“Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.”

— David Rockefeller

On courting his wife, as quoted in a review of his Memoirs — "Born to Be Mild" by David Brooks in The New York Times (20 October 2002) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E4D6163AF933A15753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

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American banker and philanthropist 1915–2017

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