The Rockefellers
Narrator: : October 9th, 1901: The steam yacht Wild Duck sailed out of Providence, Rhode Island.
旁白: 1901 年 10 月 9 日:蒸汽游艇野鸭号从罗德岛州普罗维登斯驶出。
On board was one of the richest men in America, John D.
船上有美国最富有的人之一约翰·D·
Rockefeller, and his family.
洛克菲勒和他的家人。
The boat was bound for an estate at Warwick Neck, on the west shore of Narragansett Bay.
这艘船的目的地是纳拉甘西特湾西岸沃里克颈的一处庄园。
Soon the groomed lawns would welcome 500 guests, the lions of the gilded age.
很快,修剪整齐的草坪就会迎来 500 名客人,他们是镀金时代的狮子。
Outside the gates, reporters gathered -- for the wedding of Rockefeller's only son, John Jr., and Abby Aldrich, daughter of a powerful Rhode Island senator.
大门外,记者们聚集在一起,参加洛克菲勒唯一的儿子小约翰和罗德岛州一位有权势的参议员的女儿艾比·奥尔德里奇的婚礼。
Pinkerton guards had been deployed to protect the bejeweled guests and glittering wedding presents.
平克顿的警卫已被部署来保护佩戴珠宝的客人和闪闪发光的结婚礼物。
They had another, more dangerous assignment.
他们还有另一项更危险的任务。
John D.
约翰·D.
Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, was the most hated man in America -- described as monstrous, evil, cruel.
标准石油公司的创始人洛克菲勒是美国最令人憎恨的人——被描述为可怕、邪恶、残忍。
Rockefeller was hounded by reporters -- stalked by strangers asking for money.
洛克菲勒被记者围追堵截,被陌生人跟踪索要钱财。
He had taken to keeping a revolver by his bed.
他开始在床边放一把左轮手枪。
There had been kidnap threats against his family -- and letters warning of homemade bombs destined for the Rockefellers' house.
他的家人曾受到绑架威胁,并收到警告信,称自制炸弹将运往洛克菲勒家族的宅邸。
This was a family under siege.
这是一个被围困的家庭。
It would fall to the new bride -- and to the dutiful, obedient son, already oppressed by the burdens of growing up a Rockefeller -- to find a way forward for the family.
为这个家庭寻找前进的道路将落在新新娘的肩上,还有那个尽职尽责、听话的儿子身上,他已经被洛克菲勒家族的成长负担所压垮了。
In the early 19th century, they called this part of upstate New York the "Burned Over District." Burned not by fire, but by fire and brimstone, by the blaze of Christian revivalism.
19 世纪初,他们将纽约州北部的这个地区称为“烧毁区”。不是被火烧毁,而是被火焰和硫磺烧毁,被基督教复兴主义的火焰烧毁。
Preachers urged a life of hard work, prayer, and good deeds, to build the Kingdom of God on Earth.
传教士敦促人们努力工作、祈祷和行善,在地球上建立上帝的王国。
It was in the midst of this evangelical fervor that John Davison Rockefeller was born in 1839 -- the second of five children.
1839 年,约翰·戴维森·洛克菲勒 (John Davison Rockefeller) 在福音派的狂热中出生,他在五个孩子中排行老二。
His mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was deeply religious, stern, disciplined.
他的母亲伊丽莎·戴维森·洛克菲勒 (Eliza Davison Rockefeller) 笃信宗教、严厉、自律。
Even as a young woman, she had not been given to smiles and laughter.
即使作为一个年轻女子,她也没有笑容和笑声。
Ron Chernow, biographer: : But she had this fatal moment of weakness one day when William Avery Rockefeller appeared on her doorstep peddling cheap trinkets, and he had a little slate that was tied to his buttonhole, and on the slate he had chalked, "I am deaf and dumb." This was part of his con man routine.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺:但有一天,当威廉·艾弗里·洛克菲勒出现在她家门口兜售廉价小玩意时,她陷入了致命的虚弱时刻,他的扣眼上系着一块小石板,他在石板上用粉笔写下:“我又聋又哑。”这是他的骗子例行公事的一部分。
And Eliza, quite out of character, was immediately smitten by this charming rascal, and in fact proclaimed in his presence, "I'd marry him if he weren't deaf and dumb."
与性格完全不同的伊丽莎立即被这个迷人的流氓迷住了,事实上,她当着他的面宣称:“如果他不是又聋又哑,我就会嫁给他。”
Albert Berger, Historian: : He's a scoundrel.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰::他是个恶棍。
Apparently an enchanting scoundrel in person, and he certainly enchanted Eliza, and apparently he enchanted a good many other women, too, which is part of being a scoundrel.
显然他本人是一个迷人的恶棍,他当然迷住了伊丽莎,显然他也迷惑了很多其他女人,这是恶棍的一部分。
Narrator: : Unlike his devout wife, William Avery Rockefeller kept away from the church.
旁白::与他虔诚的妻子不同,威廉·艾弗里·洛克菲勒远离教堂。
He was a traveling man, a salesman who sold quack cures from a wagon out on the western frontier.
他是一个旅行家,是一名推销员,在西部边境上用马车出售江湖疗法。
People whispered about his footloose life.
人们窃窃私语着他自由自在的生活。
They called him "Devil Bill."
他们称他为“魔鬼比尔”。
Albert Berger, Historian: : He would come and go as he pleased, never with advance warning.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰(Albert Berger)::他可以随心所欲地来去,从不事先发出警告。
He'd be away for months -- there'd be credit at the store.
他会离开几个月——商店里会有赊账。
One winter he ran up a bill in one store of $1,000, and in the 19th century that's an enormous sum of money.
有一年冬天,他在一家商店结账了 1,000 美元,这在 19 世纪是一笔巨款。
But then he would come back, most frequently at night so people would never know where he came from, and he would tell stories of his exploits that were never quite complete enough to pin him down as to what he had done or where he had done it.
但随后他会回来,通常是在晚上,这样人们永远不会知道他来自哪里,他会讲述他的功绩故事,但这些故事永远不够完整,无法确定他做了什么或在哪里做了。
Narrator: : Devil Bill's laughter and music flooded the house.
旁白::魔鬼比尔的笑声和音乐充满了房子。
He would be fingering wads of cash, wearing fancy new clothes.
他会穿着花哨的新衣服,手里拿着大把的现金。
He once appeared with a patchwork tablecloth made out of bank notes.
有一次,他带着一张用钞票拼凑而成的桌布出现。
"I had a peculiar training in my home," John D.
“我在家里接受了特殊的训练,”约翰·D·
observed of his childhood.
观察他的童年。
" It seemed to be a business training from the beginning."
“这从一开始就像是一场业务培训。”
Albert Berger, Historian: : Bill Rockefeller admitted to one of his neighbors, "I do business deals with my sons and I always try to cheat them to make them sharp." Now, John D.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰:比尔·洛克菲勒向他的一位邻居承认,“我和我的儿子们做生意,我总是试图欺骗他们,让他们变得敏锐。”现在,约翰·D.
did not always like those lessons in business, but he absorbed them.
他并不总是喜欢这些商业教训,但他吸收了它们。
Narrator: : His father lent him money -- always at the prevailing interest rate -- then deliberately called in the loans without warning to make sure his son had kept reserves.
旁白:他的父亲借给他钱——总是按照现行利率——然后故意在没有警告的情况下收回贷款,以确保他的儿子保留了储备金。
With Devil Bill, John D.
与魔鬼比尔、约翰·D.
discovered the excitement of taking a big risk, the allure of cold cash.
发现了冒大风险的兴奋感和现金的诱惑。
Eliza taught him the sober habits of her Christian faith -- thrift, hard work, and perfect self control.
伊丽莎教给他基督教信仰中的清醒习惯——节俭、努力工作和完美的自我控制。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : He was like a little adult.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家::他就像一个小成年人。
When he went to school, students talked about him being Mr. Serious.
当他上学时,学生们都说他是严肃先生。
And although he had a wonderful sense of humor that was very sly, for the most part he behaved very rigidly even, and liked things orderly, the way his mother did.
尽管他有一种非常狡猾的幽默感,但在大多数情况下,他的行为甚至非常严格,喜欢一切井然有序,就像他母亲那样。
Things occurred according to schedules.
事情按照计划进行。
And there was a reward for good behavior, and there was a sacrifice for bad behavior.
好的行为有奖励,坏的行为有牺牲。
Narrator: : In 1849, the world fell apart for the Rockefeller family.
旁白: 1849 年,洛克菲勒家族的世界分崩离析。
Bill was accused of the rape of a maid he had hired to work in the household.
比尔被指控强奸了他雇用的一名女佣。
Rather than confront the charges, he fled, leaving the family alone to face the scandal.
他没有面对指控,而是逃跑了,留下家人独自面对丑闻。
It was a moment of intense shame for 10 year-old John.
对于 10 岁的约翰来说,这是一个极度羞耻的时刻。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : And I think that it was in the face of the malicious tongues of village gossips that John D.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)::我认为,约翰·D·切尔诺 (John D.
Rockefeller developed this very wary, secretive, self-reliant nature, because people were always whispering about his father, and John D.
洛克菲勒养成了这种非常谨慎、神秘、自力更生的性格,因为人们总是窃窃私语地谈论他的父亲和约翰·D·洛克菲勒。
himself would not have known the truth of his father, but I think that he felt that he would face down the village gossips by developing this very hard and stoic air.
他自己不会知道他父亲的真相,但我认为他觉得通过表现出这种非常强硬和坚忍的态度,他可以面对村里的流言蜚语。
Narrator: : Eliza and her five children found refuge in the local Baptist church.
旁白::伊丽莎和她的五个孩子在当地的浸信会教堂找到了避难所。
Each Sunday, when the collection plate was passed around, she urged young John to contribute his few pennies.
每个周日,当募捐盘被分发时,她都会敦促年轻的约翰捐出他的几分钱。
He came to associate the church with charity.
他开始将教会与慈善事业联系起来。
A Baptist preacher once encouraged him to make as much money as he could -- and then give away as much as he could.
一位浸信会传教士曾经鼓励他尽可能多地赚钱,然后尽可能多地捐出。
It was at this moment, Rockefeller later recalled, "that the financial plan ...
洛克菲勒后来回忆道,正是在这个时刻,“财务计划......
of my life was formed." But the sound of coins in the collection plate still had the distant ring of Devil Bill.
我的人生已经形成了。”但收藏盘里的硬币声音,依然带着遥远的魔鬼比尔的响声。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者:约翰·D.
came to associate money with those rare times that Father came home, flush with cash from the road, and that the Rockefellers briefly functioned as a real family.
人们把金钱与父亲带着路上带来的现金回家的罕见时刻以及洛克菲勒家族短暂地作为一个真正的家庭联系在一起。
And I think the fact that John D.
我认为事实上 John D.
grew up in this perpetually insecure situation, wondering when Father would come home, wondering if they would pay off the credit at the general store, created a person who had an abnormal need, not only for a large amount of money, but for constant security, and somebody who disliked surprises, somebody who wanted to master chance and outwit fate.
在这种永远没有安全感的环境中长大,不知道父亲什么时候回家,不知道他们是否能还清杂货店的贷款,造就了一个有异常需要的人,不仅需要大量的钱,而且需要持续的安全感,一个不喜欢惊喜的人,一个想要掌握机会并智取命运的人。
Narrator: : Fate delivered John D.
旁白::命运拯救了约翰·D.
one more bitter surprise.
又一个令人痛苦的惊喜。
He soon discovered that his father had taken a second wife -- under an assumed name.
他很快发现他的父亲娶了第二任妻子——用的是化名。
Shielding his mother from the shame, John kept the bigamy a secret.
为了保护母亲免受羞辱,约翰保守了重婚罪的秘密。
To carry on his double life, Bill moved the family to Cleveland.
为了继续他的双重生活,比尔举家搬到了克利夫兰。
Then, he disappeared again, leaving them alone in the new city.
然后,他又消失了,只剩下他们一人在新的城市里。
Albert Berger, Historian: : And this turned relations between John D.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger)::这改变了约翰·D·伯杰 (John D.
and his father stone cold.
而他的父亲则冷若冰霜。
I think in the long run, it had the effect of leading John D.
我认为从长远来看,它具有领导约翰·D·肯尼迪的效果。
to decide to make a life for himself that was as different from his father's as he could manage, without quite abandoning things that he still thought of value in what his father had taught him, like business.
决定尽可能地为自己创造一种与父亲不同的生活,同时又不完全放弃他仍然认为父亲教给他的东西有价值的东西,比如商业。
Narrator: : John had hoped to go to college.
旁白::约翰曾希望上大学。
Now, he dropped out of high school and started looking for work -- to help support the family.
现在,他从高中退学并开始寻找工作——以帮助养家糊口。
"I did not go to any small establishments," he recalled "...
“我没有去任何小场所,”他回忆道,“......
I was after something big." He found a job as an assistant bookkeeper but threw himself into it with missionary intensity.
我在追求一些大事。”他找到了一份助理簿记员的工作,但以传教士般的热情投入其中。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : As soon as he starts working, there is nothing lighthearted or carefree about this young, 16-year-old boy.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)::这个 16 岁的年轻男孩一开始工作,就没有任何轻松或无忧无虑的感觉。
He closely reviews every bill and jumps on errors of even a few pennies in the bill.
他仔细审查每一张账单,即使账单上有几分钱的错误,他也会跳出来。
He is amazed at the laxity and inefficiency of these much older bosses who are much more experienced.
他对这些年长得多但经验丰富的老板的松懈和低效感到惊讶。
And I think that was the thing that distinguished Rockefeller from an early age.
我认为这就是洛克菲勒从小就与众不同的地方。
Not so much brilliant, flashing intelligence, but this thorough, plodding, systematic way that he did things.
与其说他有才华横溢、闪光的智慧,不如说他做事的方式彻底、缓慢、系统。
Narrator: : John began to keep a ledger, noting every expenditure, large and small.
旁白:约翰开始记账,记下每笔大大小小的支出。
For him, numbers were sacred.
对他来说,数字是神圣的。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : John D.'s ledger took on a special role of being a kind of conscience, I would say.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家::我想说,约翰·D.的账本扮演了一种特殊的角色,它是一种良心。
He recorded his contributions to various causes -- to church, every penny that he gave to a poor little girl he saw on the street, to abolitionist causes.
他记录了他对各种事业的贡献——对教堂、他给他在街上看到的一个可怜的小女孩的每一分钱、对废奴主义事业的贡献。
And he would use this throughout his life as a way of evaluating himself.
他一生都会用这个来评价自己。
Narrator: : Line upon line, as his earnings grew, his ambition quickened.
旁白::随着收入的增长,他的野心也随之增长。
He borrowed $1,000 from Devil Bill -- with interest -- and plunged into the risky business of commodity trading -- buying and selling meat and grain.
他从魔鬼比尔那里借了 1,000 美元(连利息),然后投身于高风险的商品交易业务——买卖肉类和谷物。
He was just 18.
他当时才 18 岁。
Only a year later, the "something big" he was looking for surfaced -- in the back woods of Pennsylvania.
仅仅一年后,他所寻找的“大东西”就在宾夕法尼亚州的后树林中浮现了出来。
Oil -- to grease the wheels of America's infant industries.
石油——为美国新兴工业的发展提供润滑。
Oil to fuel an explosion of growth.
石油推动爆炸式增长。
News of the discovery unleashed pandemonium as thousands of speculators descended upon the region.
这一发现的消息引发了混乱,成千上万的投机者涌入该地区。
Overnight, wildcatters stripped away whole forests and put up thousands of rickety derricks -- hoping to strike "black gold."
一夜之间,野猫们砍伐了整片森林,搭建了数千个摇摇欲坠的井架——希望能开采到“黑金”。
As the oil gushed skyward, fantastic stories appeared of instant fortunes.
随着石油喷涌而出,瞬间发财的奇幻故事也随之出现。
Among the Cleveland businessmen lured to the region was John D.
约翰·D·肯尼迪 (John D.
Rockefeller.
洛克菲勒。
He was no wildcatter.
他并不是一个野心勃勃的人。
He saw that drilling for oil was a very risky business.
他看到石油钻探是一项风险很大的生意。
Refining, not drilling, he decided, was where the steady money was to be made.
他认为,炼油而不是钻探才是稳定赚钱的地方。
Soon, a new rail line linked Cleveland with the oil region.
很快,一条新铁路线将克利夫兰与石油区连接起来。
Rockefeller built his refinery right beside it.
洛克菲勒在它旁边建造了他的炼油厂。
It was one of the first in the city to produce kerosene, the new fuel for lamps that was cheap and clean.
它是该市最早生产煤油的工厂之一,煤油是一种廉价且清洁的新型灯用燃料。
"The poor man's light," as John D.
“穷人的光”,约翰·D.
called it, would bring a brilliant glow into American homes.
称之为,将为美国家庭带来灿烂的光芒。
The soaring demand for it, he was convinced, would make him rich.
他坚信,对它的不断飙升的需求将使他变得富有。
"I shall never forget how hungry I was in those days," he later wrote.
“我永远不会忘记那些日子我是多么饥饿,”他后来写道。
"I ran up and down the tops of freight cars ...
“我在货车顶部跑来跑去......
I hurried up the boys." Obsessed with the business of oil, he mastered every detail, developed new products to sell.
我赶紧催促孩子们。”他痴迷于石油生意,掌握每一个细节,开发新产品进行销售。
By age 25, his refinery was one of the largest in the world.
25 岁时,他的炼油厂已成为世界上最大的炼油厂之一。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : He really mortgaged his life, up to the hilt.
传记作者彼得·科利尔::他确实抵押了自己的生命,完全抵押了。
He borrowed tens of thousands of dollars, which is the equivalent of course of millions today.
他借了数万美元,这相当于今天的数百万美元。
He had the strength of this vision that this was where his destiny was, and this was where the destiny of this country was, that the country was going to, kind of, ride to greatness on this tidal wave of oil.
他有这样的愿景:这就是他的命运所在,这就是这个国家的命运所在,这个国家将在石油的浪潮中走向伟大。
And he constantly felt that he would inevitably triumph in some fundamental way.
他一直觉得自己将不可避免地在某种根本上取得胜利。
Ellen Fitzpatrick, Historian: : He honestly believed that he had a calling to make money, and that it was a gift that had been bestowed upon him by God.
历史学家埃伦·菲茨帕特里克:他真诚地相信自己有赚钱的使命,这是上帝赐予他的礼物。
Just as some people could sing opera, and other people could paint beautifully, he had a particular aptitude for acquiring wealth.
就像有的人会唱戏,有的人会画画一样,他有一种特殊的致富天赋。
And he considered it a God-given gift.
他认为这是上帝赐予的礼物。
Narrator: : John D.
旁白::约翰·D.
tended his faith as carefully as his business.
他像对待自己的事业一样认真对待自己的信仰。
As a lowly clerk, he paid for a slave's freedom and gave to a Catholic orphanage.
作为一名卑微的职员,他为奴隶的自由付出了代价,并向天主教孤儿院捐款。
As he grew rich, his donations grew more generous, especially for his church in Cleveland.
随着他变得富有,他的捐款也变得更加慷慨,特别是为他位于克利夫兰的教堂。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He falls in love with this church.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他爱上了这座教堂。
He sweeps the chapel, he rings the bell, he lights the candles.
他打扫教堂,敲响钟声,点燃蜡烛。
He teaches in the Sunday school.
他在主日学校任教。
He seems to find in the church a refuge from the sort of sin that he has encountered with his father.
他似乎在教堂里找到了一个避难所,避免了他在父亲身上遇到的那种罪恶。
Narrator: : Soon, John was drawn to a young woman as devout and determined as he was.
旁白::很快,约翰就被一位和他一样虔诚、坚定的年轻女子所吸引。
Albert Berger, Historian: : Laura Spelman was an 1840s, 1850s feminist.
艾伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger),历史学家:劳拉·斯佩尔曼 (Laura Spelman) 是 1840 年代和 1850 年代的女权主义者。
She was the valedictorian of her high school graduating class, the same class that John D.
她是高中毕业班的告别演说者,与约翰·D·肯尼迪 (John D.
was in, and the title of her address was, "I can paddle my own canoe." And it was a plea for women's suffrage in 1855.
她的演讲标题是“我可以划我自己的独木舟”。这是 1855 年争取妇女选举权的呼吁。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : When John courted her, it was very different from the other young men of her set who were also after her and would see her at balls and parties.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家:当约翰向她求爱时,这与她身边的其他年轻人非常不同,他们也追求她,并会在舞会和聚会上见到她。
He would come to her house, and they might play a little piano together, but then they would often sit down with his ledger books, and go over them together.
他会去她家,他们可能会一起弹一首小钢琴,但随后他们经常会坐在他的账簿前,一起检查它们。
And she apparently found them just as interesting as he did.
她显然和他一样觉得它们很有趣。
Narrator: : On September 8th, 1864, John and Laura were married in a small private ceremony.
旁白: 1864 年 9 月 8 日,约翰和劳拉在一场小型私人仪式上结婚。
Rodman Rockefeller: : My great-grandmother was a figure who perhaps had a bit of hell and brimstone in her philosophy, who basically believed, "through deeds you go to heaven," and, therefore, you could very likely go to hell if you weren't properly motivated and properly achieving.
罗德曼·洛克菲勒:我的曾祖母是一个在她的哲学中可能带有一点地狱和硫磺的人物,她基本上相信“通过行为你可以进入天堂”,因此,如果你没有适当的动机和适当的成就,你很可能会下地狱。
Narrator: : Like his devout mother, Laura strengthened John's sense that he was doing God's work -- not only in church, but also in business.
旁白::像他虔诚的母亲一样,劳拉强化了约翰的感觉,即他正在做上帝的工作——不仅在教堂,而且在商业领域。
Rockefeller's future, however, was harnessed to an industry in trouble.
然而,洛克菲勒的未来却被一个陷入困境的行业所左右。
"So many wells were flowing," he lamented, "that the price of oil kept falling, yet they went right on drilling." He saw an industry plagued by over-production, and his own success threatened by what he described as "ruinous, cutthroat competition."
他感叹道:“这么多油井正在开采,石油价格不断下跌,但他们仍然继续钻探。”他看到这个行业受到生产过剩的困扰,而他自己的成功也受到他所说的“毁灭性的、残酷的竞争”的威胁。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者:约翰·D.
was shrewd enough and he was analytical enough that he realized that in order to figure out a way to save his own firm and his own newly-won fortune, that he had to figure out a solution for the entire industry.
他足够精明,分析能力也足够强,他意识到,为了找到拯救自己公司和自己新赚来的财富的方法,他必须为整个行业找到解决方案。
It was at that point that John D.
就在那时,约翰·D.
began to conceive of the oil industry as one big interrelated mechanism.
开始将石油工业视为一个相互关联的大型机制。
And you couldn't just change one component, you had to control the entire machine.
而且你不能只改变一个组件,你必须控制整台机器。
Narrator: : In a move that would transform the American economy, Rockefeller set out to replace a world of independent oilmen with a giant company controlled by him.
旁白:洛克菲勒此举将改变美国经济,他着手用他控制的巨型公司取代独立石油商的世界。
In 1870, begging bankers for more loans, he formed Standard Oil of Ohio.
1870 年,他向银行家请求更多贷款,成立了俄亥俄州标准石油公司。
The next year, he quietly put what he called "our plan" -- his campaign to dominate the volatile oil industry -- into devastating effect.
第二年,他悄悄实施了他所谓的“我们的计划”——他主导挥发性石油行业的运动——产生了毁灭性的影响。
Rockefeller knew that the refiner with the lowest transportation cost could bring rivals to their knees.
洛克菲勒知道,运输成本最低的炼油厂可能会让竞争对手屈服。
He entered into a secret alliance with the railroads called the South Improvement Company.
他与铁路公司结成秘密联盟,称为南方改进公司。
In exchange for large, regular shipments, Rockefeller and his allies secured transport rates far lower than those of their bewildered competitors.
为了换取大量定期发货,洛克菲勒和他的盟友获得了远低于困惑的竞争对手的运输费率。
Ida Tarbell, the daughter of an oil man, later remembered how men like her father struggled to make sense of events: "An uneasy rumor began running up and down the Oil Regions," she wrote.
艾达·塔贝尔(Ida Tarbell)是一位石油大亨的女儿,她后来回忆起像她父亲这样的男人如何努力理解事件的真相:“一个令人不安的谣言开始在油区上下流传,”她写道。
"Freight rates were going up.
“运费正在上涨。
...
...
Moreover ...
而且...
all members of the South Improvement Company -- a company unheard of until now -- were exempt.
迄今为止闻所未闻的南方改进公司(South Improvement Company)的所有成员均获得豁免。
...
...
Nobody waited to find out his neighbor's opinion.
没有人等着听邻居的意见。
On every lip there was but one word and that was 'conspiracy.'"
每个人的嘴上都只有一个词,那就是‘阴谋’。”
Ellen Fitzpatrick, Historian: : What it really represented was the face of monopoly.
历史学家艾伦·菲茨帕特里克::它真正代表的是垄断的面貌。
It immediately became clear that the entire nature of the enterprise was going to change in ways that spelled their doom.
人们立即意识到,企业的整个性质将发生改变,从而导致他们的灭亡。
And so there was a shock of recognition, that they were going to be left behind, and that a whole world that had been opened up to them was soon to close.
于是,人们震惊地认识到,他们将被抛在后面,向他们敞开的整个世界很快就会关闭。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : The image that was always used was that of the anaconda, the squeezing, python-like grips of this economic snake that was just taking individual entrepreneurs and just putting them out of business and reducing them to a kind of economic strait where they had no alternative but really to sell out, to sell out the principals in this conspiracy.
传记作者彼得·科利尔(Peter Collier):人们总是使用蟒蛇的形象,这条经济蛇像蟒蛇一样挤压,它只会夺走个体企业家,让他们破产,让他们陷入经济困境,他们别无选择,只能出卖,出卖这个阴谋中的本金。
It was a conspiracy, really.
这确实是一个阴谋。
It was one of the first great economic conspiracies in this country.
这是这个国家最早的伟大经济阴谋之一。
Narrator: : In an effort to thwart the scheme, many independents refused to sell crude oil to Rockefeller and his associates.
