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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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The Formation of the Trilateral Commission

January 1, 2012

On July 23, 1972, a group of influential citizens from the U.S., Europe and Japan met at the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, half an hour's drive north of New York City. They were welcomed by David Rockefeller, grandson of the oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. David Rockefeller had summoned the group to express his concern that the advanced industrialized states were drifting "aimlessly into a situation in which they may inflict harm upon each other and other states." According to David Rockefeller, the "impact of growing economic competitiveness and the accelerating pace of technological and social change on policy-making in major industrialized states" had made it imperative that governments transcended the "issues of the moment" and devoted themselves to the strategic problems of the future. "Now," he declared, "is a propitious time for persons from the private sector to make a valuable contribution to public policy."

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