David Rockefeller’s 200,000 of Rolodex cards

Bill Clinton got about 10,000 index card, calling for his president election.

Reagan Library collected his cards with tiny handwriting.
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David Rockefeller’s Rolodex Is Astonishing. Here’s a First Peek.

Bank executive met with nearly every world leader for 50 years, filled out some 200,000 note cards

By

Joann S. Lublin              

 

POCANTICO HILLS, N. Y.—Some might say David Rockefeller, a scion of America’s greatest fortune and the veteran chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank, was a dedicated networker long before the age of Facebook.

That would grossly understate his horizons. Mr. Rockefeller recorded contact information along with every meeting he had with about 100,000 people world-wide on white 3-by-5-inch index cards. He amassed about 200,000 of the cards, which filled a custom-built Rolodex machine. He kept the 5-foot high electronic device...

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