旁白::为了阻止这个计划,许多独立人士拒绝向洛克菲勒及其同伙出售原油。
Undaunted, Rockefeller used the threat of the South Improvement Company to intimidate his rival refiners in Cleveland.
洛克菲勒毫不畏惧,利用南方改进公司的威胁来恐吓他在克利夫兰的竞争对手炼油厂。
His brother and business partner William characterized the plan as "war or peace": sell out to Standard Oil or suffer the consequences.
他的兄弟兼商业伙伴威廉将该计划描述为“战争还是和平”:要么卖给标准石油公司,要么承担后果。
At first, they approached their targets with deference and flattery.
起初,他们以尊重和奉承的态度接近他们的目标。
Rockefeller himself used his own considerable talent for persuasion, presenting Standard Oil as a brotherhood based on cooperation.
洛克菲勒本人利用自己的说服才能,将标准石油公司描绘成基于合作的兄弟情谊。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He had this missionary faith that he was destined to guide this industry, and when he took over his rivals he not only wanted their plants, he often wanted their managers, so it was not in his interest to alienate them.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow)::他怀有传教士般的信念,认为自己注定要引导这个行业,当他接管竞争对手时,他不仅想要他们的工厂,还经常想要他们的经理,因此疏远他们并不符合他的利益。
He much preferred convincing people to sell to him voluntarily rather than trying to squeeze them through terror tactics, although if necessary he would resort to very rough methods in order to soften them up, or, he used a phrase, to give them "a good sweating" before he negotiated with them.
他更喜欢说服人们自愿向他出售产品,而不是试图通过恐怖策略来压榨他们,尽管如有必要,他会采取非常粗暴的方法来软化他们,或者用他的话来说,在与他们谈判之前让他们“大汗淋漓”。
Narrator: : Rockefeller might create a shortage of the railroad tank cars that transported oil.
旁白::洛克菲勒可能会造成运输石油的铁路油罐车的短缺。
He might go out and buy up all the barrels on the market so a competitor would have no place to store his oil or ship it.
他可能会出去购买市场上所有的石油,这样竞争对手就没有地方储存或运输他的石油。
He would even buy up all the available chemicals that were necessary to refine oil.
他甚至会买下所有炼油所需的化学品。
Rockefeller instructed Standard Oil men to communicate in code.
洛克菲勒指示标准石油公司的员工用代码进行交流。
The company was nicknamed "Club"; John D.
该公司被昵称为“俱乐部”;约翰·D.
Rockefeller was referred to as "Chowder."
洛克菲勒被称为“杂烩”。
Many of Rockefeller's targets had no idea that the local refiners who were slashing prices and acting like competitors were actually part of Rockefeller's growing empire.
洛克菲勒的许多目标并不知道那些大幅降价、表现得像竞争对手的当地炼油商实际上是洛克菲勒不断壮大的帝国的一部分。
In just two months, he had taken over 22 of the 26 Cleveland refineries, revealing the single-minded drive that would make him both the wonder and the terror of American business.
在短短两个月内,他就接管了克利夫兰 26 家炼油厂中的 22 家,展现了他的一心一意的干劲,这使他成为美国商界的奇迹和恐惧。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : Nobody knew what he sounded like, nobody'd heard him.
朱迪思·西兰德(Judith Sealander),历史学家::没有人知道他的声音是什么样的,没有人听过他的声音。
He walled himself off and the people who DID know him, the people who DID find him ruthless, had reason to find him ruthless, because you come up against someone who has no self doubts, who has a vision, and who has no qualms about achieving that vision -- because he doesn't think he's doing wrong.
他把自己封闭起来,那些认识他的人,那些确实觉得他无情的人,有理由觉得他无情,因为你遇到的是一个没有自我怀疑、有远见、并且对实现这一远见毫不犹豫的人——因为他不认为自己做错了。
Once he made his mind up, you might as well sell your company, because it was going to be part of Standard Oil.
一旦他下定决心,你不妨卖掉你的公司,因为它将成为标准石油公司的一部分。
Narrator: : Methodically, secretly, John D.
旁白::有条不紊地、秘密地,John D.
Rockefeller was doing more than transforming a single industry -- he was changing forever the way America did business.
洛克菲勒所做的不仅仅是改变一个行业——他正在永远改变美国的商业方式。
"The day of combination is here to stay," he declared, "individualism has gone, never to return."
“联合的日子即将到来,”他宣称,“个人主义已经一去不复返了。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : By 1879, when Rockefeller is 40, he controls 90 percent of the oil refining in the world.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow): 到 1879 年,洛克菲勒 40 岁时,他控制了世界上 90% 的炼油业。
Within a few years, he will control 90 percent of the marketing of oil and a third of all of the oil wells.
几年之内,他将控制90%的石油营销和三分之一的油井。
So this very young man controls what is not only a national but an international monopoly in a commodity that is about to become the most important strategic commodity in the world economy.
因此,这个非常年轻的人不仅控制着一种商品的国家垄断,而且还控制着国际垄断,这种商品即将成为世界经济中最重要的战略商品。
Narrator: : Rockefeller relished time spent with Laura.
旁白::洛克菲勒很享受与劳拉共度的时光。
After the birth of their first child, Elizabeth, they moved to Euclid Avenue, Cleveland's "millionaires' row." Rockefeller could have afforded any mansion on the street, he deliberately picked a more modest house, where his three remaining children were born -- Alta, Edith, and his only son, John Jr. Convinced that riches led to sin, Rockefeller, now one of America's richest men, faced a difficult task in raising his children.
他们的第一个孩子伊丽莎白出生后,他们搬到了克利夫兰的“百万富翁区”欧几里得大道。洛克菲勒本可以买得起街上的任何豪宅,但他特意选择了一栋更朴素的房子,他剩下的三个孩子就出生在那里——阿尔塔、伊迪丝和他唯一的儿子小约翰。洛克菲勒现在是美国最富有的人之一,他坚信财富会带来罪恶,在抚养孩子方面面临着艰巨的任务。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : They seemed a bit afraid of this wealth, and they felt they should continue to live as they had in the past with very simple wardrobe, children sharing toys, children earning allowances, that this was an important part of building character and continuing the virtuous life -- that to in some way to give in to too much luxury would lead one astray.
克拉丽丝·斯塔兹,历史学家:他们似乎有点害怕这种财富,他们觉得自己应该继续像过去一样生活,衣橱非常简单,孩子们分享玩具,孩子们赚取零用钱,这是培养品格和延续高尚生活的重要组成部分——以某种方式屈服于太多奢侈会导致人误入歧途。
Narrator: : Laura compelled young John to wear his sisters' remade hand-me-downs until he was eight.
旁白:劳拉强迫年轻的约翰穿着他姐妹们重新缝制的旧衣服,直到他八岁为止。
She once proudly confided to a neighbor, "I am so glad my son has told me what he wants for Christmas, so now it can be denied him." After she was diagnosed with consumption, the Rockefellers began to spend more time at Forest Hill, their 79-acre estate outside of Cleveland.
她曾经自豪地向邻居吐露:“我很高兴我的儿子告诉我他想要什么圣诞节礼物,所以现在可以拒绝他了。”在她被诊断出患有肺病后,洛克菲勒家族开始在克利夫兰郊外占地 79 英亩的森林山庄园度过更多时间。
Despite its grand facade, he insisted the interior remain bare of all signs of luxury or pretension.
尽管其外观宏伟,但他坚持认为内部没有任何奢华或浮夸的迹象。
"Money," Junior recalled, "was something there like air or food or any other element, yet it was never easily attainable."
“金钱,”朱尼尔回忆道,“就像空气、食物或任何其他元素一样,但它从来都不是轻易获得的。”
Bernice Kert, Author: : In the setting where all this frugality and restraint was practiced in the household, he was surrounded by hundreds of acres of gardens and lakes where they could ice-skate, by every outer manifestation of wealth, and then in the intimate family setting he was being raised like a poor little kid.
伯妮斯·科特(Bernice Kert),作者::在家庭中实行所有这些节俭和克制的环境中,他被数百英亩的花园和湖泊包围着,他们可以在那里滑冰,通过各种外在的财富表现,然后在亲密的家庭环境中,他像一个可怜的小孩一样被抚养长大。
Narrator: : To earn pocket money, Junior mended doors, killed flies, and sharpened pencils, dutifully keeping track of every penny in a ledger, just like his father.
旁白:为了挣零花钱,朱尼尔修门、灭苍蝇、削铅笔,尽职尽责地记录账本上的每一分钱,就像他的父亲一样。
He attended prayer meetings and recited temperance slogans without complaint.
他毫无怨言地参加祈祷会并背诵禁酒口号。
By age 10, he had signed a solemn oath that he would abstain from "tobacco, profanity, and the drinking of any intoxicating beverages." Junior and his sisters were constantly pushed by their mother to cleanse their souls of sin.
10岁时,他签署了一份庄严的誓言,表示自己将戒除“烟草、脏话和饮用任何醉人的饮料”。朱尼尔和他的姐妹们不断地被母亲督促净化他们灵魂的罪恶。
Bernice Kert, Author: : Every Sunday afternoon, Laura would sit down with the children and they would discuss what she called their -- what she called their "ill-conceived actions of the week." And that was, were the besetting sins, and the idea was to examine what they did and basically ask forgiveness.
伯妮斯·克特 (Bernice Kert),作家: 每个周日下午,劳拉都会与孩子们坐下来,他们会讨论她所谓的“本周考虑不周的行为”。那就是那些困扰着人们的罪恶,我们的想法是检查他们所做的事情并基本上请求宽恕。
And analyze how they could improve their behavior for the next week.
并分析他们如何在下周改善自己的行为。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : The most important lesson that she taught the children was, "What is your duty" -- and that is what is to guide your life, service to others.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家:她教给孩子们的最重要的一课是“你的职责是什么”——那就是指导你的生活,为他人服务。
You are not here just for your own enjoyment, or even just simply to pray.
你来这里不只是为了自己的享受,甚至不只是为了祈祷。
You have a purpose beyond that.
除此之外,你还有一个目的。
Albert Berger, Historian: : Laura was the disciplinarian in the family and John D., Sr. a doting, cheerful, indulgent father.
艾伯特·伯杰(Albert Berger),历史学家:劳拉(Laura)是家庭中的纪律严明者,老约翰·D.(John D., Sr.)是一位溺爱、开朗、宽容的父亲。
He plays with his children, his son.
他和他的孩子们、他的儿子一起玩耍。
Teaches him to skate.
教他滑冰。
When they're a little older, he ties a white handkerchief to the back of his belt and he leads the kids on bicycle chases across his estate.
当他们长大一些时,他会在腰带后面系上一块白手帕,然后带领孩子们在他的庄园里骑自行车追逐。
Narrator: : Rockefeller led his children through the winding roads at Forest Hill, revealing a boyish excitement that few outsiders ever saw.
旁白:洛克菲勒带着孩子们穿过森林山蜿蜒的道路,流露出很少有外人见过的孩子气的兴奋。
He loved to play games, electrifying the children with daring feints, sudden thrusts, and unexpected wheeling turns -- followed by whoops of delight when he won.
他喜欢玩游戏,用大胆的佯攻、突然的推力和意想不到的转身让孩子们兴奋不已,当他获胜时,他会欢呼雀跃。
Junior recalled, "Father never told us what not to do.
朱尼尔回忆说:“父亲从来没有告诉我们不该做什么。
He was one with us." Although Rockefeller was a merry companion for his children, he and Laura kept them cut off from the outside world.
他是我们中的一员。”尽管洛克菲勒是他的孩子们的快乐伴侣,但他和劳拉却让他们与外界隔绝。
"We went rarely, practically not at all, to neighbors' houses," John Jr. remembered.
“我们很少去邻居家,几乎根本不去,”小约翰回忆道。
"We had no childhood friends.
“我们没有儿时的朋友。
No school friends." The austerity drilled into John D.
没有学校的朋友。”紧缩政策深深地烙印在约翰·D.
by his mother Eliza still reigned in the Rockefeller family.
他的母亲伊丽莎仍然在洛克菲勒家族中占据统治地位。
At age 76, immobilized by a stroke, she died with her eldest son at her side.
76 岁时,她因中风而行动不便,去世时,她的长子陪伴在她身边。
She never knew her husband had taken a second wife.
她从来不知道她的丈夫娶了第二任妻子。
Rockefeller expected his estranged father to attend the funeral.
洛克菲勒希望他疏远的父亲能够参加葬礼。
When Devil Bill failed to show, it was the last straw.
当魔鬼比尔未能出场时,这成为了最后一根稻草。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : The day before Eliza's funeral, John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者:: 在伊丽莎葬礼的前一天,约翰·D.
instructed the preacher to describe his mother as a widow.
指示传教士将他的母亲描述为寡妇。
This was part of his revenge.
这是他复仇的一部分。
He was editing his father out of existence, and he never forgave his father, and he distinctly left the impression with people in subsequent years that his father was dead.
他正在编辑他父亲的存在,他从未原谅他的父亲,他在随后的几年里给人们留下了明显的印象:他的父亲已经死了。
Narrator: : In 1883, Rockefeller moved his family to New York, the center of America's burgeoning industrial economy.
旁白: 1883 年,洛克菲勒举家迁往美国新兴工业经济中心纽约。
The king of Standard Oil now set out to transform his company into something bigger and more powerful than anything the world had ever seen.
标准石油公司之王现在着手将他的公司转变为世界上前所未有的更大、更强大的公司。
Rockefeller reigned over a patchwork of companies, cumbersome to manage.
洛克菲勒统治下的公司错综复杂,管理起来很麻烦。
He was looking for a way to skirt a law that then prohibited combining the operations of businesses in different states.
他正在寻找一种方法来规避当时禁止合并不同州企业运营的法律。
His solution was to have stockholders in 40 companies secretly trade in their shares for certificates in a Standard Oil trust.
他的解决方案是让 40 家公司的股东秘密交易其股票,以换取标准石油信托公司的证书。
The trust became a corporation of corporations.
该信托公司成为一家公司。
Rockefeller had devised an ingenious legal shield.
洛克菲勒设计了一个巧妙的法律盾牌。
Behind it, he could command his vast business empire -- smoothly and in complete secrecy.
在它的背后,他可以指挥他庞大的商业帝国——顺利且完全保密。
In 1885, he moved Standard Oil into an imposing granite fortress near Wall Street.
1885 年,他将标准石油公司迁入华尔街附近一座雄伟的花岗岩堡垒。
26 Broadway soon became the world's most famous business address.
百老汇26号很快成为世界上最著名的商业地址。
It was also a hated symbol of a monopoly so powerful that no law seemed able to control it.
它也是一个令人憎恶的垄断象征,垄断如此强大,以至于似乎没有法律能够控制它。
Ellen Fitzpatrick, Historian: : Small businessmen, middle class Americans, people who were independent, who were used to believing that hard work and determined effort was the way to success looked at corporations like the Standard Oil with their unprecedented size, and felt afraid.
历史学家埃伦·菲茨帕特里克:小商人、美国中产阶级、独立的人,习惯于相信努力工作和坚定的努力是成功之路的人,看到像标准石油公司这样规模空前的公司,感到害怕。
And so feeling ran extremely high and the hostility was intense.
因此,情绪非常高涨,敌意也非常强烈。
Narrator: : Rockefeller saw himself as a prophet of a new order.
旁白::洛克菲勒将自己视为新秩序的先知。
He called it "cooperation"; his critics called it monopoly.
他称之为“合作”;他的批评者称之为垄断。
His company would be the world's first great multinational corporation -- efficient and stable, with vast economies of scale.
他的公司将成为世界上第一家伟大的跨国公司——高效、稳定,具有巨大的规模经济。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : During the first 20 years of Standard Oil, John D.
Ron Chernow,传记作者::在标准石油公司的头 20 年里,John D.
Rockefeller managed to lower the price of kerosene from 23 cents a gallon to seven cents a gallon and he managed to improve the quality of the product at the same time.
洛克菲勒成功地将煤油的价格从每加仑 23 美分降低到每加仑 7 美分,同时他还设法提高了产品的质量。
He was a monopolist, he was a rough and often unscrupulous monopolist, but he was also a very smart and enterprising businessman.
他是一个垄断者,他是一个粗暴且常常不择手段的垄断者,但他也是一个非常聪明和进取的商人。
There was nothing complacent about him.
他没有任何自满的地方。
And it was one of the ways that he was able to justify these rough methods to himself.
这是他能够向自己证明这些粗暴方法的合理性的方式之一。
Narrator: : Rockefeller had wanted to remain invisible, but he wielded such power that he became a magnet for suspicion.
旁白:洛克菲勒本想隐身,但他所掌握的权力却引起了人们的怀疑。
Hearings, investigations, and lawsuits began to challenge the Standard Oil empire.
听证会、调查和诉讼开始对标准石油帝国构成挑战。
John D.
约翰·D.
was called to testify in one forum after another.
被传唤在一个又一个论坛上作证。
Peter Collier, Biographer: He was a kind of difficult witness to kind of pin down.
传记作者彼得·科利尔(Peter Collier):他是一位难以确定的证人。
Because on the one hand he was verbally fairly clever, actually, and keen in terms of his ability to listen to the questions.
因为一方面,他实际上在言语上相当聪明,而且在倾听问题的能力方面也很敏锐。
When he was being investigated about the South Improvement Company for instance, one interrogator said something about the Southern Improvement Company, and he seized upon that misnomer and John D.
例如,当他接受有关南方改进公司的调查时,一名审讯者说了一些关于南方改进公司的事情,他抓住了这个用词不当和约翰·D·肯尼迪 (John D.
said, "I wasn't part of that."
说:“我没有参与其中。”
Narrator: : One reporter described 26 Broadway as "…a cave for pirates.
旁白::一位记者将百老汇 26 号描述为“……海盗的洞穴。
A den for the cutthroats of commerce." Reporters who eluded the security guards encountered doors with special locks.
商业杀手的巢穴。”躲避保安的记者遇到了带有特殊锁的门。
The trick was to twist the rim with thumb and forefinger before turning the knob.
诀窍是在转动旋钮之前用拇指和食指扭转边缘。
If a trespasser did not know the secret he could find himself trapped between locked doors.
如果侵入者不知道这个秘密,他可能会发现自己被困在锁着的门之间。
Half of America seemed willing to lynch Rockefeller.
一半的美国人似乎愿意对洛克菲勒处以私刑。
The other half wanted a loan.
另一半想要贷款。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : He received on average 50 to 60,000 letters a month, asking for help.
历史学家朱迪思·西兰德 (Judith Sealander)::他每月平均收到 50 至 60,000 封求助信。
Dozens of people followed him in the street.
街上有几十个人跟着他。
Literally, crowds stood around the Standard Oil offices waiting for him to come out.
从字面上看,标准石油公司办公室周围站满了人群等待他出来。
Little children, painfully thin, crying in the street and so on.
小孩子,瘦得令人痛苦,在街上哭泣等等。
Rockefeller felt overwhelmed.
洛克菲勒感到不知所措。
Narrator: : By 1889 John D.
旁白::1889 年约翰·D.
pegged his fortune at more than $40 million dollars.
他的财富估计超过 4000 万美元。
He had always been a generous man, but at the same time loath to waste a penny.
他一向是个慷慨的人,但同时又不舍得浪费一分钱。
He hired Rev.
他聘请了牧师。
Frederick Gates, a Baptist minister, to help him forge a new set of principles for philanthropy.
浸信会牧师弗雷德里克·盖茨 (Frederick Gates) 帮助他制定了一套新的慈善原则。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : Senior began very seriously to re-think not just the vehicles but the purposes of charity.
朱迪思·西兰德(Judith Sealander),历史学家::高级开始非常认真地重新思考不仅是车辆,还有慈善事业的目的。
Charity as a way of remaking society and not ameliorating evil.
慈善是重塑社会而不是改善邪恶的一种方式。
So, cure scarlet fever, don't provide another scarlet fever ward in a children's hospital.
所以,治愈猩红热,不要在儿童医院另设猩红热病房。
Find a more productive way of growing corn, rather than making a soup kitchen.
寻找一种更高效的玉米种植方式,而不是建造一个施粥处。
He was ahead of his time then, he still is.
那时他领先于他的时代,现在仍然如此。
Narrator: : In the coming years, Rockefeller would fund the education of black women at Spelman College in Atlanta; found the University of Chicago -- the midwestern equivalent of the Ivy League; support groundbreaking medical research and public health campaigns.
旁白:在接下来的几年里,洛克菲勒将资助亚特兰大斯佩尔曼学院黑人女性的教育;建立了芝加哥大学——相当于中西部的常春藤盟校;支持突破性的医学研究和公共卫生运动。
Frederick Gates pushed him on, warning, "Mr. Rockefeller your fortune is rolling up ...
弗雷德里克·盖茨 (Frederick Gates) 催促他,警告说:“洛克菲勒先生,你的财富正在滚滚而来......
like an avalanche!
就像雪崩一样!
...
...
You must distribute it faster than it grows!
你的分配速度必须快于它的增长速度!
If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children!" Already strained by the demands of making money, Rockefeller now staggered under the new pressures of giving it away.
如果你不这样做,它就会压垮你和你的孩子以及你孩子的孩子!”洛克菲勒原本就因赚钱的需求而感到紧张,现在又在捐赠的新压力下摇摇欲坠。
"I investigated and worked myself almost to a nervous breakdown," he said, "in groping my way through the ever-widening field of philanthropic endeavor."
他说:“在不断扩大的慈善事业领域中摸索着自己的道路时,我进行了调查和工作,几乎精神崩溃。”
Suffering from chronic stomach problems, Rockefeller took time off from work and retreated to Forest Hill.
由于患有慢性胃病,洛克菲勒从工作中请假,隐居到森林山。
To regain his health, he worked outdoors, rode his bike, and ate simply.
为了恢复健康,他在户外工作,骑自行车,饮食简单。
By the end of the summer he had gained 15 pounds.
到夏末,他的体重增加了 15 磅。
Still, he resisted returning to work and now contemplated something unthinkable: retirement.
尽管如此,他仍然拒绝重返工作岗位,现在正在考虑一些不可想象的事情:退休。
Laurance Rockefeller: : Here he was this wealthy person with great power, and in his mid-50s he gave it all up.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒:他是一位拥有巨大权力的富人,但在 50 多岁的时候他放弃了一切。
Now, in the history, I have never seen anybody do anything like that and then be happy without it.
现在,在历史上,我从未见过任何人做了这样的事情,然后没有它就快乐。
See, he had incredible wholeness and self-sufficiency, see.
看,他有令人难以置信的完整性和自给自足,看。
Power, money, status, position were no longer important to him.
权力、金钱、地位、地位对他来说都不再重要了。
Narrator: : In 1897, John D.
旁白: : 1897 年,John D.
Rockefeller retired from Standard Oil, keeping the presidency in name only.
洛克菲勒从标准石油公司退休,总统职位名存实亡。
No public announcement was made.
没有发布任何公告。
Few Americans realized that the man they believed responsible for running the most powerful corporation on earth had surrendered the reins.
很少有美国人意识到,他们认为负责运营地球上最强大公司的人已经放弃了权力。
When asked why Rockefeller retained the president's title, one senior director explained, "...
当被问及为什么洛克菲勒保留总统头衔时,一位高级董事解释说:“......
He had to keep it ...
他必须保留它……
Cases against us were pending in the courts; and we told him that if any of us have to go to jail, he would have to go with us." As the only son and heir, John D.
针对我们的案件正在法庭审理中;我们告诉他,如果我们中的任何一个人必须进监狱,他就必须和我们一起去。”作为唯一的儿子和继承人,约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. carried a heavy burden.
小洛克菲勒背负着沉重的负担。
From an early age, he had been taught that the responsibilities of the family fortune and name would be his to bear.
他从小就被教导,家庭的财富和名誉的责任是由他来承担的。
By age 18, he had suffered two nervous collapses.
18岁时,他曾两次精神崩溃。
Albert Berger, Historian: : John D.
艾伯特·伯杰,历史学家:约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. has some really rather impossible tasks ahead of him.
小洛克菲勒面临着一些真正不可能完成的任务。
Because by the time he comes of age his father has been successful beyond anybody's wildest dreams, including his own.
因为当他成年时,他父亲所取得的成功超出了任何人最疯狂的梦想,包括他自己。
To the point where the son cannot possibly match the father.
到了儿子根本无法与父亲匹敌的地步。
Moreover, he is certainly familiar with the proverb, "Of those to whom much has been given, much shall be required." And by the time he comes in to his own, he realizes he's been given more than anybody else.
而且,他当然熟悉这句谚语:“给予者多,要求者也多”。当他回到自己的世界时,他意识到自己得到的比任何人都多。
So, of course, from him shall be required more than anybody else.
因此,当然,对他的要求比其他任何人都多。
Narrator: : Intensely conscientious, Junior entered Brown University in September 1893.
旁白::朱尼尔非常认真,于 1893 年 9 月进入布朗大学。
He still wrote all his expenses down in a ledger, and mended his own clothes.
他仍然把所有的开支记在账本上,自己缝补衣服。
Slowly, however, he began to wean himself from his strict upbringing.
然而,他慢慢地开始摆脱严格的教养。
For the first time in his life he went to the theater, enjoyed football games, and even once smoked a pack of cigarettes.
他生平第一次去看戏,欣赏足球比赛,甚至抽了一包烟。
To the horror of his mother he learned to dance.
令他母亲惊恐的是,他学会了跳舞。
Soon he met Abby Aldrich, a popular Providence girl undaunted by his name or his money.
很快,他遇到了艾比·奥尔德里奇,一位受欢迎的普罗维登斯女孩,不畏惧他的名字和金钱。
Bernice Kert, Author: : Abby Aldrich, because she was raised in a liberated, relaxed, artistic family, was like an injection of dynamism and interest in the larger world, which John had been shielded from.
伯妮斯·科特(Bernice Kert),作者:艾比·奥尔德里奇(Abby Aldrich),因为她在一个自由、轻松、艺术的家庭中长大,就像对约翰一直屏蔽的更大世界注入了活力和兴趣。
Narrator: : Abby's father, Nelson Aldrich, was a controversial United States senator from Rhode Island.
旁白: 艾比的父亲纳尔逊·奥尔德里奇是一位来自罗德岛州的颇具争议的美国参议员。
He was fiercely criticized by the press for being the prime power-broker of the great trusts.
