immediately continued his studies in Europe – at the London School of Economics.
In 1940, at the age of only 25, David Rockefeller became a doctor of economics at the University of Chicago. In the same year, he marries Margaret McGraw – a girl from a good family, whose parents owned a law firm on Wall Street. Their marriage was happy and fruitful – the couple had six children.
In the same landmark year for him, 1940, David got his first job. Of course, his father could have given him a bank or an oil company, as is customary these days among oligarchs, but the Rockefellers are made of a different dough. The young Doctor of Economics started looking for a job himself, sending resumes and attending interviews. A guy with an excellent education, impeccable manners and a big name was hired as the secretary of the mayor of New York.
Further, David's career developed rapidly. Soon he was already serving as an assistant regional director in the Department of Defense, Health and Social Security. In 1942, the young Rockefeller took a break and went... to the front, and as a private. He served in France and in North Africa, doing intelligence. The end of the war found David with the rank of captain and as an assistant military attache in Paris.
In 1945, Rockefeller retired from the armed forces and enjoyed a peaceful life at home for a whole year. But in 1946, he started looking for a job again and got a job at Chase National, one of the major banks in New York, as deputy manager of the foreign clients department. In 1952, David was already a vice president of this bank and under his leadership, Chase National merged with the Manhattan Bank. This is how the new Chase Manhattan bank appeared.
Rockefeller was not only a financier, but also a public figure, as well as one of the largest philanthropists and philanthropists in the history of the United States. In 2008, he donated a record $ 100 million to Harvard. In 1964, David Rockefeller met with Nikita Khrushchev and discussed the prospects for the development of trade relations between the United States. The plans were grandiose, but just six months later Khrushchev was removed from office and they were not destined to come true.
In 1973, Rockefeller met with Alexey Kosygin and Chase Manhattan Bank became the first US financial institution to be allowed to conduct operations on the territory of the Union. After that, the billionaire repeatedly visited and met with many influential people, including Mikhail Gorbachev.
David Rockefeller's life could have ended in 1976. The financier was then in a serious car accident and he needed an emergency heart transplant. At that time, cardiac surgery was in its infancy and recovery after operations took months. But Rockefeller, a passionate fan of a healthy lifestyle, went for a run in two weeks.
After that, the billionaire underwent five more heart transplants, the last of which was done in 2015 at the age of 100. The last operation was performed in the residence of Rockefeller himself, where a real operating room with the best equipment was equipped. The transfer was not easy and lasted more than 6 hours.
David Rockefeller died on March 20, 2017 at the age of 102 in his bed in a mansion in Pocantico Hills, near New York. He survived his wife, who died in 1996 at the age of 80. For most people on the planet who need a heart transplant, surgery remains an unattainable dream, but when you have $ 3.3 billion, finding a donor and surgery is not a problem.
It turns out that the expression "you can't buy health for money" is not quite true? What do you think?
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