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this is a Christmas card that was in evidence and it's supposedly signed by Peggy and David Rockefeller M did you
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forge that you make that up why don't you ask them whether it's forged I mean they would know they sent that to me at
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some point ask David whether it's forged he's still alive he's 98 years old and he will probably ask answer your
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question whether it's forged he had studied the Rockefeller family he knew the Rockefeller family tree this is a
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person who's very intelligent who would spend all of his time in live liaries Across America studying learning America
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you know he would always say that uh you know he's a poor relation of the Rockefellers he said he had a crazy
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sister who was locked up in an insane asylum uh that his parents were dead and that he'd been raised by nannies and
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then you know and tutors and so he sort of that sort of gave him a cover story for not knowing certain things about
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American culture I've been so insulated like he told me never tasted a hamburger
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or cocacola never eaten in a restaurant uh I I go for simple things as you can see I um like everything extremely well
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worn and well stitched so uh I'm more interested in keeping things in maintaining things that are old that's
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more of an interest to me than buying something new every year I think a lot of people you know have an image of what
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a Rockefeller would be and he fit that image and people were attracted to that you know never carrying money never
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wanting to eat in a public restaurant or stay in a public Hotel only private clubs would do you know having one
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special cookie The Nantucket that he would only eat he would only eat a special sandwich with the with a crust
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cut off because this is what his you know his family had taught him to do belonging to all of these exclusive
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clubs across the Eastern Seaboard where he took his meals and where he would sleep
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I was at his house up in Cornish New Hampshire and uh I mentioned that I had a tax problem the IRS was going to take
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a couple thousand dollars out of my account for uh late taxes and he said oh well is it it's federal taxes and I said
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yeah he said oh well he pulled a piece of paper out of his jacket and wrote down a number he said this is George
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Bush's phone number uh it's not the White House switchboard this is his private line you call him and he'll
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solve it for you I mean it was so bold so Brazen and so brilliant but I never checked on it you
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know I wasn't going to dial the Pres hey President Bush just checking Clark Rockefeller said I should call you know
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so he kind of knew nobody would call his bluff on well people who called his bluff
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probably didn't last in his life you know