他因成为大托拉斯的主要权力掮客而受到媒体的猛烈批评。
Junior admired Abby's ability to be loyal to her father and ignore the criticism he attracted.
朱尼尔钦佩艾比忠于父亲并无视他所招致的批评的能力。
As he approached graduation he still worshipped his own father and was deeply wounded by relentless attacks in the press.
临近毕业时,他仍然崇拜自己的父亲,并因媒体的无情攻击而深受伤害。
In 1897, fresh out of college, Junior went to work for Standard Oil.
1897 年,朱尼尔大学刚毕业,就到标准石油公司工作。
"My one thought from the time I was a boy," he recalled, "was to help my father."
“从我还是个孩子的时候起,我的一个想法就是帮助我的父亲,”他回忆道。
Albert Berger, Historian: : When he got there, nobody bothered to tell him how he was expected to help.
艾伯特·伯杰,历史学家::当他到达那里时,没有人费心告诉他应该如何提供帮助。
He was given a desk, he was given a salary, he was given some miscellaneous chores, but nobody told him what was expected of him.
他们给了他一张桌子,给了他工资,给了他一些杂务,但没有人告诉他对他的期望。
He had to find out for himself where his place in the world was, and perhaps that is what Senior had in mind, was letting him find his own way.
他必须自己去寻找自己在这个世界上的位置,或许这就是前辈的意思,让他找到自己的出路。
But in this case it made life more difficult for the son.
但在这种情况下,却让儿子的日子更加难过了。
Narrator: : Anxious to succeed at something, Junior tried investing.
旁白::由于渴望在某件事上取得成功,朱尼尔尝试了投资。
He trusted the advice of a shady Wall Street speculator.
他相信一位阴暗的华尔街投机者的建议。
Suddenly, cautious Junior lost $1 million dollars of his father's money.
突然,谨慎的朱尼尔失去了他父亲的 100 万美元的钱。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He went to see his father, with what must have been a terrible churning sensation in his stomach.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他去看他的父亲,他的胃里一定有一种可怕的翻腾的感觉。
His father reacted very patiently.
他的父亲反应非常耐心。
John D., Sr. asked him a lot of questions and instead of in any way scolding or reprimanding him at the end says, "All right, John, I'll take care of it." He saw that his son was flagellating himself about this incident and that there was no need punishing a son who was so clearly punishing himself.
老约翰·D. 问了他很多问题,最后没有以任何方式责骂或训斥他,而是说:“好吧,约翰,我会解决的。”他看到儿子因为这件事在鞭打自己,没有必要惩罚一个如此明显地惩罚自己的儿子。
Narrator: : Fearing the family's vast fortune would overwhelm his son, Senior begged Junior to relax.
旁白::由于担心家庭的巨额财产会压垮儿子,前辈恳求少年放轻松。
Laura, however, pushed him forward.
然而劳拉却推着他往前走。
"You are the son of the king of kings," she reminded him, "and so you can never do what will dishonor your father, or be disloyal to the king." Junior anguished over whether to marry Abby, and for four years prayed every day for divine guidance.
“你是万王之王的儿子,”她提醒他,“所以你永远不能做羞辱你父亲的事情,或者对国王不忠的事情。”朱尼尔为是否要嫁给艾比而苦恼,四年来每天都祈祷上帝的指引。
Gently, his mother ended his agony, saying, "Of course you love Miss Aldrich.
他的母亲温柔地结束了他的痛苦,说道:“你当然爱奥尔德里奇小姐。
Why don't you go at once and tell her so?" That fall, the freewheeling Senator Aldrich invited guests to an extravagant wedding.
你为什么不马上去告诉她呢?”那年秋天,随心所欲的参议员奥尔德里奇邀请宾客参加一场奢华的婚礼。
In private yachts, the elite of Gilded Age society descended on his Rhode Island estate.
镀金时代社会的精英们乘坐私人游艇来到了他在罗德岛的庄园。
Many in the press saw this union of money and political power in dark terms.
许多媒体人士都以阴暗的方式看待这种金钱与政治权力的结合。
One reporter warned, "The chief exploiter of the American people is [now] closely allied by marriage with the chief schemer ..." For the austere, controlled Rockefellers, Junior's new wife would be a liberating influence.
一位记者警告说,“美国人民的主要剥削者(现在)与主要阴谋家联姻,紧密地结成联盟……”对于严肃、控制欲强的洛克菲勒家族来说,朱尼尔的新婚妻子将带来解放性的影响。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : When they're first married and Junior says, "Well, you'll have to keep a ledger," she just says, "No, I won't." And when he gives her a thousand dollars as a wedding present, a rather interesting act in itself, she gives it to the YWCA in Providence.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家::当他们第一次结婚时,朱尼尔说,“好吧,你必须保留账本,”她只是说,“不,我不会。”当他给她一千美元作为结婚礼物时,这本身就是一个相当有趣的行为,她把它捐给了普罗维登斯的基督教青年会。
So immediately you see she is going to assert herself.
所以你立刻就会看到她会坚持自己的主张。
Narrator: : Abby joined the Rockefellers as they were about to enter the most painful moment in their history.
旁白:艾比加入了洛克菲勒家族,当时洛克菲勒家族即将进入历史上最痛苦的时刻。
Her husband would soon find himself in the harsh light of public scrutiny -- alongside his father.
她的丈夫很快就会发现自己与他的父亲一起受到公众的严厉监督。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : When John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者::当约翰·D.
was in his 50s, his hair started to fall out and his mustache began to fall out and suddenly, in 1901, all of his body hair fell out.
50多岁的时候,他的头发开始脱落,胡子开始脱落,突然间,在1901年,他的体毛全部脱落。
Not just from his head, all over his body.
不仅是从他的头上,还有他的全身。
And this was a very crushing and humiliating thing to suffer from because when you see photographs of him completely bald in the early 1900's he looks like he could be in his 70's or 80's.
这是一件非常令人心碎和羞辱的事情,因为当你看到他在 1900 年代初期完全秃顶的照片时,他看起来就像 70 多岁或 80 多岁。
Narrator: : Rockefeller had looked forward to the end of his long career.
旁白::洛克菲勒曾期待着他漫长职业生涯的结束。
But now, the scandal surrounding his rise to power would be resurrected -- in haunting detail.
但现在,围绕他上台的丑闻将再次卷土重来,细节令人难以忘怀。
Rockefeller and Standard Oil were about to be investigated by a vigorous new president, Theodore Roosevelt, and an increasingly assertive press.
洛克菲勒和标准石油公司即将受到精力充沛的新总统西奥多·罗斯福和日益自信的媒体的调查。
In 1901, the managing editor of McClure's magazine, Ida Tarbell, decided to research America's most secretive businessman.
1901 年,麦克卢尔杂志的总编辑艾达·塔贝尔 (Ida Tarbell) 决定对美国最神秘的商人进行研究。
She began her investigation with an emotional journey back to Pennsylvania, where oil men like her father and brother had fought Standard Oil.
她以一次回到宾夕法尼亚州的激动人心的旅程开始了调查,在那里像她父亲和兄弟这样的石油人曾与标准石油公司作战。
Here she talked with legions of Rockefeller enemies.
在这里,她与洛克菲勒的大批敌人进行了交谈。
"The task confronting me is a monstrous one," she wrote.
“我面临的任务是一项艰巨的任务,”她写道。
"I dream of the octopus day and night and can think of nothing else."
“我日夜都梦见章鱼,除此之外什么也想不起来。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : When Ida Tarbell started writing the series, Rockefeller didn't realize how powerful the press had become in an age when Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst had mass newspaper chains.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::当艾达·塔贝尔(Ida Tarbell)开始撰写该系列文章时,洛克菲勒并没有意识到,在约瑟夫·普利策(Joseph Pulitzer)和威廉·兰道夫·赫斯特(William Randolph Hearst)拥有大量连锁报纸的时代,媒体已经变得多么强大。
He didn't realize the new sophistication of muckrakers like Ida Tarbell, who were capable of taking a very complex subject, slicing it open, and really dissecting a person's life or an institution.
他没有意识到像艾达·塔贝尔这样的黑幕揭发者的新复杂性,他们能够把一个非常复杂的主题切开,真正剖析一个人的生活或一个机构。
Narrator: : In 1902, Tarbell's revelations gripped the nation.
旁白: 1902 年,塔贝尔的揭露震惊了全国。
She brought to life a drama in which independent oil men were crushed by the mighty Standard Oil.
她将一出独立石油人被强大的标准石油公司压垮的戏剧栩栩如生。
She documented the monopoly's collusion with the railroads, the kickbacks and shady dealings.
她记录了垄断企业与铁路的勾结、回扣和不正当交易。
She exposed the sweatings and crushings, the spies and codes, the secret ownership of supposed rivals.
她揭露了汗水和压迫、间谍和密码、所谓竞争对手的秘密所有权。
"There was not a lazy bone in the organization, not an incompetent hand or stupid head," she wrote.
“组织里没有一个懒惰的人,没有一个无能的手或愚蠢的头脑,”她写道。
"But they had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me."
“但他们从来没有公平竞争,这毁了他们对我来说的伟大。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : Because the series was such a great success and the circulation of McClure's kept jumping up, they allowed the series to run to 19 installments and what happened with each installment was not only did the audience grow larger, and Teddy Roosevelt was avidly reading it and writing fan letters to Ida Tarbell, a lot of new sources were coming out of the woodwork as it went on and so there was a tremendous crescendo and the public kept getting angrier and angrier at Rockefeller.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::因为该系列非常成功,而且麦克卢尔的发行量不断上升,他们允许该系列连续播放 19 期,每期不仅观众数量增加,泰迪·罗斯福也热衷于阅读该系列,并给艾达·塔贝尔写粉丝信,随着它的继续,许多新的来源不断涌现,因此出现了巨大的高潮,公众越来越愤怒对洛克菲勒更加愤怒。
Narrator: : President Theodore Roosevelt denounced him as a law breaker.
旁白::西奥多·罗斯福总统谴责他违法。
Novelist Leo Tolstoy cried out that no honest man should work with him.
小说家列夫·托尔斯泰大声疾呼,任何诚实的人都不应与他合作。
Rockefeller was called a pirate, a buccaneer, a robber baron.
洛克菲勒被称为海盗、海盗、强盗大亨。
He received torrents of abusive mail, even death threats.
他收到大量辱骂邮件,甚至死亡威胁。
Still, he refused to answer any of the charges leveled against him.
尽管如此,他拒绝回答对他提出的任何指控。
From his mother's silence in the face of family scandal, he had learned, as he put it, to "let the world wag."
正如他所说,从母亲面对家庭丑闻时的沉默中,他学会了“让世界摇摆不定”。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : I think if he had responded early to the Tarbell series, the wave of press and political denunciation might have subsided a bit.
历史学家朱迪思·西兰德(Judith Sealander):我认为,如果他尽早对塔贝尔系列做出回应,媒体和政治谴责的浪潮可能会稍微平息一些。
But Senior knew that he could respond to some things in the series and say that's just not true, but he also knew that there were plenty of other things that were true -- about the rebates, the bribing and so on.
但高级知道他可以对系列中的某些事情做出回应并说这不是真的,但他也知道还有很多其他事情是真实的——关于回扣、贿赂等等。
So, I think he probably in the end knew that he had no choice.
所以,我想他最终可能知道他别无选择。
Narrator: : Tarbell traveled to Cleveland to glimpse the Titan at one of his rare public appearances at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church.
旁白:塔贝尔前往克利夫兰,在欧几里得大道浸信会教堂罕见的公开露面中一睹泰坦风采。
"There was an awful age in his face," she observed.
“他的脸上显露出了可怕的年龄,”她观察到。
"The oldest man I have ever seen.
“我见过的最年长的人。
Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.
洛克菲勒先生也许已经使自己成为世界首富,但他已经付出了代价。
Nothing but paying ever ploughs such lines ..." Tarbell described Rockefeller's agitated behavior, the way he was "searching the aisles" for possible enemies.
除了付出代价之外,什么也没有……”塔贝尔描述了洛克菲勒的激动行为,以及他“在过道中搜寻”可能的敌人的方式。
"Mr. Rockefeller," she concluded, "for all his conscious power, was afraid.
“洛克菲勒先生,”她总结道,“尽管他有足够的意识,但他还是感到害怕。
Afraid of his own kind."
害怕他的同类。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : She then capped the 19-part series with a two-part character study where she described Rockefeller as hideous, and leprous in appearance, and that actually wounded him much more than her exposé of his business methods.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::然后,她用两部分的人物研究来结束这个由 19 部分组成的系列,其中她将洛克菲勒描述为丑陋的、外表像麻风病的人,这实际上比她揭露他的商业方法对他造成的伤害更大。
He felt that it was very unfair to have portrayed him in this ghoulish fashion and to make the fact that he had lost all his hair somehow proof of his depravity.
他觉得以这种残忍的方式描绘他并让他失去所有头发的事实在某种程度上证明他的堕落是非常不公平的。
Narrator: : The most painful blow, however, was Tarbell's exposure of Rockefeller's father as a snake-oil salesman, bigamist, and accused rapist.
旁白:然而,最痛苦的打击是塔贝尔揭露洛克菲勒的父亲是万金油推销员、重婚犯和被指控的强奸犯。
The discovery that Devil Bill was still alive set off a nationwide manhunt.
魔鬼比尔还活着的发现引发了全国范围内的追捕。
One newspaper publisher offered $8,000 for information about him.
一家报纸出版商愿意支付 8,000 美元以获取有关他的信息。
Rockefeller began to fear that his children might be kidnapped.
洛克菲勒开始担心他的孩子可能会被绑架。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : Ida Tarbell really took a toll on the family.
朱迪思·西兰德(Judith Sealander),历史学家:艾达·塔贝尔确实对这个家庭造成了伤害。
John Jr. certainly had what could only be described as a really catastrophic nervous breakdown.
小约翰确实患有真正的灾难性的精神崩溃。
Senior had serious, continuous stomach ailments.
老人患有严重的、持续的胃病。
His wife was ill.
他的妻子病了。
So that I think that the whole family, not just Senior, was reacting to what they saw as a body blow.
所以我认为整个家庭,而不仅仅是前辈,都对他们所看到的身体打击做出了反应。
Narrator: : Isolated and discouraged, John D.
旁白::孤立而沮丧,约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. confided to his bible class, "I've never had more occasion to seek the sympathy of friends.
小洛克菲勒向他的圣经班吐露说:“我从来没有像现在这样有机会寻求朋友的同情。
...
...
All the money in the world will not take the place of friends.
世界上所有的金钱都不能取代朋友。
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...
Riches," the young heir warned his pupils, "breed but sin."
年轻的继承人警告他的学生,“财富只会滋生罪恶。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : This must have been an especially distressing period because, as he's working at Standard Oil, he has a lot of contact with his father's hand-picked successor, John D.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)::这肯定是一段特别令人痛苦的时期,因为他在标准石油公司工作时,与父亲精心挑选的继任者约翰·D·切尔诺 (John D.
Archbold, who's engaged in an enormous amount of political corruption.
阿奇博尔德参与了大量的政治腐败。
And so, I think that the Tarbell series is especially distressing because he wants desperately to believe in his father's innocence.
所以,我认为塔贝尔系列特别令人痛苦,因为他拼命地想相信他父亲的清白。
And yet he's increasingly disturbed at 26 Broadway by the sordid atmosphere of Standard Oil.
然而,他对百老汇 26 号标准石油公司的肮脏气氛越来越感到不安。
Which meant that on some level, he must have suspected that a lot of these things were true.
这意味着在某种程度上,他一定怀疑其中很多事情都是真的。
Narrator: : Adrift at Standard Oil, Junior threw himself into building a new home for his father.
旁白::朱尼尔在标准石油公司漂泊不定,全身心投入为父亲建造新家。
Located at Pocantico Hills, 30 miles north of New York City, the site was called Kykuit, Dutch for "lookout." It had a panoramic view of the Hudson River.
该地点位于纽约市以北 30 英里的波坎蒂科山 (Pocantico Hills),被称为“Kykuit”,荷兰语“瞭望台”的意思。可以看到哈德逊河的全景。
Soon it became a haven for the family.
很快,这里就成为了一家人的避风港。
Outside its walls, reporters gathered, demanding answers.
记者们聚集在围墙外,要求得到答案。
For Junior, facing a hostile public became increasingly difficult as he and Abby began to have children.
对于朱尼尔来说,随着他和艾比开始生孩子,面对充满敌意的公众变得越来越困难。
Their daughter Abby, nicknamed Babs, was soon followed by John D.
他们的女儿艾比(Abby),绰号“巴布斯”(Babs),很快约翰·D·肯尼迪(John D.
Rockefeller III who was heralded as the "Richest Baby in History." Newspapers gloated that the Titan could not visit his first grandson because of fear he would be served with a subpoena.
洛克菲勒三世被誉为“历史上最富有的婴儿”。报纸幸灾乐祸地表示,这位泰坦无法探望他的长孙,因为担心他会收到传票。
With a rash of lawsuits now pending against Standard Oil, Rockefeller began leading the life of a fugitive, keeping his whereabouts secret.
随着一系列针对标准石油公司的诉讼悬而未决,洛克菲勒开始过着逃亡的生活,对自己的行踪保密。
Kykuit became both his prison and fortress, surrounded by Pinkerton guards.
基奎特既成了他的监狱,又成了他的堡垒,周围都是平克顿的守卫。
As the Tarbell series drew to its close, the federal government announced sweeping anti-trust indictments against Standard Oil.
随着塔贝尔系列事件接近尾声,联邦政府宣布对标准石油公司发起全面的反垄断起诉。
Senior was determined to carry on, confident in his own rectitude.
老前辈决心继续下去,对自己的正直充满信心。
Junior could not.
朱尼尔不能。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : Here was the son of the most controversial businessman in America, who had to figure out, by sheer force of character, a way to change the image and the direction of this family without openly repudiating this father he loved.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::这是美国最具争议的商人的儿子,他必须凭借纯粹的性格力量找出一种方法来改变这个家庭的形象和方向,同时又不公开否认他所爱的父亲。
He had to be both loyal to his father and loyal to his principles at the same time even though his principles often differed from those of his father.
他必须同时忠于他的父亲和他的原则,尽管他的原则常常与他父亲的原则不同。
Narrator: : In 1910, John D.
旁白::1910 年,John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. decided to retire from the Standard Oil Trust and devote himself exclusively to helping his father give away the family fortune.
小洛克菲勒决定从标准石油信托公司退休,全身心投入帮助父亲捐出家族财产。
With Junior at his side, Senior launched the Rockefeller Foundation, endowed with $100 million dollars.
在朱尼奥的支持下,塞尼奥创立了洛克菲勒基金会,并捐赠了 1 亿美元。
Its ambitious goal was "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world."
其雄心勃勃的目标是“促进全世界人类的福祉”。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : Other people may have had trouble reconciling Senior as the greatest philanthropist of his age.
朱迪思·西兰德(Judith Sealander),历史学家::其他人可能很难将西尼尔视为他那个时代最伟大的慈善家。
I think what's important to note is that Senior never had a moment's worry.
我认为值得注意的是,前辈从来没有一刻担心过。
The notion that he gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to assuage guilt is nonsense.
认为他捐出数亿美元来减轻负罪感的想法纯属无稽之谈。
The notion that Junior became a great philanthropist because of worry and guilt is not so easy to call.
朱尼尔因为忧虑和愧疚而成为伟大慈善家的想法并不那么容易解释。
Junior was a man plagued by self-doubt.
朱尼尔是一个饱受自我怀疑困扰的人。
Narrator: : On May 15th, 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that Standard Oil was a monopoly in restraint of trade and should be dissolved.
旁白: 1911年5月15日,美国最高法院宣布标准石油公司是限制贸易的垄断企业,应予解散。
Rockefeller heard of the decision while golfing at Kykuit with a priest from the local Catholic church, Father J.P.
洛克菲勒在 Kykuit 与当地天主教堂神父 J.P. 一起打高尔夫球时听说了这一决定。
Lennon.
列侬。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : And Rockefeller reacted with amazing aplomb.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::洛克菲勒的反应令人惊叹。
He turned to the Catholic priest and said, "Father Lennon, have you some money?" And the priest was very startled by the question and said, "No." And then he said, "Why?" And Rockefeller replied, "Buy Standard Oil."
他转向天主教神父说:“列侬神父,你有钱吗?”神父被这个问题吓了一跳,说道:“不。”然后他说:“为什么?”洛克菲勒回答说:“购买标准石油。”
Narrator: : As Rockefeller foresaw, the individual Standard Oil companies were worth more than the single corporation.
旁白: 正如洛克菲勒所预见的那样,标准石油公司的个体价值超过了单一公司的价值。
In the next few years, their shares doubled and tripled in value.
在接下来的几年里,他们的股票价值翻了一倍、三倍。
By the time the rain of cash was over, Rockefeller had the greatest personal fortune in history -- nearly two percent of the American economy.
当现金雨结束时,洛克菲勒拥有历史上最大的个人财富——占美国经济的近百分之二。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : And it was really losing the antitrust case that converted John D.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)::正是在反垄断案中败诉才改变了约翰·D·肯尼迪 (John D.
Rockefeller into history's first billionaire.
洛克菲勒成为历史上第一位亿万富翁。
So that Standard Oil was punished in the federal antitrust case, but John D.
以至于标准石油公司在联邦反垄断案中受到了惩罚,但约翰·D·
Rockefeller, Sr. most assuredly was not.
老洛克菲勒肯定不是。
Narrator: : Rockefeller's lucky streak was not over yet.
旁白::洛克菲勒的好运气还没有结束。
Just as the electric light bulb threatened to wipe out the need for kerosene, the automobile appeared.
正当电灯泡威胁要消除对煤油的需求时,汽车出现了。
The market for gasoline sparked euphoria in the oil industry.
汽油市场引发了石油行业的乐观情绪。
Rockefeller's soaring fortunes made it seem as if he had outwitted his critics again.
洛克菲勒财富的飙升让他看起来似乎再次智胜了他的批评者。
Increasingly genial and relaxed, he cast off his business suit and experimented with a variety of wigs.
他变得越来越和蔼、放松,脱掉了西装,尝试了各种假发。
He delighted in the birth of Junior's second son Nelson, born on Senior's birthday.
他对朱尼尔的第二个儿子尼尔森的出生感到高兴,尼尔森出生在高级的生日那天。
Three more boys followed: Laurance, Winthrop and David.
紧随其后的是另外三个男孩:劳伦斯、温思罗普和大卫。
With the furor over Standard Oil subsiding, and the philanthropies launched, Junior was determined to give his children an inheritance they could be proud of.
随着对标准石油公司的愤怒平息,以及慈善事业的启动,朱尼尔决心给他的孩子们一份值得他们自豪的遗产。
But his hopes of redeeming the family name were about to be shattered.
但他挽回家族名誉的希望即将破灭。
Narrator: : In the fall of 1913, beneath the majestic peaks of the Rockies, a labor dispute was engulfing the coal mines of southern Colorado.
旁白: 1913 年秋天,在落基山脉雄伟的山峰下,一场劳资纠纷席卷了科罗拉多州南部的煤矿。
It would engulf the Rockefellers as well, making the family once again the target of national outrage.
它也将席卷洛克菲勒家族,使该家族再次成为全国愤怒的目标。
The explosion came on September 23rd in the foothills near Ludlow.
9月23日,爆炸发生在拉德洛附近的山麓。
Eight thousand miners struck a Rockefeller-owned company, Colorado Fuel and Iron, demanding more humane living and working conditions.
八千名矿工袭击了洛克菲勒旗下的科罗拉多燃料和钢铁公司,要求更人道的生活和工作条件。
CF&I immediately evicted the strikers from their homes.
CF&I 立即将罢工者逐出家中。
Families were forced to move into a makeshift tent colony beyond company grounds.
家人被迫搬进公司场地外的临时帐篷区。
The striking miners came from 32 different countries.
罢工的矿工来自32个不同的国家。
Some thought John D.
有些人认为约翰·D.
Rockefeller was the president of the United States.
洛克菲勒是美国总统。
As both sides braced for a showdown, CF&I brought in gunmen and had them deputized by county sheriffs.
当双方都准备摊牌时,CF&I 聘请了枪手,并由县治安官代理他们。
Union organizers descended upon Colorado, including the fiery Mother Jones, who led a protest on the state's capital.
工会组织者袭击了科罗拉多州,其中包括脾气暴躁的琼斯母亲,她在该州首府领导了一场抗议活动。
In December, four feet of snow fell on southern Colorado.
十二月,科罗拉多州南部降雪四英尺厚。
Twenty thousand men, women, and children shivered on the windswept plain.
两万名男人、女人和孩子在狂风吹拂的平原上瑟瑟发抖。
With no end to the stalemate in sight, John D.
僵局看不到结束的迹象,约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. was summoned to testify before Congress.
小洛克菲勒被传唤到国会作证。
Although he was a company director, he said he knew little of the situation and had put his faith in the managers on the scene.
虽然他是公司董事,但他表示自己对情况了解甚少,对现场的管理人员充满信心。
Then, he declared his faith in the open shop, the right not to join a union.
然后,他宣布了他对开放商店的信仰,以及不加入工会的权利。
An approving Senior rewarded his son with 10,000 shares of CF&I stock.
一位认可的长辈奖励了他的儿子 10,000 股 CF&I 股票。
Albert Berger, Historian: : Senior was no friend of labor unions.
艾伯特·伯杰,历史学家::高级不是工会的朋友。
And Junior goes along without really thinking about it.
朱尼尔没有多想就跟着走了。
Without realizing that it is damaging the men who are working for him, without thinking about what it is doing to those communities, and without realizing what it can do to him.
没有意识到它正在损害为他工作的人,没有考虑它对这些社区做了什么,也没有意识到它会对他造成什么。
Narrator: : On the morning of April 20th, two weeks after Junior's testimony, a company of 35 National Guardsmen stationed themselves on a hill overlooking the tent colony in Ludlow.
旁白:4 月 20 日早上,即朱尼尔作证两周后,一个由 35 名国民警卫队士兵组成的连驻扎在一座小山上,俯瞰勒德洛的帐篷聚居区。
When a shot rang out from an unknown location, the Guardsmen began raking the camp with machine gun fire and a pitched battle began.
当不明地点传来枪声时,卫兵们开始用机枪扫射营地,一场激战开始了。
Trapped families sought shelter from the bullets in dirt bunkers hidden beneath the tents.
