For the 25th Anniversary of the Trilateral Commision, HENRY KISSINGER wrote a tribute to DAVID ROCKEFELLER:
Henry Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates
In 1973, when I served as Secretary of State, David Rockefeller showed up in my office one day to tell me that he thought I needed a little help. I must confess, the thought was not self-evident to me at the moment. He proposed to form a group of Americans, Europeans, and Japanese to look ahead into the future. And I asked him, “Who’s going to run this for you, David?” He said, “Zbig Brzezinski.”
(The power behind the Obama throne) (I must ruin Zbig’s reputation here by saying usually he and I agreed. We managed to hide it very well.) I had worked with Nelson for many years; I had first known David at the
Council on Foreign Relations in the ’50s, and I knew that Rockefeller meant it. He picked something that is important; and they got the best man to do it for them. When I thought about it, there actually was a need.
We were in the middle of the energy crisis, totally unforeseen by us. The last study that had been made in our government said the oil price might reach $5 by 1980; it had reached $12 at that point. All the industrialized democracies needed to find some method of concerted action, a common approach.
And so, I encouraged David to go ahead, though I deserve no credit whatever for the consequences because David and Zbig and David’s Co-Chairmen created what we have today. Any society needs some people who bridge the gap between where they are and where they should be going—people with vision and courage—and the
Trilateral Commission fulfilled a crucial role in that respect....
David, he is now over 80, has done great things in his life, but he is a little bit naive. He believes that any good idea can be implemented. And, by God, you have to be a little bit innocent to do great things. Cynics don’t build cathedrals. David’s function in our society is to recognize great tasks, to overcome the obstacles, to help find and inspire the people to carry them out, and to do it with remarkable delicacy....
David, I respect you and admire you for what you have done with the Trilateral Commission. You and your family have represented what goes for an aristocracy in our country—a sense of obligation not only to make it materially possible, but to participate yourself in what you have made possible and to infuse it with the enthusiasm, the innocence, and the faith that I identify with you and, if I may say so, with your family. And so I would like to propose a toast that this be preserved to us for a long time.
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