被困的家庭在帐篷下方的土坑中寻求庇护以躲避子弹。
The cries of frightened children pierced the din of battle.
孩子们受惊的哭声刺破了战场的喧嚣。
At dusk, when the southbound local rumbled in to Ludlow, families who had been trapped in terror seized the opportunity to escape behind the barrier of 36 freight cars.
黄昏时分,当南行当地人隆隆驶入拉德洛时,陷入恐惧的家庭抓住机会从 36 辆货车的屏障后面逃了出来。
As the train pulled away, the brakeman reported seeing the tent colony engulfed by flames -- lit, he claimed, by the torch of a soldier.
当火车开动时,刹车工报告说看到帐篷群被火焰吞没——他声称是由一名士兵的火把点燃的。
The extent of the tragedy came to light the next morning.
第二天早上,悲剧的严重程度才得以曝光。
In a bunker beneath one of the tents, the bodies of two women and 11 children were discovered.
在其中一顶帐篷下方的掩体中,发现了两名妇女和 11 名儿童的尸体。
The New York Times reported they had suffocated, "like trapped rats...[more] terrified by the bullets which whistled above their heads...than the flames."
《纽约时报》报道称,他们已经窒息而死,“就像被困的老鼠一样……更多的是害怕从头顶呼啸而过的子弹……而不是火焰。”
Accounts differed, but the massacre had claimed at least 24 lives.
虽然说法不一,但这场大屠杀至少夺去了 24 人的生命。
Scores more were injured and burned.
还有数十人受伤和烧伤。
To many, there was no doubt who bore responsibility.
对于许多人来说,毫无疑问谁应该承担责任。
For the first time the full weight of public opinion descended directly upon Junior's shoulders.
公众舆论的全部压力第一次直接落在了朱尼尔的肩上。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : Here was John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者: :这是约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. who was earnestly trying to redeem the family name, who was trying to distance himself from the family's corporate past and all of these unscrupulous actions that his father had been accused of.
小洛克菲勒认真地试图挽回家族名誉,试图与家族企业的过去以及他父亲被指控的所有这些不道德行为保持距离。
And suddenly he's being accused of something far worse than anything that his father had been accused of, which was complicity in the deaths at Ludlow.
突然间,他被指控犯有比他父亲被指控的任何事情都要严重得多的罪名,即参与勒德洛死亡事件。
Narrator: : Angry pickets marched in front of Junior's home and his office at 26 Broadway.
旁白::愤怒的纠察队在朱尼尔位于百老汇 26 号的家和办公室前游行。
Speakers urged mobs to shoot him down like a dog.
演讲者敦促暴徒像狗一样射杀他。
Novelist Upton Sinclair publicly indicted Junior with the charge of murder.
小说家厄普顿·辛克莱公开以谋杀罪起诉朱尼尔。
Radical workers threatened to storm the locked gates of Kykuit .
激进的工人威胁要冲进凯奎特紧锁的大门。
This especially rattled Junior, whose mother, Laura, lay inside the walls close to death.
这尤其让朱尼尔感到不安,他的母亲劳拉躺在墙内,濒临死亡。
Then, a homemade bomb exploded in a tenement, killing four radicals.
随后,一枚自制炸弹在一间公寓内爆炸,炸死四名激进分子。
It was believed to be destined for Junior's townhouse.
人们相信它是为朱尼尔的联排别墅而设计的。
But by December 1914, the miners' relief funds were exhausted.
但到了1914年12月,矿工救济金已经耗尽。
They were forced to return to work.
他们被迫返回工作岗位。
It appeared to many as if management had won.
在许多人看来,管理层似乎赢了。
But not to John D.
但对约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr.
小洛克菲勒
Peter Collier, Biographer: : John D., Jr. saw -- I could have the blood of these people on me and my children for a generation, and to his credit he eventually saw that he had to take a hand not only in cooling out that situation in Colorado, in making it right, but that he had a duty to regularize this unruly, turbulent field of worker relations in America.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:小约翰·D·小约翰看到——我和我的孩子们的血流在我和我的孩子一代人的身上,值得赞扬的是,他最终认识到,他不仅必须出手帮助缓和科罗拉多州的局势,使其恢复正常,而且他有责任规范美国这一不守规矩、动荡的工人关系领域。
Narrator: : One of the first signs of Junior's transformation came when he was summoned to testify before a government commission investigating the strike.
旁白::朱尼尔转变的第一个迹象是当他被传唤到调查罢工的政府委员会作证时。
On his way in, he stopped to shake hands with Mother Jones.
在进去的路上,他停下来与琼斯妈妈握手。
"I have never believed that you knew what those hirelings out there were doing," Mother Jones told him.
“我从来不相信你知道那些雇工在做什么,”琼斯妈妈告诉他。
On the stand, John did something his father never would have done -- publicly admit that he had been wrong.
在证人席上,约翰做了一件他父亲永远不会做的事——公开承认自己错了。
Young Rockefeller then promised to go to Ludlow himself and speak directly with the miners.
年轻的洛克菲勒随后答应亲自去拉德洛并直接与矿工们交谈。
As he was about to make his journey of atonement, his mother died.
当他即将踏上赎罪之旅时,他的母亲去世了。
One of the first sympathy notes came from Mother Jones.
第一份同情信来自琼斯妈妈。
Narrator: : In September 1915, Junior arrived in Ludlow.
旁白: 1915 年 9 月,朱尼尔抵达拉德洛。
He refused to carry a weapon or have bodyguards.
他拒绝携带武器或有保镖。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : He sees the way in which miners lived.
历史学家朱迪思·西兰德 (Judith Sealander)::他看到了矿工的生活方式。
He sees how thin their children are.
他看到他们的孩子有多瘦弱。
He understands that there is no potable drinking water in most of the camps.
他了解到大多数营地没有饮用水。
He, in fact, for someone with a reputation for immense rectitude and shyness, comes out of himself.
事实上,对于一个以极其正直和害羞着称的人来说,他是出于自我。
Narrator: : Preaching a gospel of cooperation and Christian brotherhood, Junior laid out a plan for a panel to address worker grievances.
旁白::为了宣扬合作和基督教兄弟情谊的福音,朱尼尔制定了一项计划,成立一个小组来解决工人的不满。
He also promised the miners they would not be fired if they chose to join a union instead.
他还向矿工们承诺,如果他们选择加入工会,他们不会被解雇。
His approach worked.
他的方法奏效了。
The miners voted for his plan in a secret ballot.
矿工们在无记名投票中投票支持了他的计划。
The usually straitlaced Junior took the hand of a miner's wife and gaily broke into a dance when a four-piece band struck up the Hesitation Waltz.
当四人乐队奏起犹豫华尔兹时,一向拘谨的朱尼尔拉着矿工妻子的手,欢快地跳起了舞。
Bernice Kert, Author: : John's rearing as this child who had to eat plain food and wear plain clothes and be a plain little kid -- he knew how to conduct himself with miners and families who were living in tents and who were living in great deprivation -- he ate the food they had, he sopped up the gravy with his bread.
伯妮斯·克特(Bernice Kert),作者::约翰的成长过程就是这个吃普通食物、穿普通衣服、做一个普通小孩的孩子——他知道如何与住在帐篷里、生活在极度贫困中的矿工和家庭相处——他吃他们有的食物,他用面包吸干肉汁。
It's a wonderful portrait of a man who as it turned out, you kind of see Laura Spelman over his shoulder, realizing that she brought good to this boy as well as repression.
这是一个关于一个男人的精彩肖像,事实证明,你可以看到劳拉·斯佩尔曼在他的肩膀上,意识到她给这个男孩带来了好处,同时也带来了压抑。
Narrator: : Selling the plan to CF&I management was not easy.
旁白: :将计划出售给 CF&I 管理层并不容易。
Junior cashiered the Rockefeller agent on the scene.
朱尼尔在现场解雇了洛克菲勒经纪人。
When his father's advisors protested, he brought in his own team.
当他父亲的顾问提出抗议时,他引入了自己的团队。
Albert Berger, Historian: : When the dust is settled, Junior is running the show.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger)::当尘埃落定后,朱尼尔正在掌控一切。
And his father, by his silence, says "Go ahead." And it is at that point that he really becomes the master of the house.
他的父亲则沉默地说:“继续吧。”也正是从那时起,他才真正成为了这个家的主人。
Senior hasn't transferred all the money to him.
前辈还没有把钱全部转给他。
In fact, it's after he succeeds in minimizing the damage at Ludlow that Senior begins transferring the enormous amounts of money to Junior's name.
事实上,在他成功地将勒德洛的损失降到最低后,西尼尔开始将巨额资金转移到朱尼尔的名下。
Narrator: : "Dear Son: I am giving you 20,000 shares of the stock of the Standard Oil Company, of the capitalization of $30,000,000.
旁白:“亲爱的儿子:我给你 20,000 股标准石油公司的股票,总市值为 30,000,000 美元。
...
...
Go carefully.
小心点。
...
...
Be sure you are right, and then do not be afraid to give out, as your heart prompts you, and as the Lord inspires you.
确保你是对的,然后不要害怕付出,因为你的心会提示你,并且主会激励你。
Dear Son: I am this day giving you the following securities: 60,000 shares of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ...
亲爱的儿子:我今天给你以下证券:60,000股惠灵和伊利湖铁路公司的股票......
Dear Son: I am giving you $65 million dollars of United States government bonds ...
亲爱的儿子:我给你 6500 万美元的美国政府债券......
Affectionately, Father."
深情地,父亲。”
Narrator: : Though Junior thanked his father profusely, years later he revealed darker feelings about his legacy: "I did not choose or seek to be the recipient of [such] wealth," he wrote.
旁白:虽然朱尼尔对他的父亲深表谢意,但多年后,他对自己的遗产透露出了更阴暗的感受:“我没有选择或寻求成为[此类]财富的接受者,”他写道。
"It has not meant the greatest happiness."
“这并不意味着最大的幸福。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He was terrified of receiving all of this money because he knew the pressure and responsibility that went with it.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他害怕收到所有这些钱,因为他知道随之而来的压力和责任。
And it was particularly a source of tension because he had very little self-confidence, so that he was constantly worried that he would fall short of the demands of this great fortune.
这尤其是一个紧张的根源,因为他缺乏自信,所以他总是担心自己会达不到这笔巨额财富的要求。
Narrator: : As a boy, Junior had learned the biblical saying that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
旁白:朱尼尔小时候就知道圣经里有一句话:骆驼穿过针眼比富人进天国还容易。
Steven Rockefeller: : He was deeply troubled by the image of his father as a robber baron and John D., Jr. saw his life's mission as trying to remove the taint that seemed to exist around the Rockefeller wealth, and the Rockefeller family, and the Rockefeller name.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒:他对父亲作为强盗大亨的形象深感不安,小约翰·D·洛克菲勒认为自己一生的使命就是努力消除洛克菲勒财富、洛克菲勒家族和洛克菲勒名字周围似乎存在的污点。
Narrator: : Years before, Senior had been warned that his vast wealth, like an avalanche, could crush him and his children and his children's children.
旁白::多年前,老先生就被警告说,他庞大的财富,就像雪崩一样,可能会压垮他和他的孩子以及孩子的孩子。
Now his son Junior faced that danger.
现在他的儿子朱尼尔面临着危险。
As he drove himself mercilessly to redeem the family name, the weight of the Rockefeller fortune would threaten to overwhelm him.
当他无情地驱使自己挽回家族名誉时,洛克菲勒财富的重量可能会压倒他。
Narrator: : April 20, 1914, Ludlow, Colorado.
旁白:1914 年 4 月 20 日,科罗拉多州勒德洛。
Bullets fired by National Guardsmen raked the tents of striking workers and their families at a coal mine owned by the Rockefellers.
国民警卫队发射的子弹扫过洛克菲勒家族煤矿罢工工人及其家人的帐篷。
No one knows exactly how many men women and children died that day.
没有人确切知道那天有多少男女和儿童死亡。
It was called the Ludlow Massacre.
这就是所谓的勒德洛大屠杀。
John D.
约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr., the man held responsible, looked to the future with great anxiety.
对此负有责任的小洛克菲勒展望未来充满了焦虑。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : If you had told anybody in the United States, that the Rockefeller family would some day be synonymous with good deeds rather than corporate rapacity, they would never have believed you.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺:如果你告诉美国任何人,洛克菲勒家族有一天会成为善行而不是企业贪婪的代名词,他们永远不会相信你。
I think Junior sacrificed himself to redeem the family name.
我认为朱尼尔牺牲了自己来挽回家族名誉。
Narrator: : He created a remarkable family.
旁白::他创建了一个非凡的家庭。
His five sons scaled the heights of the American century.
他的五个儿子登上了美国世纪的顶峰。
John D.
约翰·D.
Rockefeller IV: : They were at the center of everything, business life, political life.
洛克菲勒四世::他们是一切事物的中心,包括商业生活、政治生活。
They were in the middle of it.
他们正处于其中。
That's exactly where they wanted to be and they loved it.
这正是他们想要的地方并且他们喜欢它。
Narrator: : One reached highest, but his careless ambition helped rekindle public suspicion of the Rockefellers’ wealth and power.
旁白::一位达到了最高境界,但他粗心的野心重新激起了公众对洛克菲勒家族财富和权力的怀疑。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : This is a man who is going to fly Icarus-like across the, American political frontier and he's going to have Icarus-like, a dramatic fall, and he's going to take the family down with him
传记作者彼得·科利尔:这是一个将像伊卡洛斯一样飞越美国政治前沿的人,他将像伊卡洛斯一样戏剧性地坠落,他将带着家人一起倒下
Narrator: : At Pocantico Hills, the family estate on the Hudson River, the grandchildren of John D.
旁白:约翰·D·肯尼迪 (John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., the world's first billionaire, inhabited a world of their own.
老洛克菲勒是世界上第一位亿万富翁,他拥有自己的世界。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : This is not just an estate.
传记作者彼得·科利尔::这不仅仅是一个庄园。
This is a place that's 10 times the size of Monaco, that's five times the size of Central Park.
这个地方的面积是摩纳哥的十倍,是中央公园的五倍。
This is like a country in the midst of America.
这就像美国中部的一个国家。
It's their mythic place, and it's their native land.
这是他们的神话之地,也是他们的故乡。
Narrator: : A third generation of Rockefellers grew up surrounded by a splendor few could imagine: free to enjoy the fruits of the family’s unparalleled wealth, but not free of the stain of Standard Oil and the wound it had inflicted on their father.
旁白:洛克菲勒家族的第三代在很少人能想象的辉煌环境中长大:可以自由地享受家族无与伦比的财富果实,但也无法摆脱标准石油公司的污点及其给他们的父亲造成的创伤。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : John D.
罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow),传记作者:约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. always felt that he had to be a figure of granite rectitude.
小洛克菲勒总是觉得自己必须是一个正直的人。
He had to be somebody beyond reproach and his children had to be model children because he had grown up in a situation where he felt the whole world was watching him and so he assumed that the whole world was watching his children in exactly the same critical spirit.
他必须成为无可非议的人,他的孩子们必须成为模范孩子,因为他是在他觉得全世界都在注视着他的环境中长大的,所以他认为全世界都在以完全相同的批判精神注视着他的孩子。
And I think this really took its toll.
我认为这确实造成了损失。
It made him a very tense and rigid man.
这使他成为一个非常紧张和僵化的人。
It made him a very exacting and even tyrannical father.
这使他成为一个非常严格甚至专制的父亲。
Albert Schenkel: : His strict sense of morality was maintained from his Protestant upbringing.
阿尔伯特·申克尔(Albert Schenkel):他严格的道德观念是从他的新教教养中保持下来的。
Junior continued to pray daily, to insist that his children pray with him daily, to insist that his children memorize Bible verses, and to insist that there was a vital sense of connection with God in his own life and in the life of his family.
朱尼尔继续每天祈祷,坚持让他的孩子们每天和他一起祈祷,坚持让他的孩子们记住圣经经文,并坚持在他自己的生活和家人的生活中与上帝有一种至关重要的联系。
Laurance Rockefeller: : The Christian heritage, daily prayers, you see, learning bible verses, so we were saturated in the traditions of the Christian ethics.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒:基督教的传统,每天的祈祷,你看,学习圣经经文,所以我们沉浸在基督教道德的传统中。
We used to go around in a circle saying verses to see how long we could stay in.
我们常常围成一圈念诵经文,看看我们能呆多久。
Of course the one, the Bible verse that Father so emphasized, "Unto he who much is given, much is required," that was almost like our flag.
当然,父亲如此强调的圣经经文:“给予多的人,要求的也多”,这几乎就像我们的旗帜。
Narrator: : Junior wanted his daughter Babs and his five sons, John, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David, to practice sobriety, and value diligence and thrift -- the virtues of his own Baptist youth.
旁白:朱尼尔希望他的女儿巴布斯和他的五个儿子约翰、纳尔逊、劳伦斯、温思罗普和大卫能够保持清醒,并重视勤奋和节俭——这是他自己的浸信会青年的美德。
The children were paid for household chores -- shining shoes, catching mice, growing vegetables.
孩子们有报酬做家务——擦鞋、抓老鼠、种菜。
Cooking dinner was their responsibility once a week.
他们的责任是每周一次做饭。
"I was always afraid money would spoil my children," Junior once said, "and I wanted them to know its value and not to waste it." In keeping with family tradition, the Rockefeller children kept account of their income and expenses to the penny.
“我总是担心金钱会宠坏我的孩子,”朱尼尔曾经说过,“我希望他们知道金钱的价值,而不是浪费它。”按照家族传统,洛克菲勒家族的孩子们将他们的收入和支出精确到便士。
David Rockefeller, Sr.: : He felt it was important to appreciate the value of money and that he didn't have an unlimited amount, certainly we didn't, he gave us rather modest allowances.
老大卫·洛克菲勒:他觉得欣赏金钱的价值很重要,他没有无限的金额,当然我们也没有,他给了我们相当适度的津贴。
But he felt it was important to know where it went and therefore we had to put down what we received and what we spent.
但他觉得知道钱去哪儿了很重要,因此我们必须记下我们收到的钱和花掉的钱。
And each week we would add up both columns and take cash out of our pocket and see whether what we had was what we should have according to what was reported."
每周我们都会将这两列相加,并从口袋里掏出现金,看看我们拥有的是否是根据报道的内容我们应该拥有的。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : That little book was kind of like a keyhole through their father could see everything that they were doing and how they were living their lives.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::那本小书有点像一个钥匙孔,通过他们的父亲可以看到他们所做的一切以及他们如何生活。
And there was the whole week's activities laid out for his approval or his disapproval.
整整一周的活动都是为了他的批准或不批准而安排的。
Peter Johnson: : With some of them he had much greater success than with others.
彼得·约翰逊::他在其中一些项目上取得了比其他项目更大的成功。
John III accepted this and followed through on it very strongly.
约翰三世接受了这一点,并坚决贯彻执行。
Nelson seems to have had a great deal more difficulty doing this.
纳尔逊似乎在这方面遇到了更大的困难。
Narrator: : Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, the irrepressible second son, organized his brothers in all manner of activities.
旁白:纳尔逊·奥尔德里奇·洛克菲勒,这位无法抑制的二儿子,组织了他的兄弟们进行各种各样的活动。
Especially those which supplemented his weekly allowance.
尤其是那些补充他每周津贴的。
Laurance Rockefeller: : We all had our first venture capital by borrowing engaged couples, meaning rabbits, from the Rockefeller Institute and then they would have a family and then we'd sell the young back to the Institute for 50 cents a piece.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒:我们都是通过从洛克菲勒研究所借来订婚的夫妇(即兔子)获得第一笔风险投资,然后他们就会组建家庭,然后我们以每只 50 美分的价格将幼崽卖回研究所。
The culmination was one day mother had a muff and she put a rabbit in her muff, then it was peaking out to us.
最高潮是有一天,妈妈有一个手筒,她在手筒里放了一只兔子,然后它就出现在我们面前。
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You know that really made her a folk hero.
你知道这确实让她成为了民间英雄。
Bernice Kert, Author: : She was the one who liberalized everything.
伯妮斯·科特 (Bernice Kert),作者::她是让一切自由化的人。
She really was the buffer who tried to help them understand their father and she was much more available.
她确实是试图帮助他们理解父亲的缓冲者,而且她更愿意帮助他们。
She read to the children, she was concerned about their them.
她给孩子们读书,她关心他们。
I think her contribution was pivotal.
我认为她的贡献至关重要。
Narrator: : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller often found herself torn between her devotion to her children and the demands of her husband.
旁白:艾比·奥尔德里奇·洛克菲勒经常发现自己在对孩子的奉献和丈夫的要求之间左右为难。
David Rockefeller, Sr: : He loved driving horses and they routinely would go out for a drive every afternoon.
老大卫·洛克菲勒:他喜欢骑马,他们每天下午都会出去兜风。
And father seemed pained and grieved if she would insist upon doing things with the children rather than with him, when we would go off and see a play or visit a museum or some object or something that we were interested in.
当我们去看一场戏剧或参观博物馆或一些我们感兴趣的物品或其他东西时,如果她坚持与孩子们而不是与他一起做事,父亲似乎会感到痛苦和悲伤。
It was not a terrible emotional strain, but the tension certainly existed and I think we were certainly aware of it.
这并不是一种可怕的情绪紧张,但紧张确实存在,我想我们当然意识到了这一点。
Narrator: : Golf House, Lakewood, New Jersey July 10, 1918
旁白::高尔夫球场,新泽西州莱克伍德,1918 年 7 月 10 日
Dear Son: I am giving you one hundred and sixty six thousand seventy two (166,072) shares of the stock of the Standard Oil Company of California.
亲爱的儿子: 我给你十六万六千七十二(166,072)股加利福尼亚标准石油公司的股票。
I have directed the office to have this stock transferred to you.
我已指示办公室将此股票转让给您。
Affectionately, Father
深情地,父亲
Kijkuit Pocantico Hills New York December 15, 1920
Kijkuit Pocantico Hills 纽约 1920 年 12 月 15 日
Dear Son: I am today giving you twenty million six hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars ( $20, 688,000) par value in bonds of the State of New York and Corporate Stock of the City of New York, and directing Mr. Carey to transfer and deliver the same to you.
亲爱的儿子:我今天给您面值两千万美元(20, 688,000 美元)的纽约州债券和纽约市公司股票,并指示凯里先生将其转让并交付给您。
Affectionately, Father
深情地,父亲
Kijkuit Pocantico Hills New York October 22, 1920
Kijkuit Pocantico Hills 纽约 1920 年 10 月 22 日
Dear Son: I am giving you a check for five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).
亲爱的儿子:我给你一张五十万美元($500,000)的支票。
It will be available for use on Monday next.
下周一即可使用。
Affectionately, Father
深情地,父亲
Narrator: : By the early 1920s, Senior had turned over half a billion dollars in assets and securities to his son.
旁白: : 到 1920 年代初期,Senior 已将 5 亿美元的资产和证券交给了他的儿子。
And with it a heavy responsibility: The stewardship of the great fortune.
随之而来的是沉重的责任:管理巨大的财富。
"I am indeed blessed beyond measure to have a son whom I can trust to do this most important work.
“我确实非常幸运,有一个我可以信任的儿子来完成这项最重要的工作。
Go carefully.
小心点。
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Be sure you are right ...
确定你是对的...
Steven Rockefeller: : John D., Jr. saw his life's mission as trying to remove the taint that seemed to exist around the Rockefeller wealth, and in many ways through his philanthropy trying to finally justify the accumulation of this great fortune.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒:小约翰·D., Jr. 认为他一生的使命是努力消除洛克菲勒财富周围似乎存在的污点,并在许多方面通过他的慈善事业试图最终证明这一巨大财富的积累是合理的。
Narrator: Whether restoring the palace of Versailles, saving the Giant Redwoods in California, or founding a medical college in China, Junior was consumed by his work.
旁白:无论是修复凡尔赛宫、拯救加州大红杉,还是在中国创办一所医学院,朱尼尔都沉浸在自己的工作中。
Asked by a reporter where her husband was, Abby Rockefeller replied, " I don’t know where John is anymore....I'm sure he's out...somewhere...saving the world..."
当记者问她丈夫在哪里时,艾比·洛克菲勒回答说:“我不知道约翰在哪里了……我确信他在……某个地方……正在拯救世界……”
Peter Collier, Biographer: : He can invest in a profound way with this money and he can in some sense be a Titan in the same way that his father was.
传记作者彼得·科利尔::他可以用这笔钱进行深远的投资,从某种意义上说,他可以像他父亲一样成为泰坦。
He with associates invested in every avenue: medicine, science, education, the arts, foreign policy.
他和同事们投资于各个领域:医学、科学、教育、艺术、外交政策。
Narrator: : The pressure proved too much for Junior.
旁白::事实证明,朱尼尔的压力太大了。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : Very often he would come home at the end of the day with a throbbing migraine headache and he would lie down in the darkened bedroom with a compress on his forehead.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他经常在一天结束时带着阵阵偏头痛回到家,然后躺在黑暗的卧室里,额头上敷上一块布。
He was really putting himself on the line in a courageous and personal fashion.
他确实以一种勇敢和个人的方式将自己置于危险之中。
Narrator: : His headaches became so incapacitating that he was forced to take a rest cure at Dr. Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, where he was diagnosed with over-exertion.
旁白:他的头痛变得非常严重,以至于他被迫在密歇根州凯洛格医生的巴特尔克里克疗养院接受休息治疗,在那里他被诊断出过度劳累。
While the son sacrificed himself to redeem the father, the father seemed remarkably at ease.
当儿子牺牲自己来救赎父亲时,父亲却显得异常轻松。
Long away from business and free of the burden of the great fortune, John D.
约翰·D·约翰 (John D.
Rockefeller, now in his mid-80s, settled into his retirement.
洛克菲勒现年 80 多岁,即将退休。
In his old age, Senior showed the world a side of himself only those who knew him best had ever glimpsed, as the former recluse played up to the movie cameras.
在晚年,老先生向世界展示了只有那些最了解他的人才能瞥见的自己的一面,就像这位前隐士在电影摄影机前的表演一样。
Through the magic of public relations, John D.
通过公共关系的魔力,约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Sr. was transformed from a reviled robber baron into a genial old man, famous for dispensing dimes.
老洛克菲勒从一个被辱骂的强盗大亨变成了一个和蔼可亲的老人,以分配一毛钱而闻名。
Every day he appeared at the golf course at 12 past 12 to indulge in his favorite past-time.
他每天12点12分出现在高尔夫球场,享受他最喜欢的消遣时光。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He’s gay, he’s lively, he’s jaunty.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他是同性恋,他很活泼,他很高兴。
He flirts with pretty young women, he loves to sing hymns, tell corny jokes, and mimic people.
他和漂亮的年轻女子调情,喜欢唱赞美诗、讲老掉牙的笑话和模仿别人。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : He'd spend his mornings working on the stock market and then he would go off and golf or ride around in a car in the afternoon, but always with women or children along.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家:他早上会在股票市场上工作,然后下午去打高尔夫球或开车兜风,但总是和妇女或孩子一起。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : Everybody notices that he's fascinated with women.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::每个人都注意到他对女性着迷。
If he meets a group of pretty young women, he will invite them to play golf or come to lunch.
如果他遇到一群漂亮的年轻女性,他会邀请她们打高尔夫球或来吃午饭。
One of his many rituals was that every afternoon at 3:15 he and eight to 10 other people would take a drive in the country.
他的众多仪式之一是每天下午 3 点 15 分,他和其他 8 到 10 个人会开车去乡下兜风。
And John D.
还有约翰·D.
always sat in the middle of the back seat and he preferred to have a buxom lady on his right and one to his left.
他总是坐在后座的中间,他更喜欢在他的右边和左边各有一位丰满的女士。
He would then take a blanket and he would draw the blanket up to their chins and then his hands would be straying underneath.
然后他会拿一条毯子,把毯子拉到他们的下巴上,然后他的手会伸到下面。
The back seat became known as the "hot seat.
后座被称为“热座”。
And there is a recorded episode of a young woman jumping out of the hot seat, running back to the second car, and telling the driver, "That old rooster oughta be handcuffed!" So he developed a reputation for these wandering hands.
还有一段录制的片段,一位年轻女子从炎热的座位上跳出来,跑回第二节车厢,告诉司机:“那只老公鸡应该被戴上手铐!”因此,他因这些流浪的手而闻名。
And this behavior, to people who had known him earlier, seemed completely out of character.
而这种行为,对于早先认识他的人来说,似乎完全不符合他的性格。
Narrator: : "Dearest papa, This is going to be the hardest letter I’ve ever had to write..."
旁白::“最亲爱的爸爸,这将是我写过的最难的信……”
In 1922, while still at Battle Creek Sanitarium, Junior received a disturbing letter.
1922 年,当朱尼尔还在巴特尔克里克疗养院时,他收到了一封令人不安的信。
"I’ve smoked ...
“我抽烟了...
I was 10 million kinds of a fool to do it but now that it’s done there is nothing left for me to do but tell you about it...
我这么做真是一千万种傻瓜,但现在它已经完成了,除了告诉你这件事之外,我别无他法……
Your loving daughter Babs."
你可爱的女儿巴布斯。”
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : John D., Jr. managed to create an atmosphere of fear that had a powerful effect on the children.
传记作者罗恩·切尔诺 (Ron Chernow)::小约翰 D., Jr. 设法营造了一种恐惧气氛,对孩子们产生了强大的影响。
He had promised them all $2,500 if they didn't smoke until the age of 21, and Babs, the one daughter, when she was 19, sat down and wrote this anguished letter confessing that she had smoked a cigarette, and you would think reading the letter that she was confessing to capital crimes rather than having smoked a cigarette.
他向他们承诺,如果他们在 21 岁之前不吸烟,就给他们 2,500 美元,而独生女儿巴布斯 (Babs) 在 19 岁时,坐下来写下了这封痛苦的信,承认自己吸过烟,读这封信时你会认为她是在承认死罪,而不是吸过烟。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : He could be, from her point of view, really cruelly demanding, and for example, he would show her his report card as proof of how she's supposed to improve over time and be a better performer in school.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家::从她的角度来看,他的要求可能非常残酷,例如,他会向她展示他的成绩单,作为她应该如何随着时间的推移而进步并在学校表现更好的证据。
And so he demanded a level of impeccable behavior from her that was very unrealistic.
所以他要求她表现得无可挑剔,这是非常不现实的。
Bernice Kert, Author: : When she got to be a young woman, she really wanted to just be free of the Rockefeller burden, and she was a fun-loving woman, young 19-year-old who loved gaiety and parties, and she experimented with drinking and smoking, and the more he tried to control her, the more she resisted.
伯妮斯·克特(Bernice Kert),作者:当她成为一名年轻女性时,她真的很想摆脱洛克菲勒的负担,她是一个爱玩的女人,19岁的年轻女孩,喜欢欢乐和派对,她尝试喝酒和抽烟,他越想控制她,她就越抗拒。
Narrator: : Babs escaped her father's control by marrying at an early age.
旁白::巴布斯早年结婚,逃离了父亲的控制。
Her brothers, eager to embrace the new freedoms of the Roaring '20s, continued to struggle within Junior’s sphere.
她的兄弟们渴望拥抱咆哮的 20 年代的新自由,继续在朱尼尔的领域内奋斗。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : The brothers really grew up feeling differently about their father than John, Jr., had felt about his.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:兄弟俩在成长过程中对父亲的感觉与小约翰对父亲的感觉确实不同。
John, Jr., had felt that he had to justify his behavior in terms of his father's approval.
小约翰觉得他必须用父亲的认可来证明自己的行为合理。
For the third generation, they were, ah, mainly, I think, worried about how they would evade some of the strictures of John, Jr., how they would act like modern young teenagers, not like kind of young ministers out of a George Eliot novel, which is how he would have had them, them act, and there was a kind of constant sort of subterranean rebellion.
对于第三代,我想,他们主要是担心如何逃避小约翰的一些限制,如何像现代的年轻青少年一样行事,而不是像乔治·艾略特小说中的年轻牧师那样,而这正是他希望他们、他们的行为方式,并且有一种持续不断的地下叛逆。
Laurance Rockefeller: : All young people rebel, but I perhaps had more to rebel against.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒::所有年轻人都会反抗,但我可能有更多的人要反抗。
Not that it was bad, but it was so much superimposed and restricting, and in a way limiting freedom of thought and action.
并不是说它不好,而是它太多的叠加和限制,并在某种程度上限制了思想和行动的自由。
Narrator: : Even John the most compliant among the brothers would later complain: "Father always has his own way, He is so wonderfully broad in business relations but so narrow in some of his family details."
旁白:即使是兄弟中最顺从的约翰后来也会抱怨:“父亲总是我行我素,他在商业关系上是如此宽广,但在一些家庭细节上却如此狭隘。”
As the first son and bearer of the family name John D.
作为约翰·D·约翰 (John D.) 姓氏的长子和继承人。
Rockefeller III, a serious and introverted boy, was, from an early age cast in the mold of dynastic heir.
洛克菲勒三世是一个严肃而内向的男孩,从小就被塑造成王朝继承人的形象。
Peter Johnson: : His grandfather would write him at his birthday and Christmas time, and say things like, "I look forward to when you can join your father in helping to carry the heavy burden," and so on.
彼得·约翰逊:他的祖父会在他生日和圣诞节的时候给他写信,说一些诸如“我期待着你什么时候能和你父亲一起分担重担”之类的话。
So John grew up that had been delimited for him.
所以约翰长大了,这是为他划定的。
There was not an awful lot of choice for John.
约翰没有太多选择。
Narrator: : In 1929, fresh out of Princeton, John arrived at New York's most famous business address to take his assigned place helping to run the family businesses and philanthropies.
旁白: 1929 年,刚从普林斯顿大学毕业的约翰来到纽约最著名的商业地址,接任他指定的职务,帮助经营家族企业和慈善事业。
The debut of the world’s richest heir attracted so much attention that Junior decided to hold a press conference.
这位世界首富继承人的亮相引起了如此多的关注,朱尼尔决定召开新闻发布会。
Peter Johnson: : John comes in, shy, reserved, uncertain; he's never done this kind of thing before, and is questioned by all of the assembled New York City press corps.
彼得·约翰逊:约翰进来了,害羞、保守、犹豫不决;他以前从未做过这种事,因此受到了纽约市所有记者团的质疑。
They were all barking questions at him and to get underneath, and John progressively withdrew as the press conference went on.
他们都在向他大声提问,并试图掩盖真相,随着新闻发布会的进行,约翰逐渐退出。
One of the reporters wrote about him, sort of, crossing his legs and trying to twist attempting himself into a pretzel.
一位记者在报道中描述了他,有点跷着二郎腿,试图把自己扭成椒盐卷饼。
And I think began to view his role as, "This is very serious, I'm burdened, I'm afraid of making a mistake." And I think it was a very, very difficult moment in his life.
我认为他开始将自己的角色视为“这非常严重,我有负担,我害怕犯错误。”我认为这是他一生中非常非常困难的时刻。
Narrator: : At the end of the painful ordeal John confided to his diary: "Must get out of the papers for a long time now."
旁白::在痛苦的磨难结束时,约翰在日记中吐露道:“现在必须远离报纸很长一段时间了。”
The year after John's debut at 26 Broadway his younger brother Nelson appeared on just about every national newspaper front page, the beaming groom in high society’s wedding of the season.
约翰在百老汇 26 号首次亮相的第二年,他的弟弟尼尔森几乎出现在所有全国性报纸的头版上,他是本季上流社会婚礼上喜气洋洋的新郎。
Six days out of Dartmouth, despite his father’s concern that he was acting impetuously, he married Mary Todhunter Clark, from a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia family.
离开达特茅斯六天后,尽管父亲担心他行事鲁莽,他还是与来自费城主线富裕家庭的玛丽·托德亨特·克拉克结婚。
Nelson took his wife, "Tod," on a nine-month trip around the world.
尼尔森带着他的妻子“托德”进行了为期九个月的环球旅行。
More than a honeymoon, the trip was a grand tour to the far reaches of the former Standard Oil empire.
这次旅行不仅仅是一次蜜月,更是一次前往前标准石油帝国遥远地区的盛大旅行。
Shortly after their return "Tod" gave birth to John D.
他们回来后不久,“托德”生下了约翰·D·托德。
Rockefeller’s first great grandson, Rodman Clark.
洛克菲勒的第一个曾孙罗德曼·克拉克。
Nelson wasted no time in arranging for the appropriate four-generation photo.
纳尔逊立即安排了合适的四代人合影。
It was a moment of great symbolic importance.
这是一个具有重大象征意义的时刻。
The ebullient and energetic second son had all but declared his intentions to supplant his older brother as dynastic heir.
这位热情洋溢、精力充沛的次子几乎宣布了他打算取代他的哥哥成为王朝继承人的意图。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : There's a kind of silent coup that takes place in the third generation with Nelson, and it's silent only because it's consensual.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:纳尔逊的第三代发生了一种无声的政变,它之所以无声只是因为它是双方同意的。
Everybody in that generation, including in a sense John D.
那一代人的每个人,在某种意义上包括约翰·D.
III, recognizes that Nelson is the most likely to succeed, that there's something about this young man that is just different from the rest of them.
III,认识到纳尔逊是最有可能成功的人,这个年轻人有一些与其他人不同的地方。
Narrator: : In 1929, Junior was putting the final touches on The Riverside Church, a magnificent structure he had erected on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
旁白: 1929 年,朱尼尔正在对河滨教堂进行最后的润色,这是他在曼哈顿上西区建造的一座宏伟建筑。
Built on a monumental scale, Riverside resembled Europe's great cathedrals, but only in its architecture.
里弗赛德的建筑规模宏大,与欧洲伟大的大教堂相似,但仅限于其建筑风格。
Albert Berger, Historian: : It certainly harks back to a Gothic cathedral, but as statues of saints and martyrs are placed around traditional cathedrals, there are statues of scientists and law givers, there's even a statue of Darwin in Riverside Church.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰(Albert Berger)::它确实让人想起哥特式大教堂,但正如传统大教堂周围放置了圣人和烈士的雕像一样,这里也有科学家和立法者的雕像,河滨教堂甚至还有达尔文的雕像。
Now, that's a statement.
现在,这是一个声明。
Narrator: : While he remained committed to the faith of his mother and grandmother, Junior had come to believe that scientific progress was an expression of God's will and the means to create God's kingdom on earth.
旁白::虽然朱尼尔仍然忠于母亲和祖母的信仰,但他开始相信科学进步是上帝意志的表达,也是在地球上创建上帝王国的手段。
Albert Schenkel: : This is what Junior embodies, both the old and the new.
Albert Schenkel:这就是 Junior 所体现的,无论是新的还是旧的。
The old revivalist impulse to reform the world and the new measures that are coming out of science and business.
改革世界的古老复兴主义冲动以及来自科学和商业的新措施。
And so businesslike efficiency and scientific research become the new means, the new tools for achieving the
因此,务实的效率和科学研究成为实现目标的新手段、新工具。
Narrator: : Christian fundamentalists in the 1920s saw Junior's embrace of science as a rejection of the Bible's teachings.
旁白::20 年代的基督教原教旨主义者认为朱尼尔对科学的拥护是对圣经教义的拒绝。
They worried that the richest man in the world, was extending his influence into the religious realm.
他们担心世界上最富有的人正在将他的影响力扩展到宗教领域。
One preacher put it in apocalyptic terms: "When one man can control the financial world, the educational world, and practically the religious world, the day of the Anti-Christ is not far behind."
一位传教士用世界末日的术语说道:“当一个人能够控制金融世界、教育世界,甚至宗教世界时,敌基督的日子就离我们不远了。”
By now the Rockefeller fortune was estimated at one billion dollars -- invested not only in the companies that once made up Standard Oil abut also in banking and in new industries.
到目前为止,洛克菲勒的财富估计已达 10 亿美元——不仅投资于曾经组成标准石油公司的公司,还投资于银行业和新兴行业。
Armed with his vast wealth, Junior had become as formidable a philanthropist as his father had been a businessman.
凭借巨额财富,朱尼尔成为了一位令人敬畏的慈善家,就像他的父亲是一位商人一样。
Sometimes he even employed similar tactics.
有时他甚至采用类似的策略。
Laurance Rockefeller: : Father had this great love and joy in opening up wherever he was whether it was Maine or Tarrytown or Wyoming the beauty of nature so people could see it.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒:父亲怀着极大的爱和喜悦,无论他身在何处,无论是缅因州、塔里敦还是怀俄明州,他都会向人们展示自然之美,让人们能够看到它。
He took us on voyages to see America.
他带我们去美国旅行。
We were camping, and building log cabins and riding horseback, and we were hiking, and then Nelson and I were avid photographers so we were taking pictures and looking for the best view wherever we went.
我们露营、建造小木屋、骑马、徒步旅行,尼尔森和我都是狂热的摄影师,所以我们无论走到哪里都在拍照并寻找最好的景色。
Narrator: : During a family trip to Wyoming, Junior was awed by the majestic Teton Mountains.
旁白::在一次去怀俄明州的家庭旅行中,朱尼尔对雄伟的提顿山脉感到敬畏。
Their beauty, he said "surpassed anything he had ever beheld." What he saw below, in the town of Jackson Hole, dismayed him.
他说,它们的美丽“超过了他所见过的任何东西”。他在下面的杰克逊霍尔镇所看到的一切让他感到沮丧。
David Rockefeller: : He saw the honky tonks and newsstands and so on that were being put in the view of the beautiful Teton Mountains and that persuaded him to buy the land and give that to what is now a part of Grand Teton National Park.
大卫·洛克菲勒:他看到了在美丽的提顿山脉的视野中的小酒馆和报摊等,这说服了他购买这块土地并将其捐献给现在大提顿国家公园的一部分。
Judith Sealander, Historian: : Junior probably spent somewhere around $13 million in acquiring land around Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
历史学家朱迪思·西兰德 (Judith Sealander)::朱尼尔可能花费了大约 1300 万美元购买怀俄明州杰克逊霍尔周围的土地。
Initially, as did most of the Rockefellers, he bought that through a cover company, nothing surprising.
最初,和大多数洛克菲勒家族的人一样,他通过一家掩护公司购买了它,这并不奇怪。
Any time the Rockefeller name got involved, prices skyrocketed.
每当洛克菲勒这个名字介入时,价格就会飙升。
Nothing illegal about it, though probably he got some extra-special help from the Park Service identifying acreage.
这并不违法,尽管他可能从公园管理局获得了一些额外的特殊帮助来确定面积。
Albert Berger, Historian: : The way Junior acquired the Grand Tetons was a substantial use of power.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger)::朱尼奥获得大提顿山脉的方式是对权力的大量使用。
And in that sense the philanthropic impulse is not necessarily different from Standard Oil.
从这个意义上说,慈善冲动与标准石油公司并没有必然的不同。
Remember, Senior thought that Standard Oil was not just a profit-making corporation, but way of making the world a better place.
请记住,西尼尔认为标准石油公司不仅仅是一家盈利公司,而且是让世界变得更美好的方式。
Junior's not-for-profit corporation was no different in that regard.
朱尼尔的非营利公司在这方面也不例外。
Narrator: : Like the independent refiners crushed by Standard Oil, local businessmen were outraged.
旁白::就像被标准石油公司压垮的独立炼油厂一样,当地商人也感到愤怒。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : He encountered tremendous opposition and resentment.
罗恩·切尔诺(Ron Chernow),传记作者::他遇到了巨大的反对和怨恨。
There were dude ranch operators and local cattlemen and ranchers who felt that these were rich folks from Back East, who were throwing their weight around and trying to ruin their way of life, and they didn't see it as a gift, they saw it as this rich family that was pushing them around, and it was a protracted battle.
有一些牧场主、当地的牧民和牧场主,他们觉得这些都是来自后东部的富人,他们到处施压,试图毁掉他们的生活方式,他们并不认为这是一份礼物,他们认为这是这个富有的家庭在摆布他们,这是一场旷日持久的战斗。
Albert Berger, Historian: : That park is beautiful, but it was developed in the way it was because Junior thought that's the way it ought to be and he had the money and the contacts to make it happen.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger):那个公园很漂亮,但它是按照原来的方式开发的,因为朱尼尔认为它应该是这样的,而且他有钱和人脉来实现它。
Narrator: : For Junior, preservation provided an escape from a modern world which he found uncomfortable.
旁白:对于朱尼尔来说,保护提供了逃离他感到不舒服的现代世界的机会。
At Williamsburg, he spent 55 million dollars to restore Virginia's colonial capital to an idealized version of the past.
在威廉斯堡,他花费了 5500 万美元将弗吉尼亚殖民地首府恢复到过去的理想状态。
At The Cloisters, a museum on the northern tip of Manhattan, he created a medieval retreat -- and filled it with ancient treasures.
在曼哈顿北端的回廊博物馆,他创建了一个中世纪的隐居处,并在里面摆满了古代宝藏。
Albert Berger, Historian: : Junior's interest in art went backwards.
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰 (Albert Berger)::少年对艺术的兴趣倒退了。
He was interested in older art, historical art, and certainly that is what The Cloisters displays beautifully.
他对古老的艺术、历史艺术很感兴趣,当然这也是《回廊》所展示的精美内容。
But while Junior sought peace in the old, his wife Abby, found excitement in the new.
然而,当朱尼尔在旧事物中寻求平静时,他的妻子艾比却在新事物中找到了兴奋。
Bernice Kert, Author: : She was attracted by the unusual, adventurous, inner directed art.
伯妮斯·科特 (Bernice Kert),作者: :她被不寻常的、冒险的、内在导向的艺术所吸引。
She liked experimentation, she was open to new ideas, and also she wanted to understand the art that her children would grow up to understand.
她喜欢尝试,乐于接受新想法,而且她想了解她的孩子长大后才能理解的艺术。
In other words, she wanted to be a modern.
换句话说,她想成为一个现代人。
David Rockefeller, Sr: : Mother liked beauty whereever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.
老大卫·洛克菲勒:母亲喜欢任何她发现美的地方,她在许多不同的地方找到了它,无论是在大自然中还是在当代艺术中。
And that's where they pretty much parted company.
这就是他们几乎分手的地方。
Father ...
父亲...
anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
任何抽象的东西对他来说自然都不是很好。
Bernice Kert, Author: : He felt it was self-indulgent, he didn't understand it, he thought it was ugly and unpleasant and disturbing.
Bernice Kert,作者::他觉得这是自我放纵,他不理解,他认为这是丑陋、不愉快和令人不安的。
And he didn't ...
而他并没有...
it was, I guess, very difficult for him to realize that this woman that he loved so, and was so devoted to, and had been such a partner to him, would go out and support something that he didn't approve of.
我想,他很难意识到这个他如此爱、如此忠诚、一直是他的伴侣的女人会出去支持他不赞成的事情。
David Rockefeller: : We had a great big house at 10 West 54th Street, and because father didn’t want her modern art as he would call it, around, she took over the seventh floor of the house.
大卫·洛克菲勒:我们在西 54 街 10 号有一栋很大的房子,因为父亲不想要她的现代艺术(他称之为现代艺术),所以她占据了房子的七楼。
It had nine stories.
它有九个故事。
She built an art gallery.
她建了一个美术馆。
Narrator: : Abby spent her own money to build an art collection.
旁白::艾比用自己的钱建立了一个艺术收藏品。
But she needed her husband's millions to realize her vision: the creation of a Museum of Contemporary Art.
但她需要丈夫的数百万美元来实现她的愿景:创建一座当代艺术博物馆。
And Junior, after a lifelong struggle for Abby's attention, was not about to pay for a museum he knew would take his wife away.
而朱尼尔,在为吸引艾比的注意力而奋斗了一生之后,并不打算花钱建造一座他知道会夺走他妻子的博物馆。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : He came to resent her being on the telephone.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家::他开始讨厌她打电话。
He resented her going to committee meetings, and he would only begrudgingly go to social events where it was necessary that he appear.
他讨厌她参加委员会会议,只有在有必要出席的社交活动中,他才会勉强参加。
Narrator: : Despite Junior's opposition Abby persevered.
旁白::尽管朱尼尔反对,艾比还是坚持了下来。
In 1936 Time Magazine recognized her as "the outstanding...patron of living artists in the United States."
1936 年,《时代》杂志表彰她为“美国在世艺术家的杰出……赞助人”。
In 1939, after 10 years in a temporary home, the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, opened its doors.
1939 年,在临时住所 10 年后,现代艺术博物馆 (MoMA) 重新开放。
Newsreel (archival): : Just off 5th Avenue, on a site long occupied by the old-fashioned town dwellings of the Rockefeller family, stands the spanking new home of a nationally important institution…
新闻片(档案)::就在第五大道附近,在洛克菲勒家族的老式城镇住宅长期占据的地方,矗立着一个国家重要机构的新家……
Narrator: : Junior not only donated over $6 million dollars, but had the Rockefeller home torn down to make room for the museum.
旁白:朱尼尔不仅捐赠了超过 600 万美元,还拆毁了洛克菲勒故居,为博物馆腾出空间。
In exchange, he extracted a promise.
作为交换,他得到了一个承诺。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : Abby made a bargain with Junior that they sell their property on 54th Street and move to an apartment, and he agreed to do it provided that she agreed to cut back most of her activities at MoMA.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家:艾比与朱尼尔达成协议,他们出售他们在 54 街的房产并搬到一套公寓,艾比同意这样做,前提是她同意减少在现代艺术博物馆的大部分活动。
He was concerned about her health then which was beginning to fail, and so she used that as a bargaining chip.
当时他担心她的健康状况开始恶化,所以她以此作为讨价还价的筹码。
Narrator: : For the Rockefellers, the Museum of Modern Art would always be known as "Mother's Museum." If mother had a museum, father had a monument.
旁白::对于洛克菲勒家族来说,现代艺术博物馆永远被称为“母亲的博物馆”。如果母亲有一座博物馆,父亲就有一座纪念碑。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : Rockefeller Center will always be the place that the Rockefellers can point to as the physical embodiment of what their family accomplished.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:洛克菲勒中心将永远是洛克菲勒家族所指的体现其家族成就的地方。
It's putting the family stamp right in the face of New York City and therefore on the face of America.
它将家族的印记打在纽约市的脸上,从而打在美国的脸上。
Narrator: : It had been conceived in 1928 as yet another philanthropy -- a new home for the Metropolitan Opera and development of the surrounding three block area.
旁白: :它于 1928 年被构想为另一项慈善事业——大都会歌剧院的新址以及周边三个街区的开发。
But then the stock market crashed in 1929, ruining millions of investors and wiping out more than half of the Rockefeller fortune.
但随后 1929 年股市崩盘,数百万投资者破产,洛克菲勒一半以上的财富也化为乌有。
Junior developed shingles, frequent, severe colds, "I walk the floors at nights, wondering where I'm going to get the money to build these buildings," he wrote.
朱尼尔患上了带状疱疹,经常患重感冒,“我晚上在地板上走来走去,想知道从哪里得到钱来建造这些建筑物,”他写道。
Albert Berger, Historian: : He's stuck with a couple of rather substantial blocks of property.
艾伯特·伯杰(Albert Berger),历史学家::他被几块相当大的财产困住了。
He has to pay lease payments on them.
他必须支付它们的租金。
He has to pay property taxes on them, and this is the absolute rock bottom of the country's economic history.
他必须为他们缴纳财产税,这绝对是该国经济史上的最低谷。
He can eat the loss or he can do something which is really very, very risky...
他可以承担损失,或者他可以做一些非常非常危险的事情......
Narrator: : Junior had been humiliated by the failure of his first business venture 30 years before.
旁白::30年前,朱尼尔因第一次创业的失败而感到羞辱。
Now, he rose to the challenge.
现在,他迎接了挑战。
He put up a third of his diminished fortune and gambled on the massive project.
他拿出三分之一的缩水财产,赌上了这个庞大的项目。
With 13 buildings surrounding a 70-story tower, Rockefeller Center was designed on an epic scale -- described as "a mixture of brashness and grandeur."
洛克菲勒中心由 13 座建筑围绕着一座 70 层的塔楼,其设计规模堪称史诗般,被描述为“傲慢与宏伟的结合体”。
Employing 75,000 workers, it was the only major construction project in New York City in the grim days of the Great Depression.
该项目雇佣了 75,000 名工人,是大萧条时期纽约市唯一的大型建设项目。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : This is an act of faith in America.
传记作者彼得·科利尔::这是对美国的信仰之举。
I think Americans were fascinated by the size, the magnitude, and the fact that this man, this family, believed that there was a future for the country, and this great monument was in effect built for that.
我认为美国人对它的规模、规模以及这个人、这个家庭相信这个国家有未来这一事实着迷,而这座伟大的纪念碑实际上就是为此而建造的。
Narrator: : In what would become a yearly tradition, grateful workers lit the first Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in 1933.
旁白: 1933 年,心存感激的工人们在洛克菲勒中心点燃了第一棵圣诞树,这后来成为了一年一度的传统。
Junior arrived early every morning.
朱尼尔每天早上都很早就到了。
He supervised blueprints, measuring each detail with his gold carpenter's ruler; pouring over every aspect of construction.
他监督蓝图,用金木匠的尺子测量每个细节。倾注在建设的各个方面。
Peter Johnson: : John D.
彼得·约翰逊::约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. had been told by the architects that buildings of this size with lobbies of this size needed adornment, they needed things to attract people, to make them more beautiful so people wanted to rent them and be there.
建筑师们告诉小洛克菲勒,这种规模的建筑和这种规模的大厅需要装饰,他们需要一些东西来吸引人们,让它们变得更漂亮,这样人们就想租用它们并在那里。
And he assigned the, ah, the carrying out of this particular part of the project to his son, Nelson.
他把这个项目的这个特定部分的执行任务分配给了他的儿子尼尔森。
Narrator: : From handling public relations to renting office space, Nelson, who was only 24, had become Junior's right hand man at Rockefeller Center.
旁白:从处理公关到租用办公场地,年仅24岁的纳尔逊已经成为朱尼尔在洛克菲勒中心的得力助手。
Joining forces with his mother, Abby, he made the case for commissioning a mural by the controversial Mexican painter Diego Rivera, to adorn the entrance the RCA building, the showpiece of Rockefeller Center.
他与母亲艾比 (Abby) 联手,委托颇具争议的墨西哥画家迭戈·里维拉 (Diego Rivera) 创作一幅壁画,用于装饰洛克菲勒中心 (Rockefeller Center) 的典范 RCA 大楼的入口。
Its theme, in keeping with the surrounding art would be "Man at the Crossroads looking hopefully toward the future."
它的主题是“十字路口的人充满希望地展望未来”,与周围的艺术保持一致。
Peter Johnson: : He submitted a, a sketch showing what he was going to do, man at the crossroads, and it had all people standing around, but it was going to be done in beautiful, vibrant Mexican colors, and it would be just astonishing.
彼得·约翰逊:他提交了一份草图,展示了他将要做的事情,《站在十字路口的人》,所有人都站在周围,但它将以美丽、充满活力的墨西哥色彩完成,这将是令人惊讶的。
Working day and night Rivera, an avowed Marxist, began to give shape to his vision.
里维拉,一位公开承认的马克思主义者,夜以继日地工作,开始实现他的愿景。
Peter Johnson: : As he gets down towards the bottom, all of a sudden the face of Vladimir Ilich Lenin appears in the quintessentially capitalist building, the quintessentially capitalist family, by the architects, by others, and Nelson is dispatched to talk to Diego.
彼得·约翰逊::当他走向底部时,弗拉基米尔·伊利奇·列宁的脸突然出现在典型的资本主义建筑中,典型的资本主义家庭中,由建筑师和其他人出现,纳尔逊被派去与迭戈交谈。
Narrator: "While I was in No. 1 building at Rockefeller Center yesterday viewing the progress of your thrilling mural," Nelson wrote Rivera, "I noticed that ...
旁白:“昨天,当我在洛克菲勒中心一号楼观看你令人兴奋的壁画的进展时,”尼尔森写信给里维拉,“我注意到......
you had included a portrait of Lenin....As much as I dislike to do so, I'm afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears."
你添加了列宁的肖像......尽管我不喜欢这样做,但恐怕我们必须要求你用某个不知名的人的脸来代替现在列宁的脸。”
Rivera refused.
里维拉拒绝了。
"Even a millionaire, should know that there are some things that cannot be bought," he said.
“即使是百万富翁,也应该知道有些东西是买不到的,”他说。
The Rockefeller Center management draped the huge fresco, 63 feet long and 17 feet high, in canvas, paid Rivera in full, and dismissed him.
洛克菲勒中心的管理层用帆布覆盖了这幅长 63 英尺、高 17 英尺的巨大壁画,并全额支付了里维拉的费用,然后解雇了他。
There were protests and demonstrations.
出现了抗议和示威活动。
And what the Rockefellers dreaded most: bad publicity.
洛克菲勒家族最害怕的是:不良宣传。
On the night of February 11, 1934, the mural was destroyed.
1934年2月11日晚,壁画被毁。
The pieces of plaster carted away under the cover of darkness.
石膏碎片在黑暗的掩护下被运走。
Years later, Rivera had his revenge.
多年后,里维拉报了仇。
He re-painted the mural in Mexico City.
他在墨西哥城重新绘制了这幅壁画。
This time, he added Junior, martini in hand, beneath a section he called "the germs of Capitalism."
这一次,他在他称之为“资本主义的萌芽”的部分下方添加了手里拿着马提尼的朱尼尔。
In his vigorous old age, John D.
在他精力充沛的晚年,约翰·D.
Rockefeller spoke often of reaching a hundred years.
洛克菲勒经常谈到活到一百岁。
He died on March 23, 1937 at his winter home in Ormond Beach, just two years short of his goal.
1937 年 3 月 23 日,他在奥蒙德海滩的过冬家中去世,距离他的目标仅差两年。
To the end of his days the king of Standard Oil, long vilified as "monstrous, evil, cruel" believed that he was at peace with God.
这位长期被谩骂为“可怕、邪恶、残忍”的标准石油公司国王直到晚年都相信自己与上帝和睦相处。
Laurance Rockefeller: : I've carried this verse in my purse for so long I can't remember.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒:我把这节经文放在钱包里很久了,我记不清了。
It's a quote from my grandfather:
这是我祖父的一句话:
"I was early taught to work as well as play, my life has been one long, happy holiday.
“我很早就被教导要工作和玩耍,我的生活是一个漫长而快乐的假期。
Full of work and full of play, I drop the worry on the way.
充满工作,充满玩耍,路上的烦恼都抛在脑后。
And God was good to me every day."
上帝每天都对我很好。”
Narrator: : The funeral was held at Kykuit the symbolic seat of the Rockefeller family and now Junior's residence.
旁白: 葬礼在 Kykuit 举行,这里是洛克菲勒家族的象征性所在地,现在是朱尼尔的住所。
All over the world, in every office, company and refinery of the former Standard Oil Empire, work ceased for five minutes.
在世界各地,前标准石油帝国的每个办公室、公司和炼油厂都停止了五分钟的工作。
Newsreel (archival): : "Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, reached completion after eight years of construction.
新闻片(档案):“洛克菲勒中心是一座城中之城,历经八年建设才竣工。
Planned in boom times and built during the Depression..."
在繁荣时期规划并在大萧条时期建造......”
Narrator: : In 1939, as he put the last rivet in Rockefeller Center, John D.
旁白: 1939 年,当约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr., now 65, could look back on a life of achievement.
现年 65 岁的小洛克菲勒可以回顾他辉煌的一生。
"...No man in America ...
“……美国没有人……
lived up to his ideals more than John D.
比 John D. 更能实现自己的理想。
Rockefeller, Jr.," said Ida Tarbell, the journalist whose expose of Standard Oil had tarnished the Rockefeller name.
小洛克菲勒”,记者艾达·塔贝尔(Ida Tarbell)说道,她对标准石油公司的曝光玷污了洛克菲勒的声誉。
".
”。
"I know of no father that has given better guidance to his son than has John D.
“据我所知,没有哪个父亲比约翰·D·肯尼迪(John D.
Rockefeller."
洛克菲勒。”
Albert Berger, Historian: : By spreading his philanthropy as broadly as he did, Junior gave a very large number of people reasons to remember the Rockefellers that had nothing to do with Standard Oil, that had nothing to do with Ida Tarbell, ah, but that had to do with beauty and nature and scientific progress .
历史学家阿尔伯特·伯杰:通过像他一样广泛地传播他的慈善事业,朱尼尔给了很多人记住洛克菲勒家族的理由,这些洛克菲勒家族与标准石油公司无关,与艾达·塔贝尔无关,啊,但与美丽、自然和科学进步有关。
Ron Chernow, Biographer: : I feel that John D.
Ron Chernow,传记作者::我觉得 John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. really sacrificed himself to redeem the family name.
小洛克菲勒确实牺牲了自己来挽回家族名誉。
He succeeded to such an extent that by the time his own children reached adulthood in the 1930s, it was probably very difficult for them to imagine the firestorm of controversy that had surrounded the Rockefeller name only 30 years before.
他的成功如此之大,以至于当他自己的孩子在 1930 年代成年时,他们可能很难想象仅仅 30 年前围绕洛克菲勒这个名字所引发的激烈争议。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : John D., Jr. has created this remarkable family.
彼得·科利尔(Peter Collier),传记作者::小约翰·D., Jr. 创建了这个非凡的家庭。
These five boisterous boys and all with great promise.
这五个活泼的男孩都前途无量。
But there is a kind of peril, and he sees it early on, and that is that they can undo with careless gestures, the work that has taken him 30 or 40 years to complete.
但有一种危险,他很早就看到了,那就是,他们可能会因不小心的举动而毁掉他花了 30 或 40 年才完成的工作。
Narrator: : In 1945, Junior had the portraits of his children painted to hang at (in) the grand living room of the Playhouse at Pocantico.
旁白:1945 年,朱尼尔将他的孩子们的肖像画挂在波坎蒂科剧场的大客厅里。
He was proud of his sons, who had served their country in WWII.
他为自己的儿子们感到自豪,他们在二战中为国家服务。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : The war is a crucible in which the brothers, really become men, and become men not only chronologically but become men inside the Rockefeller family.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:战争是一场严酷考验,兄弟俩在这场战争中真正成长为男人,不仅在时间上成长,而且在洛克菲勒家族内部成长。
The war begins the transition between Junior's control of the family and their control of the family.
战争开始了朱尼尔对家庭的控制和他们对家庭的控制之间的转变。
Narrator: : At war's end, the brothers, eager to carve out a role for themselves, descended on Rockefeller Center.
旁白:战争结束后,兄弟俩急于为自己创造一个角色,来到了洛克菲勒中心。
Settling in the modestly named Room 5600 -- the family offices which would soon occupy three floors of the RCA building .
落户于名称低调的 5600 室——家族办公室很快将占据 RCA 大楼的三层楼。
Peter Johnson: : The Brothers literally invaded Room 5600.
彼得·约翰逊::兄弟俩确实入侵了 5600 号房间。
They were not gonna come back and simply pick up where they had left off and do their father's bidding.
他们不会回来只是继续他们停下来的地方并执行他们父亲的命令。
They were going to try and change things, as powerfully as they could.
他们将尽其所能地尝试改变事情。
And in doing this Nelson very much took the lead.
在这方面,纳尔逊发挥了带头作用。
Rodman Rockefeller: : He probably had the most organizational energy of any of them.
罗德曼·洛克菲勒::他可能是他们中最具组织能力的人。
Like his grandfather Rockefeller, he was farsighted and was constantly trying to see what could be done, what -- how could we do things better?
像他的祖父洛克菲勒一样,他很有远见,不断地尝试看看可以做什么,我们怎样才能把事情做得更好?
He probably had a lot of ideas that he put forth with considerable energy.
他可能有很多想法,并且是用相当大的精力提出的。
Narrator: : As early as the 1930s, Nelson had begun to muscle his way into the position of leadership reserved for his more retiring older brother, John.
旁白::早在 20 世纪 30 年代,纳尔逊就开始强行占据为他即将退休的哥哥约翰保留的领导职位。
As President of Rockefeller Center he had played a key role in its commercial success.
作为洛克菲勒中心的主席,他在该中心的商业成功中发挥了关键作用。
And in 1939, he took his mother's place at the Museum of Modern Art.
1939 年,他接替了母亲在现代艺术博物馆的职位。
During the war Nelson had proved himself outside the family .
战争期间,纳尔逊在家庭之外证明了自己。
He served in Washington under Franklin Delano Roosevelt setting wartime policy for Latin America.
他在富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福领导下的华盛顿任职,为拉丁美洲制定战时政策。
At the end of his tour, one observer note : "Nelson Rockefeller...[is] someone who can keep all the balls in the air without losing his own." Nelson now challenged Junior's control of the family office, replacing his father's associates with his own and his brothers.’
在他的巡演结束时,一位观察家指出:“纳尔逊·洛克菲勒……是一个能够把所有的球都保持在空中而不失去自己的人。”尼尔森现在挑战朱尼尔对家族办公室的控制,用他自己和他的兄弟取代了他父亲的同事。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : Talk about the best and the brightest; these are the best and the brightest minds.
传记作者 Peter Collier::谈论最优秀和最聪明的人;他们是最优秀、最聪明的人。
And the question was how are we going to use this power that hangs over the country like a vast charge of static electricity.
问题是我们如何使用这种像大量静电一样笼罩着整个国家的力量。
How are we going to use it?
我们要如何使用它?
Tap into it?
点进去?
Narrator: : To reflect the new confidence, Nelson remodeled room 5600 in a daring modern style.
旁白::为了体现新的自信,纳尔逊将 5600 号房间改造成大胆的现代风格。
He led Junior on a tour of the new family offices.
他带领朱尼尔参观了新的家族办公室。
and with characteristic enthusiasm asked, "Gee, pa, isn’t this all impressive?" Junior softly replied: "Nelson, whom are we trying to impress?"
他带着特有的热情问道:“哎呀,爸,这一切是不是令人印象深刻?”朱尼尔轻声回答:“纳尔逊,我们想给谁留下好印象?”
Newsreel (archival): : This is the story of Cinderella, 1948 edition.
新闻片(档案): :这是灰姑娘的故事,1948 年版。
At the palatial mansion of Winston Guest in Palm Beach, Winthrop Rockefeller takes as his bride Barbara Sears, daughter of a miner.
在棕榈滩温斯顿·盖斯特的富丽堂皇的宅邸中,温思罗普·洛克菲勒娶了矿工的女儿芭芭拉·西尔斯为新娘。
Narrator: : On Valentine's Day 1948, Winthrop Rockefeller married a divorced former actress and showgirl "Bobo" Sears.
旁白:1948 年情人节,温思罗普·洛克菲勒与离婚的前女演员兼歌舞女郎“波波”·西尔斯结婚。
The gossip columnists called it a "Cinderella marriage." But what the press did not say was that the Rockefeller Cinderella was marrying, was not the prince.
八卦专栏作家称其为“灰姑娘婚姻”。但媒体没有说的是,洛克菲勒灰姑娘要结婚的不是王子。
Peter Johnson: : It certainly appears that Winthrop was the odd man out.
彼得·约翰逊: 温思罗普显然是个奇怪的人。
As a young boy he became the sort of butt of jokes and the one that was excluded from play by Nelson and Laurance.
当他还是个小男孩的时候,他就成了笑柄,被纳尔逊和劳伦斯排除在外。
They would oftentimes lure him into traps, lock him in closets, all sorts of things.
他们经常会引诱他落入陷阱,把他锁在壁橱里,等等。
Once or twice Winthrop just snapped and ran after Nelson and I think at one point was chasing him around the house with a kitchen knife trying to catch him.
有一两次,温思罗普突然发脾气,追着纳尔逊跑,我想有一次,他拿着菜刀在房子里追着他,试图抓住他。
Narrator: : In 1935, Winthrop set off to the oil fields of Texas to find himself -- after being expelled from Yale for showering in his dorm with a young lady.
旁白: 1935 年,温思罗普因与一位年轻女士在宿舍洗澡而被耶鲁大学开除后,前往德克萨斯州的油田寻找自己。
The Standard Oil fortune worked as a common roustabout, digging ditches, repairing pipelines, learning to drink like a field hand.
标准石油公司的财富就像一个普通的码头工人,挖沟渠,修理管道,学习像田间工人一样喝酒。
He returned to New York in 1938 and joined the Chase, the Rockefeller family bank.
1938 年,他返回纽约,加入洛克菲勒家族银行大通银行。
But even then, to Junior's great dismay, Winthrop spent much of his time as a man about town, delighting the tabloid press and gossip columnists.
但即便如此,令朱尼尔非常沮丧的是,温思罗普大部分时间都在城里闲逛,取悦小报和八卦专栏作家。
A distinguished tour of duty in World War II briefly redeemed Winthrop in his father's eyes.
第二次世界大战中的一次杰出的服役经历短暂地挽回了温思罗普在他父亲眼中的形象。
But even that proved short-lived.
但事实证明,这种情况也只是短暂的。
Disappointed that his son was marrying a divorcée, Junior did not attend Winthrop and Bobo's Palm Beach wedding.
朱尼尔对儿子要与离婚者结婚感到失望,因此没有参加温思罗普和波波的棕榈滩婚礼。
All brothers were now married, and had begun their own families.
现在所有的兄弟都结婚了,并开始了自己的家庭。
Their children, known as, "the cousins" roamed Pocantico, unsettling Junior, delighting Abby, and discovering what it meant to be a Rockefeller.
他们的孩子,被称为“表兄弟”,在波坎蒂科漫游,让朱尼尔感到不安,让艾比高兴,并发现了作为洛克菲勒家族的意义。
Steven Rockefeller: : My own personal experience of Pocantico as a child is of a place that, on the one hand, was something of an Eden.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒::我个人小时候对波坎蒂科的经历是,一方面,这是一个伊甸园。
Apart from the rest of the rest of world it was serene and beautiful but also as something of a prison.
与世界其他地方不同,这里宁静而美丽,但也像一座监狱。
It cut us off from ordinary relationships with other people and from the larger world.
它切断了我们与他人的正常关系以及更大的世界。
I remember as a child being disturbed by the fact that the family properties were patrolled by dogs with armed guards.
我记得小时候,我对家里有武装警卫的狗巡逻感到不安。
And I remember reading as a boy, Charles Dickens', The Tale of Two Cities , about the French Revolution.
我记得小时候读过查尔斯·狄更斯关于法国大革命的《两座城市的故事》。
And this piqued my imagination that here we were, in a sense, living as a rather aristocratic family in exclusive surroundings.
这激起了我的想象,从某种意义上说,我们在这里像一个相当贵族的家庭一样生活在独特的环境中。
And I began to imagine that out there was an angry mob who deeply resented what we had.
我开始想象外面有一群愤怒的暴民,他们对我们所拥有的一切深感不满。
Narrator: : Inside the walls of the family estate, "the Cousins" were schooled in Junior's strict moral code.
旁白::在家族庄园的围墙内,“表兄弟”接受了朱尼尔严格的道德准则教育。
David Rockefeller, Jr: : My grandfather was very powerful in that way.
小大卫·洛克菲勒::我的祖父在这方面非常强大。
He transmitted the values that he and his father had held down to his six children, and down to all of us in the cousins' generation,
他将他和他父亲所坚持的价值观传授给他的六个孩子,并传授给我们堂兄弟一代的所有人,
Peggy Dulany: : From a very early age, we were given an allowance and told that 10 percent of that allowance had to be given away.
Peggy Dulany:从很小的时候起,我们就得到了津贴,并被告知必须放弃其中的 10%。
So from the time we had anything to do with money, it wasn't only getting money or saving money, it was giving away money.
因此,从我们与金钱打交道的那一刻起,它就不仅仅是获取金钱或省钱,而是给予金钱。
David Rockefeller, Jr: : I think it was really Sunday when we received allowances, generally strategically just before church, as I recall.
小大卫·洛克菲勒:我认为我们收到津贴的那一天确实是星期日,据我记得,通常策略性地是在去教堂之前。
So a portion of that allowance was certainly going to go out pretty soon thereafter and then an accounting for it.
因此,这笔津贴的一部分肯定会很快用完,然后进行核算。
But I know with some of my sisters, it became kind of a game to see how skillfully you could invent the previous week's expenditures.
但我知道,对于我的一些姐妹来说,这就像一场游戏,看看你能如何巧妙地发明前一周的支出。
Narrator: : The ledgers which had regulated the lives of three generations of Rockefellers were all but abandoned by the time the Cousins came of age.
旁白:当表兄弟成年时,规范洛克菲勒三代人生活的账本几乎被抛弃了。
But lunch with grandfather at Kykuit was a ritual.
但在 Kykuit 与祖父共进午餐是一种仪式。
Rodman Rockefeller: : He used to receive us as a family on Sunday, and we would come, and that was a moment of some formality.
罗德曼·洛克菲勒:他过去常常在周日接待我们一家人,我们也会来,那是一种正式的时刻。
I mean, you got all dressed up for it and you came on time.
我的意思是,你已经盛装打扮并且准时到达了。
Abby O'Neill: : Grandfather would sit at the head of the table and he would carve a roast, and he did it like a surgeon.
艾比·奥尼尔:祖父会坐在桌子的一头,他会切烤肉,他的做法就像外科医生一样。
I often looked around the big table with about 20 people at it and wondered how he was going to make that roast beef go that far.
我经常环顾那张大约有 20 个人的大桌子,想知道他是如何让烤牛肉走那么远的。
But he sliced very fine slices and served them around.
但他把它们切成很细的片,然后端上来。
And conversation flowed.
谈话进行得很顺利。
And of course grandmother always made things fun.
当然,祖母总是让事情变得有趣。
She loved having her family around and she loved any social occasion.
她喜欢有家人在身边,也喜欢任何社交场合。
Narrator: On April 3, 1948, after a long winter stay in Arizona, Abby welcomed her family to Kykuit .
旁白:1948 年 4 月 3 日,在亚利桑那州度过了漫长的冬季之后,艾比迎来了她的家人来到基奎特。
David Rockefeller, Sr: .: My wife Peggy, and our son, David, and I were with her alone for a good part of the weekend, and we -- it was, we had a wonderful time together, and strangely as we went back to New York in the car after it, we both felt that it had a very special meaning for us, and we even wondered whether it might be the last time it would happen.
老大卫·洛克菲勒:我的妻子佩吉、我们的儿子大卫和我在周末的大部分时间里都独自和她在一起,我们一起度过了一段美好的时光,奇怪的是,当我们在这之后乘车返回纽约时,我们都觉得这对我们来说有非常特殊的意义,我们甚至想知道这是否会是最后一次发生。
Narrator: : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller died the following day, at age 73 -- of a weak heart.
旁白::艾比·奥尔德里奇·洛克菲勒于第二天因心脏病去世,享年 73 岁。
Junior, whose world revolved around Abby could not bear the pain.
世界围绕着艾比的朱尼尔无法忍受这种痛苦。
"Take this blow away" he said, insisting that his wife be cremated immediately.
他说:“消除这种打击”,并坚持要求立即火化他的妻子。
" Take this blow away..."
“把这个打击拿开吧……”
Abby O'Neill: : I knew he missed her terribly and he and I had become very close, so I went up and I spent two weeks with him that first summer that she died, he talked about her and, you know, "When Mama and I did this, or Mama and I did that," or, "I'm doing this for her in her memory." He never more or less said, "I'm terribly sad," but you knew he was.
艾比·奥尼尔:我知道他非常想念她,我和他变得非常亲密,所以我上去,在她去世的第一个夏天和他在一起度过了两周,他谈到了她,你知道,“当妈妈和我做了这个,或者妈妈和我做了那个,”或者,“我为她做这件事以纪念她。”他或多或少从来没有说过“我很难过”,但你知道他是这样。
Narrator: : Though he would live out the rest of his life at Kykuit , Junior transferred Pocantico to his children four years after Abby's death.
旁白:虽然他将在 Kykuit 度过余生,但在艾比去世四年后,朱尼尔将 Pocantico 转移给了他的孩子们。
Peter Johnson: : The year 1952 marks the end of the transition from John D.
彼得·约翰逊 (Peter Johnson): 1952 年标志着约翰·D·约翰逊 (John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., to his sons.
小洛克菲勒对他的儿子们说。
It's from that point on that the sort of the "brothers' generation," begins to have the recognition, visibility and effective control over the things that allows them to do the kinds of things they want.
正是从那时起,那种“兄弟一代”开始对事物拥有认知度、可见度和有效控制力,使他们能够做自己想做的事情。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : The brothers were anxious to get the money.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:兄弟俩急于拿到钱。
Unlike their father for whom the money had been associated with such evil, fraught with such peril.
与他们的父亲不同,对他来说,金钱与如此邪恶、充满危险联系在一起。
There was a sense that this money could be used for personal ends now.
人们感觉这笔钱现在可以用于个人目的。
To pursue their professional and social objectives.
追求他们的职业和社会目标。
Narrator: : John III continued to run the family philanthropies, but was emerging from his father’s shadow through his work in population control, and US-Asia relations.
旁白:约翰三世继续经营家族慈善事业,但通过在人口控制和美亚关系方面的工作摆脱了父亲的阴影。
Laurance, who had inherited his grandfather’s business touch was a pioneering venture capitalist.
劳伦斯继承了祖父的商业触觉,是一位开创性的风险投资家。
He invested in aviation, new technologies, and built tropical resorts with an eye to conservation.
他投资了航空、新技术,并建造了热带度假村,着眼于保护环境。
David, the family intellectual, was, at age 37, already senior vice-president of The Chase Bank and was becoming a champion of urban renewal.
大卫是一位家族知识分子,37 岁时已经是大通银行的高级副总裁,并正在成为城市更新的倡导者。
Even Winthrop had found an interest of his own.
甚至温思罗普也找到了自己的兴趣。
In 1952, he went to Arkansas to divorce Bobo Sears.
1952年,他前往阿肯色州与波波·西尔斯离婚。
There, he fell in love with a mountain plateau, named Petite Jean, and transformed it into a cattle ranch, Winrock Farms.
在那里,他爱上了一片名叫Petite Jean的山地高原,并将其改造成一个养牛场,Winrock Farms。
"This is my show," he exulted.
“这是我的表演,”他兴奋地说。
"It doesn’t have anything to do with any Rockefeller family project."
“这与洛克菲勒家族的任何项目都没有任何关系。”
The Rockefeller most in the public eye, Nelson, was a prominent member of Dwight D.
最受公众关注的洛克菲勒人物纳尔逊是德怀特·D·洛克菲勒的重要成员。
Eisenhower’s administration.
艾森豪威尔政府。
At once a Cold Warrior and Social Liberal, Nelson bombarded the cautious President with ideas, but they were largely ignored.
纳尔逊既是冷战战士,又是社会自由主义者,他向谨慎的总统提出了各种想法,但这些想法基本上被忽视了。
"I've learned one thing," he confided to an associated as he left Washington, "you can't have influence in government if you haven't been elected."
“我学到了一件事,”他在离开华盛顿时向一位同事透露,“如果你没有当选,你就不可能对政府产生影响。”
Nelson returned to New York, "like an exiled monarch come to retake his throne, " in the words of a biographer.
纳尔逊回到纽约,用一位传记作家的话说,“就像一位流亡的君主重新夺回王位一样”。
Laurance stepped aside, ceding Nelson the presidency of Rockefeller Center.
劳伦斯退到一边,放弃了纳尔逊洛克菲勒中心主席的职位。
John reluctantly surrendered control of the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund, the brother's philanthropy.
约翰不情愿地放弃了对洛克菲勒兄弟慈善事业的控制权。
It was 1956.
那是1956年。
America stood at the pinnacle of its prestige, and the Rockefellers were the nation’s first family not only of wealth but also of power.
美国处于其声望的顶峰,洛克菲勒家族不仅是美国第一家族,不仅拥有财富,而且拥有权力。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : If there was an establishment in America in the '50s, it was these Rockefeller brothers.
传记作者彼得·科利尔 (Peter Collier):如果说 50 年代的美国有一个势力的话,那就是洛克菲勒兄弟。
These young men have taken their place as these absolutely unique members of a unique family.
这些年轻人已经成为一个独特家庭中绝对独特的成员。
They're, in some sense, the very tip of this kind of the American century, the American experience, this optimism that buoys America, in the post-war era.
从某种意义上说,它们是这种美国世纪的尖端,是美国的经验,是战后时代支撑美国的乐观主义。
Jay Rockefeller: : They were in many ways at the center of business life, conservation life, environmental life, political life.
杰伊·洛克菲勒:他们在很多方面都是商业生活、保护生活、环境生活和政治生活的中心。
They were in the middle of it.
他们正处于其中。
That's exactly where they wanted to be.
这正是他们想要的地方。
And they loved it.
他们喜欢它。
Narrator: : Fifty years after Ida Tarbell’s scathing attack on John D.
旁白::艾达·塔贝尔严厉攻击约翰·D·肯尼迪五十年后
Rockefeller, Sr. in McClure’s magazine, Fortune magazine published a glowing profile of his grandchildren.
老洛克菲勒在麦克卢尔的杂志《财富》杂志上刊登了他的孙子们的精彩简介。
Each brother was said to be worth upwards of 100 million dollars.
据说兄弟俩的身价都在1亿美元以上。
But more important than their wealth, Fortune argued, was the vast social empire which the brothers commanded.
但《财富》认为,比他们的财富更重要的是兄弟俩所掌控的庞大社会帝国。
From their headquarters in mid-town Manhattan their influence reached into every sphere.
从位于曼哈顿市中心的总部开始,他们的影响力遍及各个领域。
Joe Persico: : Over the years, through the Rockefeller philanthropic enterprises, charities, support of science, their business enterprises, a web had developed which spread out and was interconnected with practically every center of power in our country, and abroad as well.
乔·佩尔西科:多年来,通过洛克菲勒的慈善企业、慈善机构、对科学的支持以及他们的商业企业,一个网络已经发展起来,该网络与我国和国外的几乎每个权力中心相互联系。
So this was the real strength and power of the family going well beyond money alone.
所以这是家庭真正的力量和力量,远远超出了金钱的范围。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : Sometimes they would joke about it, they'd say, "Well, David gets Europe, Nelson's going to have Latin America, and you know, John D., III, gets Asia," and then they'd make some joke about what Winthrop got, you know, which would be something like Arkansas.
彼得·科利尔,传记作者:有时他们会开玩笑,他们会说,“好吧,大卫得到了欧洲,纳尔逊将得到拉丁美洲,而你知道,约翰·D.三世得到了亚洲,”然后他们会开玩笑说温思罗普得到了,你知道的,就像阿肯色州一样。
But nonetheless, there was something really behind the joke .
但尽管如此,这个笑话背后确实有一些东西。
Narrator: : "...
旁白::“……
Sheer diversity and excellence of intent," Fortune rhapsodized, "set these young brothers apart as the most unusual brothers of their generation.’
“纯粹的多样性和卓越的意图,”《财富》狂热地赞叹道,“使这些年轻的兄弟成为他们这一代人中最不寻常的兄弟。”
Laurance Rockefeller: : So when father read this article he was quite overwhelmed and he wrote us this extraordinary letter.
劳伦斯·洛克菲勒::所以当父亲读到这篇文章时,他非常不知所措,他给我们写了这封非凡的信。
He capsulized it by saying, "I used to be known as the son of my father, from now on I'll be known as the father of my sons."
他概括地说:“我曾经被称为我父亲的儿子,从现在起我将被称为我儿子们的父亲。”
Narrator: : To Junior, his first child was less a source of pride.
旁白::对于朱尼尔来说,他的第一个孩子并不值得骄傲。
At age 53, now on her third marriage, Babs continued to rebel.
53 岁的巴布斯已经第三次结婚了,但她仍然叛逆。
Clarice Stasz, Historian: : She refuses to give money to charities.
克拉丽斯·斯塔兹(Clarice Stasz),历史学家:她拒绝向慈善机构捐款。
And Junior knows this because he checks over her income tax reports, and complains to her that she is not giving money away.
朱尼尔知道这一点,因为他检查了她的所得税报告,并向她抱怨她没有捐钱。
Babs' attitude is really essentially one of "So what, I get to do what I want now." Babs seemed to reject the family’s mission of public service.
巴布斯的态度本质上是“那又怎样,我现在就可以做我想做的事了”。巴布斯似乎拒绝接受家族的公共服务使命。
Her brother, Nelson, was about to take it in a whole new direction.
她的兄弟尼尔森即将把它带向一个全新的方向。
Narrator: : In 1958, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ran for governor of New York, the office from which Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt had propelled themselves into the presidency of the United States.
旁白: 1958 年,纳尔逊·奥尔德里奇·洛克菲勒竞选纽约州州长,西奥多·罗斯福和富兰克林·罗斯福就是从这个职位上登上美国总统宝座的。
For a family that had repeatedly been hurt by public criticism it was a step fraught with peril.
对于一个屡次受到公众批评伤害的家庭来说,这是充满危险的一步。
Rodman Rockefeller: : My great-grandfather was attacked over an extended period of time by journalists so in that sense this was a dangerous, unpredictable world out there, and the best thing to do was stay away from it, not provoke it.
罗德曼·洛克菲勒:我的曾祖父在很长一段时间内受到记者的攻击,所以从这个意义上说,这是一个危险的、不可预测的世界,最好的办法就是远离它,而不是激怒它。
David Rockefeller, Jr.: : I think that Nelson's own very extrovert personality and then going into politics, brought the family more into the public eye than they'd ever been really comfortable with before, and created some tension in the family because if one person goes public to that extent, in a certain sense they bring everybody else with them.
小大卫·洛克菲勒:我认为纳尔逊本人非常外向的性格,然后涉足政界,让这个家庭比以前真正舒服地进入了公众视野,并在家庭中造成了一些紧张,因为如果一个人公开到这种程度,从某种意义上来说,他们就会把其他所有人都带入公众视野。
Narrator: : The brothers put aside their apprehensions, and backed Nelson.
旁白::兄弟俩放下疑虑,支持纳尔逊。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : The brothers all collaborate in his first political campaign, they all contribute.
传记作者彼得·科利尔:兄弟俩在他的第一次政治竞选中合作,他们都做出了贡献。
John D., III is a little reluctant, but you know, who is he really?
约翰·D.三世有点不情愿,但你知道,他到底是谁?
He’s the bypassed first son, you know how can he prescribe policy for this generation?
他是被忽视的嫡子,你知道他如何为这一代人制定政策吗?
So there is a sense that they had come so far, why not go the extra step?
所以有一种感觉,他们已经走了这么远,为什么不再迈出一步呢?
Which is the step that leads them to the White House.
这是引导他们进入白宫的一步。
Narrato: r : In his race for the Republican nomination for governor, Nelson Rockefeller ran against a conservative, Walter Mahoney.
旁白:r:在共和党州长提名的竞选中,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒与保守派沃尔特·马奥尼展开竞争。
William Rusher: : I remember Walter Mahoney saying to me early on, "The one thing I cannot gauge is the effect of big wealth when it is brought to bear," and he was right on the mark when he said that, because we found out that in New York's 60 plus counties, practically all of them, in practically all of them, the county chairman was either the president of the local bank or the lawyer for the president of the local bank and all of the local banks had affiliations with Chase-Manhattan, and there was just no stopping Rockefeller.
威廉·拉舍:我记得沃尔特·马奥尼很早就对我说过,“我无法衡量的一件事是巨额财富产生的影响”,他说得很对,因为我们发现,在纽约的 60 多个县中,几乎所有的县,县主席要么是当地银行的行长,要么是当地银行行长的律师,而且所有当地银行都与大通曼哈顿,洛克菲勒是无法阻止的。
He rolled over us with no trouble at all.
他毫无困难地从我们身上翻过。
Narrator: : The Republican nominee would go on to oppose the incumbent democratic governor, Averell Harriman.
旁白:这位共和党候选人将继续反对现任民主党州长艾夫里尔·哈里曼。
A patrician, heir to one of the nation's largest railroad fortunes, Harriman could match Nelson Rockefeller’s resources.
作为一名贵族,美国最大铁路财富之一的继承人,哈里曼的资源可以与纳尔逊·洛克菲勒相媲美。
But not his personality.
但不是他的个性。
Reporter (archival): : Mr. Rockefeller, what's that in the package?
记者(档案)::洛克菲勒先生,包裹里是什么?
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : I've got a wonderful piece of salami.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我有一块很棒的萨拉米香肠。
After they got all of the pictures in there, I said, well what I come in to get is the salami and not the pictures.
当他们把所有照片都放在那里后,我说,好吧,我进来是为了买萨拉米香肠,而不是照片。
So, I had to finish my purchase.
所以,我必须完成购买。
Harriman (archival): : The chefs and the cook gave me some delicious food to eat.
哈里曼(档案)::厨师和厨师给了我一些美味的食物。
Uh, the gefilta fish with horseradish and then blintz with...
呃,加辣根的吉菲尔塔鱼,然后加薄饼……
Steven Rockefeller: : He discovered that he thoroughly enjoyed politics, being out in the hustings with people.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒:他发现自己非常喜欢政治,喜欢和人们一起参加竞选活动。
He loved the give and take of dialogue with people on the street and in restaurants, in all sorts of different situations.
他喜欢在街上和餐馆里,在各种不同的情况下与人们进行对话。
Joseph Persico: : The people reacting to him would start the adrenaline flowing, and the big grin would come out, and he would start slapping the backs and pumping the flesh, and giving people his trademark, "Hiya, fella," and he would clearly enjoy it.
约瑟夫·佩尔西科:对他做出反应的人们会开始肾上腺素流动,并且会露出灿烂的笑容,他会开始拍打后背,抽动肌肉,并给人们他的标志性的“嗨,伙计”,他显然会喜欢它。
Narrator: : As the 1958 gubernatorial campaign wound down Rockefeller had traveled 85 hundred miles, delivered more than 100 speeches And spent as much as four million dollars -- more than any candidate running for state office ever had.
旁白:1958 年州长竞选结束时,洛克菲勒已经行驶了 8500 英里,发表了 100 多次演讲,花费了 400 万美元——比任何竞选州公职的候选人都多。
Newsreel (archival): : At the GOP campaign headquarters in New York City, it's Nelson A.
新闻片(档案)::在纽约市的共和党竞选总部,我是 Nelson A.
Rockefeller who's the Empire State's governor elect.
洛克菲勒当选帝国州州长。
A winner by 560,000 votes...
以 560,000 票获胜...
Narrator: : For John D.
旁白::献给约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr., now a frail 84 years old, Nelson's victory was the vindication of his life-long mission to redeem the family name.
小洛克菲勒现年 84 岁,体弱多病,纳尔逊的胜利证明了他拯救家族名誉的毕生使命是正确的。
Steven Rockefeller: : The fact that Nelson had been elected was a sign to him that the people of the United States had in fact fully accepted the Rockefellers in spite of the early history of the family.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒:纳尔逊当选这一事实对他来说是一个信号,表明美国人民实际上已经完全接受了洛克菲勒家族,尽管该家族的早期历史。
Joe Persico: : Nelson Rockefeller had done something that no other Rockefeller had ever done.
乔·佩尔西科:纳尔逊·洛克菲勒做了其他洛克菲勒从未做过的事情。
He had gone public, he had won the affirmation and the mandate of the people, and that meant as much to him personally as it did politically.
他公开了,他赢得了人民的肯定和授权,这对他个人和政治上都意义重大。
Narrator: : On May 11, 1960, at age 86, John D.
旁白:1960 年 5 月 11 日,86 岁的约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. died during his winter stay in Tucson, Arizona.
小洛克菲勒在亚利桑那州图森过冬期间去世。
The funeral was held in New York, at The Riverside Church, the gothic cathedral Junior had built.
葬礼在纽约河滨教堂举行,这座哥特式大教堂是儒尼奥尔建造的。
By the time of his death, Junior, who had given away over half a billion dollars, was regarded as one of the world's foremost philanthropists.
到去世时,朱尼尔已经捐赠了超过 5 亿美元,被认为是世界上最重要的慈善家之一。
To his children and 22 grandchildren he was leaving an invaluable inheritance, a name which stood not for corporate greed, but for the "well-being of mankind."
他为他的孩子和 22 个孙子留下了一份无价的遗产,这个名字不代表企业的贪婪,而是代表“人类的福祉”。
Nelson rushed to fill the void his father’s death had created.
纳尔逊急忙填补父亲去世造成的空白。
Less than a year after Junior’s death, he moved into Kykuit , the mansion at Pocantico Hills his father had built for his grandfather.
朱尼尔去世后不到一年,他搬进了基奎特,这是他父亲为祖父建造的位于波坎蒂科山的豪宅。
The many modern sculptures he added to his father’s classical statuary, and imposed on his grandfather’s stately landscapes, underscored that he was the New Lord of Kykuit .
他在他父亲的古典雕像上添加了许多现代雕塑,并强加在他祖父的庄严风景画上,强调了他是基奎特的新领主。
Junior's death freed Nelson to make a move he had contemplated for some time.
朱尼尔的死让尼尔森得以采取行动,他已经考虑了一段时间了。
On November 17, 1961, the family offices announced that Rockefeller and his wife Mary Tod Clark were divorcing after 30 years.
1961 年 11 月 17 日,家族办公室宣布洛克菲勒与妻子玛丽·托德·克拉克 (Mary Tod Clark) 在结婚 30 年后离婚。
Although the marriage had been strained for some time, and rumors abounded of Nelson's many affairs, the divorce had profound implications for the Rockefeller family.
尽管这段婚姻一段时间以来一直处于紧张状态,而且关于纳尔逊的许多风流韵事的谣言也很多,但离婚对洛克菲勒家族产生了深远的影响。
Peter Johnson: : People were hurt and upset, and I think for the first time people began to question Nelson's motivations, Nelson's -- the reasons why he was doing things, what was most important to him.
彼得·约翰逊:人们感到受伤和不安,我认为人们第一次开始质疑尼尔森的动机,尼尔森的动机——他做事的原因,对他来说最重要的是什么。
Steven Rockefeller: : He was the governor of New York; he was aspiring to run for president of the United States.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒::他是纽约州州长;他立志竞选美国总统。
Therefore, there was a great deal of public attention focused on him and his life.
因此,他和他的生活受到了公众的广泛关注。
A divorce is not a happy or pleasant thing for any group and the Rockefeller family's always been shy of publicity.
对于任何群体来说,离婚都不是一件幸福或令人愉快的事情,洛克菲勒家族一直不愿公开露面。
And, so the spotlight that Nelson attracted, because of the divorce, made everybody a bit uncomfortable.
而且,尼尔森因为离婚而受到的关注,让每个人都有点不舒服。
Narrator: : Two days later, as Nelson and his brother David discussed consequences of the divorce, Nelson received a telephone call.
旁白: 两天后,当纳尔逊和他的兄弟大卫讨论离婚的后果时,纳尔逊接到了一个电话。
His and Mary Clark's youngest son, 23-year-old Michael, had disappeared while on an expedition to Papua New Guinea.
他和玛丽·克拉克 (Mary Clark) 最小的儿子、23 岁的迈克尔 (Michael) 在前往巴布亚新几内亚探险时失踪。
Nelson immediately flew to New Guinea accompanied by his daughter Mary, Michael's twin sister.
纳尔逊立即在迈克尔的双胞胎妹妹女儿玛丽的陪同下飞往新几内亚。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : "I'm headed out there so to be there.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案):“我正前往那里,以便到达那里。
We hope they find him before we get there.....but to be there when they do find him."
我们希望他们在我们到达那里之前找到他......但当他们找到他时我们也能在那里。”
Narrator: : Nelson took charge of the search which soon assumed the dimensions of a military operation.
旁白:纳尔逊负责搜寻,很快就达到了军事行动的规模。
The Dutch Navy sent ships.
荷兰海军派出了舰艇。
The Australian Navy sent planes.
澳大利亚海军派出了飞机。
President John Kennedy even offered use of an aircraft carrier.
约翰·肯尼迪总统甚至提出使用航空母舰。
It was all in vain.
一切都是徒劳。
Michael Rockefeller was never found.
迈克尔·洛克菲勒从未被发现。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : Ever since he was little, he's been very aware of people, their feelings, their thoughts.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案): :从很小的时候起,他就非常了解人们、他们的感受和想法。
He's a person who's always loved people and been loved by people.
他是一个一直爱着人们,也被人们所爱的人。
Steven Rockefeller: : The whole experience of searching for Michael in New Guinea, the failure to find him or even to be able to determine exactly what had happened to him, was a very grim experience for the whole family.
史蒂文·洛克菲勒:在新几内亚寻找迈克尔的整个经历,未能找到他,甚至无法确定他到底发生了什么事,对整个家庭来说都是一次非常严峻的经历。
And Michael is the only one of the cousins to have been lost as a young person, and it was a deep shock to everyone.
迈克尔是表兄弟中唯一一个年轻时就去世的人,这对每个人来说都是一个深深的震惊。
Narrator: : In November 1962, Nelson Rockefeller was re-elected governor of New York in a landslide.
旁白: 1962年11月,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒以压倒性优势再次当选纽约州州长。
The popular governor of the nation's most populous state, Nelson had a golden opportunity to gain the Republican nomination for President.
作为美国人口最多的州的受欢迎的州长,纳尔逊有一个获得共和党总统提名的绝佳机会。
As the 1964 presidential elections approached, opinion polls showed Rockefeller holding a commanding 17 point lead over his closest rival, the Republican senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater.
随着 1964 年总统选举的临近,民意调查显示洛克菲勒以 17 个百分点的优势领先于他最接近的竞争对手、来自亚利桑那州的共和党参议员巴里·戈德华特 (Barry Goldwater)。
Most observers regarded Nelson's nomination for the Presidency in 1964 a foregone conclusion.
大多数观察家认为纳尔逊 1964 年获得总统提名已成定局。
Then, in the months before the Republican primaries, there was talk of a woman in Rockefeller's life.
然后,在共和党初选前的几个月,有人谈论洛克菲勒生活中的一位女性。
Newsreel (archival): : "There's a strong rumor around today, governor, that you were going to announce your personal plans for the future."
新闻片(档案)::“今天有一个强烈的谣言,州长,您将宣布您的个人未来计划。”
"When do you expect to be able to comment on this, Governor?"
“州长,您预计什么时候能够对此发表评论?”
Narrator: : The marriage took place at Pocantico on May 4, 1963.
旁白::婚礼于 1963 年 5 月 4 日在 Pocantico 举行。
The bride was Margaretta "Happy" Murphy, recently divorced and the mother of four children.
新娘是玛格丽塔·“快乐”·墨菲,最近离婚,是四个孩子的母亲。
Laurance hosted the wedding.
劳伦斯主持了婚礼。
Neither Nelson's children nor his other siblings attended.
尼尔森的孩子和其他兄弟姐妹都没有参加。
Earlier in the week Winthrop had come all the way from Arkansas to try to dissuade Nelson from marrying.
本周早些时候,温思罗普从阿肯色州专程赶来,试图劝阻纳尔逊不要结婚。
That very weekend, John D., III entertained Nelson's ex-wife Tod at his home in Williamsburg.
就在那个周末,约翰·D·三世在纳尔逊位于威廉斯堡的家中招待了纳尔逊的前妻托德。
David Rockefeller, Sr: : I think it would be inaccurate to say that it didn't create problems for him, both politically and within the family.
老大卫·洛克菲勒:我认为说这没有给他带来政治上和家庭上的问题是不准确的。
I think that his political career, um, started to come to an end at the time of his divorce and remarriage.
我觉得他的政治生涯,呃,从他离婚再婚的时候就开始结束了。.
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : My great honor and pleasure to introduce to you someone that some of you have been looking for quite awhile, Mrs. Rockefeller.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我非常荣幸和高兴地向您介绍一位你们中的一些人一直在寻找的人,洛克菲勒夫人。
Peter Collier, Biographer: : Nelson at this point really knows no bounds.
彼得·科利尔(Peter Collier),传记作者::纳尔逊在这一点上确实没有界限。
He is, you know, he is riding the updrafts of this amazing thing that has happened with the family in the post-war era, and figures, you know, he can have it all.
他,你知道,他正乘着战后时代家庭发生的令人惊奇的事情的上升气流,并且他认为,你知道,他可以拥有这一切。
Joe Persico: : These were much more conservative times, socially, in this country.
乔·佩尔西科:在这个国家,从社会角度来看,这是一个更加保守的时代。
He was warned that this was a very perilous thing for him to do in light of his still-burning political ambitions.
有人警告他,鉴于他仍然燃烧着的政治野心,这样做对他来说是一件非常危险的事情。
He went ahead with it anyway.
不管怎样,他还是继续了。
Narrator: : For weeks, the Rockefeller name was splashed across the national press.
旁白::几个星期以来,洛克菲勒的名字在全国媒体上广为流传。
Nelson was called a home wrecker; his new wife was accused of abandoning her young children.
纳尔逊被称为家庭破坏者;他的新婚妻子被指控抛弃了年幼的孩子。
By late May his lead over Goldwater had vanished.
到五月底,他对戈德华特的领先优势已经消失。
A pundit, who only weeks earlier had been certain of Nelson's nomination, now said his chances were worth 'little more than a plugged nickel.'
一位专家几周前还确信纳尔逊会获得提名,但现在他表示,他的机会“只值五分钱”。
In the spring of 1964, with the odds stacked against him, Nelson Rockefeller set out in pursuit of Barry Goldwater.
1964 年春天,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒 (Nelson Rockefeller) 在处境不利的情况下出发,开始追逐巴里·戈德华特 (Barry Goldwater)。
Barry Goldwater (archival): : Why would you and I allow our federal government, this administration, to act in such a pussy-foot way...
巴里·戈德华特(档案)::为什么你和我会允许我们的联邦政府、本届政府以如此谨慎的方式行事......
Narrator: : It was a duel of opposites: Goldwater, the leading conservative of his time against Rockefeller, the eastern establishment liberal Republican.
旁白:这是一场对立的对决:当时保守派领袖戈德华特与东部自由派共和党人洛克菲勒之间的对决。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : The basic issue is whether the extreme right wing is going to infiltrate the Republican Party and, as they did at the Young Republican Convention, actually take over the leadership
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::基本问题是极右翼是否会渗透到共和党中,并像他们在青年共和党大会上所做的那样,实际上接管领导层
Narrator: : Rockefeller minced no words and spared no effort or expense in the race for the Republican nomination.
旁白::洛克菲勒在共和党提名的角逐中毫不拐弯抹角,不遗余力、不遗余力。
By the time he and Happy, now pregnant, arrived in California, the decisive primary of the campaign, polls showed Rockefeller leading Goldwater by nine points.
当他和现在怀孕的哈皮抵达加利福尼亚州时,这是竞选的决定性初选,民意调查显示洛克菲勒领先戈德华特九个百分点。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : It is my opinion that the California primary, the Republican voters in that primary are going to play the leading part in making the decision as to the character and nature of the Republican Party and its leadership that goes down in the convention here in California.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案):我认为,在加州初选中,共和党选民将在决定共和党的性格和性质及其领导层的决定方面发挥主导作用,这一点将在加州的大会上得到体现。
Narrator: : As the candidates marshaled their forces for the decisive battle, the campaign degenerated into a brawl.
旁白::当候选人集结兵力进行决战时,竞选活动演变成了一场斗殴。
There were intimidating phone calls and bomb threats.
有恐吓电话和炸弹威胁。
Goldwater accused Rockefeller of being "morally unfit." Rockefeller called Goldwater "extremist and irresponsible." Through it all, Rockefeller's lead held.
戈德华特指责洛克菲勒“道德不合格”。洛克菲勒称戈德华特“极端主义且不负责任”。自始至终,洛克菲勒一直保持着领先地位。
Then, three days before Californians were to go to the polls, Happy Rockefeller gave birth to a son.
然后,在加州人去投票的前三天,哈皮·洛克菲勒生下了一个儿子。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : It was born at 4:15.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案): :它出生于 4 点 15 分。
seven lbs, 10 ounces.
七磅,10 盎司。
And it's a really thrilling moment.
这真是一个激动人心的时刻。
Thanks very much.
非常感谢。
William: Rusher : The birth of the first of Nelson and Happy's children, at that time, didn't make it any easier for Nelson Rockefeller.
威廉:拉舍:当时,纳尔逊和哈皮的第一个孩子的出生并没有让纳尔逊·洛克菲勒的日子变得更轻松。
It brought up again the whole business of his having thrown over his first wife and having married this fresher article of Happy Murphy.
这又让他想起了他抛弃第一任妻子并与哈皮·墨菲的这篇新鲜文章结婚的整个事情。
It was just the wrong time, when you're in a very narrow race, to have a subject like that come up.
当你的竞争非常激烈时,提出这样的话题实在是不合时宜。
Narrator: : Two days after his son's birth, Nelson’s lead over Goldwater disappeared.
旁白::儿子出生两天后,尼尔森对戈德华特的领先优势消失了。
On July 16, at the San Francisco Cow Palace, Barry Goldwater was nominated in the first ballot.
7月16日,在旧金山牛宫,巴里·戈德华特在第一轮投票中获得提名。
Barry Goldwater (archival): : I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
巴里·戈德华特(档案):我想提醒您,捍卫自由的极端主义并不是罪恶。
Narrator: : The runner-up, Nelson Rockefeller, was given five minutes to address the convention.
旁白::亚军纳尔逊·洛克菲勒有五分钟的时间在大会上发言。
Archival: : May we have order, may we have order, may we have order so that the delegate may be heard.
档案: :愿我们有命令,愿我们有命令,愿我们有命令,以便可以听到代表的声音。
Narrator: : The mostly hostile crowd Governor Nelson Rockefeller addressed that day was no longer his Republican Party.
旁白::纳尔逊·洛克菲勒州长那天发表讲话的最敌对的人群不再是他的共和党。
Rodman: Rockefeller : Present probably for the first time in any significant numbers in a Republican convention was a strong conservative populist force of people, what today I think we would identify, at least in part, as the Christian Coalition, who were in open rebellion against the so-called Liberal Republican Party.
罗德曼:洛克菲勒:在共和党代表大会上,强大的保守民粹主义力量可能是第一次在共和党大会上出现,我认为我们至少在一定程度上将其视为基督教联盟,他们公开反抗所谓的自由共和党。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : During this year, I have criss-crossed this nation, fighting for these principles, fighting to keep the Republican Party the party of all the people [audience response].
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::这一年里,我走遍了这个国家,为这些原则而奋斗,为让共和党成为全体人民的政党而奋斗[观众反应]。
And warning of the extremist threat, its danger to the party [chants of "we want Barry"].
并警告极端主义威胁及其对党的危险[高喊“我们想要巴里”]。
Joseph: Persico : No matter how long and hard they jeered and shouted, he kept watching his time.
约瑟夫: 佩尔西科:无论他们嘲笑和喊叫多久,他都一直注意自己的时间。
And he said, I'll stay here until I get my five minutes.
他说,我会留在这里直到我有五分钟的时间。
The five minutes endured for 15 minutes.
这五分钟持续了15分钟。
That was a shining moment, Nelson Rockefeller standing up, courageously, taking the hoots and hollers of the crowd and refusing to bend.
那是一个辉煌的时刻,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒勇敢地站起来,接受着人群的呼喊声,拒绝屈服。
Narrator: : Nelson Rockefeller returned home to Kykuit .
旁白::纳尔逊·洛克菲勒回到基奎特的家乡。
Surrounded by his beloved art collection and the affection of his new family, he settled down to the business of running the State of New York.
在他心爱的艺术收藏和新家庭的关爱的包围下,他开始专注于管理纽约州的事务。
Spending taxpayers' money as freely as if it were his own, he embarked on a massive building spree which would transform the Empire State.
他像花自己的钱一样自由地花纳税人的钱,开始了大规模的建设热潮,这将改变帝国大厦。
Miles and miles of highways.
数英里的高速公路。
Hundreds of water treatment plants.
数百个水处理厂。
Fifty new state parks.
五十个新州立公园。
Joseph: Persico : He liked nothing better than to see the dirt fly.
约瑟夫:佩尔西科:他最喜欢看到泥土飞扬。
That's why he built this huge university system.
这就是他建立这个庞大的大学系统的原因。
He built the new capitol, known today as the Nelson A.
他建造了新国会大厦,今天被称为纳尔逊 A.
Rockefeller Empire State Plaza.
洛克菲勒帝国大厦。
Here was something tangible that you could put your hands on, that you could see, that would long outlast his own life.
这是有形的东西,你可以触手可及,你可以看到,它会比他自己的生命更长久。
Narrator: : As Rockefeller became absorbed in remaking New York State, his presidential virus seemed to be in remission.
旁白:随着洛克菲勒全神贯注于重建纽约州,他的总统病毒似乎得到了缓解。
"I believe Rocky when he says he's lost his presidential ambition," journalist Bill Moyers commented, "I also believe he remembers where he put it."
记者比尔·莫耶斯评论说:“当洛基说他失去了总统野心时,我相信他,我也相信他记得他把它放在哪里。”
Narrator: : In August 1968, Nelson Rockefeller went to Miami Beach to seek the Republican nomination for the third time.
旁白: 1968年8月,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒第三次前往迈阿密海滩寻求共和党提名。
There, his dream of reaching the White House effectively came to an end.
在那里,他入主白宫的梦想实际上结束了。
Jay: Rockefeller , IV : It was fated it was mathematically impossible.
杰伊:洛克菲勒,IV:这注定是数学上不可能的。
It was in the cards.
这是有可能的。
It was in the stars that he wasn't gonna get elected President or nominated to be President because he was a Republican and he was the wrong kind of Republican.
他不会当选总统或被提名为总统,因为他是共和党人,而且他是错误的共和党人,这是天注定的。
I don't mean to be uncharitable about that, but that's just the way it was.
我并不是有意对此无情,但事实就是如此。
Narrator: : The end of Nelson's presidential hopes denied the grandchildren of John D.
旁白::约翰·D·纳尔逊的孙辈们的总统希望落空了。
Rockefeller the final prize in their ascent to the pinnacle of American society.
洛克菲勒是他们登上美国社会顶峰的最终奖品。
But as they gathered in New York to be honored for their commitment to philanthropy, the Rockefeller brothers remained at the center of American life.
但当洛克菲勒兄弟齐聚纽约并因其对慈善事业的奉献而受到表彰时,他们仍然处于美国生活的中心。
From real estate in Manhattan to fishing docks in Venezuela, their holdings were vast and diverse.
从曼哈顿的房地产到委内瑞拉的渔港,他们拥有的资产数量庞大且多样化。
At a time when America was growing suspicious of wealth and power, the brothers had achieved a dangerous visibility.
当美国对财富和权力越来越怀疑时,兄弟俩却获得了危险的知名度。
John D., III, was a valued expert on Asian affairs.
约翰·D·三世 (John D., III) 是一位重要的亚洲事务专家。
Laurance was a leader in the field of conservation.
劳伦斯是保护领域的领导者。
David, now President of The Chase Manhattan Bank, was an ambassador for world capitalism.
现任大通曼哈顿银行行长的大卫是世界资本主义的大使。
Even Winthrop had become a public figure.
甚至温思罗普也成为了公众人物。
In 1966 he had been elected governor of Arkansas, the first Republican in 100 years.
1966年,他当选为阿肯色州州长,成为100年来第一位共和党人。
The success of Winrock Farm, his commitment to Arkansas development, and his name, had made him an irresistible candidate in the poor southern state.
温洛克农场的成功、他对阿肯色州发展的承诺以及他的名声,使他成为这个贫穷的南部州不可抗拒的候选人。
Robert: Douglass : Everybody knew him and called him Win, and he wasn't a great speaker, but he'd get up and he'd give this message about bringing the economy of Arkansas up and giving them opportunities for education and jobs.
罗伯特:道格拉斯:每个人都认识他,都叫他温,他不是一个出色的演讲者,但他会站起来,传达有关提振阿肯色州经济并为他们提供教育和就业机会的信息。
He had a great message.
他传达了一个伟大的信息。
When it was all over he said, "How did I do?" and I said I thought your speech was great.
一切结束后,他问道:“我做得怎么样?”我说我认为你的演讲很棒。
He said, "No, could you see my boots?" He'd always pull up his trousers he could see the WR brand on the boots to let 'em know he was one of the guys.
他说:“不,你能看到我的靴子吗?”他总是拉起裤子,因为他可以看到靴子上有 WR 品牌,让他们知道他是其中之一。
Narrator: : For this Rockefeller with the common touch, the prodigal son, "the odd man out" in the family, his election as governor meant much more than a political victory.
旁白:对于这位平易近人、浪子回头、家庭中的“异类”的洛克菲勒来说,当选州长不仅仅意味着政治上的胜利。
Winthrop Rockefeller (archival): : If I can do something to correct some of these things and get people as mad and excited as I am then I feel my great mother and father would be proud of me.
温思罗普·洛克菲勒(档案):如果我能做一些事情来纠正其中一些事情,并让人们像我一样疯狂和兴奋,那么我觉得我伟大的母亲和父亲会为我感到骄傲。
Narrator: : Babs too would have made her father proud.
旁白::巴布斯也会让她父亲感到骄傲。
Waiting until Junior's death to join her brothers as a philanthropist, she had become deeply involved in the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and in 1971 she donated Greenacre Park, a pastoral retreat in mid-Manhattan.
直到朱尼尔去世后,她才加入她的兄弟行列,成为一名慈善家,并深入参与了斯隆·凯特琳癌症中心,并于 1971 年捐赠了格林纳克公园,这是曼哈顿中部的一个田园度假胜地。
All five brothers attended the opening -- the last time they would all be together in public.
五兄弟都参加了开幕式——这是他们最后一次在公共场合齐聚。
In February 1973, the Rockefeller family gathered at Petite Jean Mountain in Arkansas for the funeral of Winthrop, who had died of cancer at age 61.
1973 年 2 月,洛克菲勒家族聚集在阿肯色州的小让山,为温思罗普举行葬礼,温思罗普因癌症去世,享年 61 岁。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : My memory goes back over the years to when we were children.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我的记忆可以追溯到我们还是孩子的时候。
The games, the chores, the rough houses, the fights.
游戏、家务、粗暴的房子、打架。
But always in the last analysis a united family.
但归根结底始终是一个团结的家庭。
Narrator: : Winthrop was the first Rockefeller in the third generation to pass away.
旁白::温思罗普是洛克菲勒第三代中第一个去世的人。
Babs would die three years later, also of cancer.
三年后,巴布斯也死于癌症。
Their deaths signaled the beginning of a painful transition to a new generation.
他们的死亡标志着向新一代的痛苦过渡的开始。
Steven: Rockefeller : The Cousins found that they could not no longer accept uncritically the role of being Rockefellers.
史蒂文:洛克菲勒:表兄弟发现他们无法再不加批判地接受洛克菲勒家族的角色。
Most of us went into our twenties in the 1960s.
我们大多数人在 20 世纪 60 年代都已步入二十多岁。
So we were caught up in a social environment that involved the Civil Rights Movement and the women's movement, the anti-war movement and if you took seriously these social movements, which all of us did, because we in a sense had been brought up to be morally concerned, socially concerned, then you had to question the history of the family and your own identity.
因此,我们陷入了一个涉及民权运动、妇女运动、反战运动的社会环境中,如果你认真对待这些社会运动,我们所有人都这样做,因为我们在某种意义上被教育成关注道德、关注社会,那么你就必须质疑家庭的历史和你自己的身份。
Peter: Collier, Biographer : A remarkable number of them want to change their family's name, they want to not be Rockefellers anymore, they want to -- in the case of the young women of the fourth generation -- they want to take their mothers' maiden name, they want to give away the money, they want to go live on a reservation, they want to go live in a boxcar someplace; they want out, they want out of that family.
彼得:科利尔,传记作者:他们中的很多人想改变家族的名字,他们不想再成为洛克菲勒家族的人,他们想——就第四代年轻女性而言——他们想继承母亲的娘家姓,他们想捐出钱,他们想住在保留地,他们想住在某个地方的棚车里;他们想要离开,他们想要离开那个家庭。
Peggy: Dulany : It was the radical student left days, and in many ways the name Rockefeller symbolized the Establishment, and what the student movement was about was anti-Establishment.
佩吉:杜拉尼:那是激进的学生左翼时代,洛克菲勒这个名字在很多方面都象征着当权派,而学生运动的目的就是反当权派。
There was no question that I felt the tension of being involved in a movement which was using my family name as a symbol.
毫无疑问,我感受到了参与一场以我的姓氏为象征的运动的紧张感。
And yet that was my name.
但这就是我的名字。
I mean that couldn't but create tension within me, and it did.
我的意思是,这只能在我内心造成紧张,而且确实如此。
Narrator: : It was Nelson Rockefeller who turned left wing animosity toward the family into rage.
旁白::是纳尔逊·洛克菲勒将左翼对其家族的敌意转化为愤怒。
In September 197.1 he ordered one thousand New York state troopers into the Attica state prison to put down an inmate revolt.
197.1年9月,他命令一千名纽约州警进入阿提卡州立监狱镇压囚犯叛乱。
Narrator: During four anxious days the nation was transfixed by images of 1300 barricaded inside Attica and the 38 prison guards they held hostage.
旁白:在这令人焦虑的四天里,1300 名囚犯被困在阿提卡,并被他们扣为人质的 38 名狱警的画面震惊了整个国家。
The inmates demanded better living conditions and a general amnesty for the takeover.
囚犯们要求改善生活条件,并要求对接管进行大赦。
On the fifth day of the siege, after they rejected a last appeal to release the hostages, the governor, who had monitored the crisis from his home in Kykuit , resolved to act.
围困的第五天,在他们拒绝释放人质的最后呼吁后,在基奎特家中监视危机的州长决定采取行动。
It was the bloodiest prison takeover in American history.
这是美国历史上最血腥的监狱接管事件。
Police and prison security gunfire killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages in less than six minutes.
警察和监狱保安开枪,在不到六分钟的时间里杀死了 29 名囚犯和 10 名人质。
Nelson Rockefeller, the man who ordered the attack, was held accountable.
下令发动袭击的纳尔逊·洛克菲勒被追究责任。
Protestors (archival): : Run Rocky, run Rocky, run Rocky run.
抗议者(档案)::跑洛基,跑洛基,跑洛基。
People of the world are picking up the gun...
全世界人民都拿起了枪……
Narrator: : Not since John D.
旁白::自从约翰·D.
Rockefeller, Jr. was called a murderer after the Ludlow massacre in 1914, had a Rockefeller faced so much hostility.
1914 年勒德洛大屠杀后,洛克菲勒面临如此多的敌意,小洛克菲勒被称为杀人犯。
Protestor (archival): : How many guards did you kill, how many guards?
抗议者(档案)::你们杀了多少守卫,多少守卫?
Protestor (archival): : I'm from the Attica Brigade, and I'd like to make a concrete proposal.
抗议者(档案)::我来自阿提卡旅,我想提出一个具体的建议。
Protestor (archival): : That the stuff that's going on at Stonybrook where I'm a student, where you floated a bond in order to pay for dormitories being built, which we have to pay off the interest on those bonds, which your brother's bank Chase Manhattan bought and is reaping the profits off that interest.
抗议者(档案)::我是学生的斯托尼布鲁克正在发生这样的事情,你在那里发行了债券以支付正在建造的宿舍的费用,我们必须偿还这些债券的利息,你兄弟的银行大通曼哈顿购买了这些债券,并从利息中获取利润。
I think that that's an outrage.
我认为这是一种愤怒。
You run the state like a corporation.
你像公司一样管理国家。
Protestor (archival): : There's a million questions that you're going to have to answer, Mr. Rockefeller.
抗议者(档案)::洛克菲勒先生,您必须回答一百万个问题。
Because you and your brothers, you're the ones that are the problem in this country.
因为你和你的兄弟,才是这个国家的问题所在。
Peter: Collier, Biographer : In these times when Marxism was taken seriously in America, they were seen as the lodestone, the rosetta stone.
彼得:科利尔,传记作者:在马克思主义在美国受到认真对待的时代,他们被视为磁石、罗塞塔石碑。
It's kind of cherchez les Rockefellers instead of cherchez la femme .
这是一种 cherchez les Rockefellers 而不是 cherchez la femme 。
It's find the Rockefellers and you understand power in America and how it works.
找到洛克菲勒家族,你就会了解美国的权力及其运作方式。
Nelson was the man, you know, making the assault on political power; David was the man that had the reins of economic power in this country.
你知道,纳尔逊就是那个对政治权力发起攻击的人。大卫是这个国家掌握经济权力的人。
He's operating in stealth, in secrecy, secret meetings.
他在秘密会议中秘密行动。
You saw him creating, presumably, détente through tools like Henry Kissinger.
你可能看到他通过亨利·基辛格等工具创造了缓和局势。
You saw him manipulating the world's economic markets, very much the image of the first John D.
你看到他操纵世界经济市场,这很像第一任约翰·D·肯尼迪总统的形象。
Rockefeller.
洛克菲勒。
Narrator: : From their perch at Pocantico Hills, the brothers weathered the storm of criticism.
旁白::兄弟俩在波坎蒂科山的栖息地经受住了批评的风暴。
Much like their grandfather’s a century before, their attitude seemed to be, "Let the world wag."
就像一个世纪前他们的祖父一样,他们的态度似乎是“让世界摇摆吧”。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : I have decided not to seek a fifth term as governor of New York.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我已决定不再寻求第五次担任纽约州州长。
I will resign next Tuesday after 15 years of service to the people of the state.
在为州人民服务了 15 年后,我将于下周二辞职。
Narrator: : On December 11, 1973, Nelson Rockefeller, weary of controversy retreated from public life.
旁白:1973 年 12 月 11 日,厌倦了争议的纳尔逊·洛克菲勒退出了公众生活。
The following summer, as he vacationed in Maine, the former governor received a telephone call that would drag the family back into the limelight.
第二年夏天,当这位前州长在缅因州度假时,他接到了一通电话,这让他的家人重新回到了聚光灯下。
It was August 17, 1974 -- two weeks since President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in the wake of Watergate.
那是 1974 年 8 月 17 日,距理查德·尼克松总统因水门事件而耻辱地辞职两周后。
The new president, Gerald Ford, asked Nelson Rockefeller to be his Vice President.
新总统杰拉尔德·福特邀请纳尔逊·洛克菲勒担任他的副总统。
Joseph: Persico : The last thing that Nelson Rockefeller ever wanted to be was vice president of anything.
约瑟夫:佩尔西科:纳尔逊·洛克菲勒最不想成为的副总统。
To be "standby equipment." He was not temperamentally suited for it.
成为“备用设备”。他的性格并不适合这样做。
He was a man who wanted to be in charge.
他是一个想要负责的人。
But the country was in the midst of a crisis and how could you say no when your President turns to you.
但国家正处于危机之中,当你的总统向你求助时,你怎么能拒绝呢。
So he did it.
所以他做到了。
But there was a more practical reason as well.
但还有一个更实际的原因。
He had behind him three failed bids as a candidate for his party's Presidential nomination, and this was the last game in town for him, this was the last card he could play.
作为本党总统候选人,他已经三度竞选失败,这是他在城里的最后一场比赛,这是他能打的最后一张牌。
Narrator: : Nelson Rockefeller arrived in eager to begin his new job.
旁白:纳尔逊·洛克菲勒来到这里,急切地开始他的新工作。
He expected his confirmation hearings to be a mere formality.
他预计他的确认听证会只是一个形式。
They were not.
他们不是。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : I have held public office under six presidents.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我曾在六位总统的领导下担任过公职。
I've been elected four times and served for 15 years as governor of the State of New York.
我曾四次当选纽约州州长并担任了 15 年。
I think the record speaks for itself.
我认为记录本身就说明了一切。
Narrator: : Initially the hearings focused on Nelson Rockefeller: back taxes owed, personal gifts to associates and friends, and a covert operation where Laurance financed a book critical of one of Nelson's political opponents.
旁白:最初,听证会的焦点是纳尔逊·洛克菲勒:补缴所欠税款、给同事和朋友的个人礼物,以及劳伦斯资助一本批评纳尔逊政治对手的书的秘密行动。
But far and away the issue that most interested Congress was Nelson Rockefeller's place as a member of what was thought to be America's wealthiest family.
但国会最感兴趣的问题无疑是纳尔逊·洛克菲勒作为美国最富有家族成员的地位。
Nelson Rockefeller (archival): : Am I the kind of man who would use his wealth improperly in public office, or more generally or more importantly would my family background limit and blind me so that I would not be able to see and serve the general good of all Americans?
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案):我是那种会在公职中不当使用自己的财富的人,或者更一般或更重要的是,我的家庭背景会限制和蒙蔽我,使我无法看到并为所有美国人的共同利益服务?
Peter: Johnson : It's really a relationship between money and power.
彼得:约翰逊:这确实是金钱和权力之间的关系。
How far do we trust individuals with great financial resources with the governance of a democratic society?
我们在多大程度上信任拥有大量财力的个人来治理民主社会?
Peter: Collier, Biographer : There’s been this notion of Rockefeller power that has been bandied about by the New Left and -- over a five- or a 10-year period, to the degree that it's kind of penetrated in some sense popular culture.
彼得:科利尔,传记作者:洛克菲勒权力的概念一直被新左派广泛传播——在五年或十年的时间里,它在某种意义上已经渗透到了流行文化中。
So when he comes finally for his crucial moment, for his interrogation, there's a sense, okay, we're going to get a chance to see this power at last, this power that's been hidden for two generations now, and the power in the form of money.
因此,当他最终来到关键时刻,接受审讯时,有一种感觉,好吧,我们终于有机会看到这种力量,这种已经隐藏了两代人的力量,以及以金钱形式存在的力量。
Narrator: : Congress asked Nelson to disclose not only the extent of his own finances, but those of the entire family.
旁白:国会要求纳尔逊不仅披露他自己的财务状况,还要披露整个家庭的财务状况。
Robert: Douglass : And I said, "Look, Governor, this is a major invasion of privacy.
罗伯特:道格拉斯:我说,“听着,州长,这是对隐私的重大侵犯。
This is the occasion, if you want out of this process, this is the event that I think you can say, 'You can take this job and you know what you can do with it." And I said: "This is, this is the time to exit." And he looked at me and he said, "No," he said, he said, "I'm going to go through with this."
这是一个机会,如果你想退出这个过程,我想你可以在这个事件中说,‘你可以接受这份工作,你知道你能用它做什么。’”我说:“现在,现在是退出的时候了。”他看着我,说,“不,”他说,“我要完成这件事。”
Narrator: : "Not since Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry," wrote the New York Times , "have the inhabitants of any town itched to see something hidden as people here now desire to see the extent of the Rockefeller fortune."
旁白:“自从戈黛娃夫人赤身裸体穿过考文垂的街道以来,”《纽约时报》写道,“没有哪个城镇的居民像现在渴望看到洛克菲勒财富的规模那样渴望看到隐藏的东西。”
Speculation was rampant.
猜测甚嚣尘上。
Estimates of the Rockefeller's financial holdings ranged from five billion to 60 billion dollars.
洛克菲勒家族的金融资产估计在 50 亿至 600 亿美元之间。
Archival: : They do recognize that questions have been raised whether the financial holdings of this family or the manner in which they are managed present a conflict of interest...
档案::他们确实认识到,有人提出了这个家庭的金融资产或管理方式是否存在利益冲突的问题......
Narrator: : Nelson’s vice presidential hearings exploded the myth of the Rockefellers as a family of enormous wealth.
旁白:纳尔逊的副总统听证会打破了洛克菲勒家族作为巨额财富家族的神话。
The family office disclosed that the Rockefellers’ combined worth was 1.3 billion dollars, far below even the most conservative estimates.
家族办公室透露,洛克菲勒家族的总资产为 13 亿美元,远低于最保守的估计。
Yet, as one observer noted, "the point was not that they lacked power, but that their power lay elsewhere"; in their connections in business, politics, and world affairs and the mystique of the Rockefeller name.
然而,正如一位观察家指出的那样,“问题不在于他们缺乏权力,而在于他们的权力在别处”;他们在商业、政治和世界事务中的联系以及洛克菲勒这个名字的神秘性。
On December 19, 1974, Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in.
1974年12月19日,纳尔逊·洛克菲勒宣誓就职。
For a job he'd once dismissed as "standby equipment," he paid a huge prize.
对于一项他曾经认为是“备用设备”的工作,他付出了巨额报酬。
Peter: Johnson : Some of the brothers were concerned that Nelson had brought publicity to the family that was not necessary, that questioning the motives and impugning the integrity of family members and its institutions was simply wrong, and that he had sacrificed the good name of these institutions and their reputation for his own political career.
彼得:约翰逊:一些兄弟担心纳尔逊给家族带来了不必要的宣传,质疑动机并质疑家族成员及其机构的诚信是完全错误的,而且他为了自己的政治生涯牺牲了这些机构的好名声和声誉。
Narrator: : Nelson's tenure was frustratingly short-lived.
旁白:纳尔逊的任期非常短暂,令人沮丧。
In November 1975, as Gerald Ford prepared to campaign for president, he dropped Nelson Rockefeller from the ticket under pressure from the Republican right wing.
1975 年 11 月,当杰拉尔德·福特准备竞选总统时,在共和党右翼的压力下,他将纳尔逊·洛克菲勒从竞选名单中剔除。
Nelson Rockefeller (Archival): : I understand all of the reasons these different things happened.
纳尔逊·洛克菲勒(档案)::我理解这些不同事情发生的所有原因。
And you get ...
你得到...
Why burn up energy on getting upset?
为什么心烦意乱时会消耗能量?
Joseph: Persico : He went back home to New York, never gave another dime to the Republican Party, never made another speech on behalf of anybody in the party.
约瑟夫:佩尔西科:他回到了纽约的家,再也没有给共和党一毛钱,也没有代表党内任何人发表过演讲。
His turning his back on public life to me seemed to mark a real change of direction.
在我看来,他对公共生活的背弃似乎标志着方向的真正转变。
It had meant so much to him before.
以前这对他来说意义重大。
Narrator: : In his retirement, Nelson Rockefeller reminded his speech writer of "The Old King," a painting by French Master Georges Roualt.
旁白::退休后的纳尔逊·洛克菲勒让他的演讲撰稿人想起了法国大师乔治·鲁阿尔特的画作《老国王》。
"...
“……
the eyes bare slits, the chin firmly set in an ancient defiance ...
眼睛裸露在外,下巴坚定地表现出一种古老的挑衅……
as remote as a lost planet ...
像失落的星球一样遥远......
In [Nelson's] case ...
在[纳尔逊]的情况下......
a prince who had grown old and who had never inherited the kingdom."
一位年老的王子,从未继承过王国。”
Narrator: : Nelson Rockefeller returned to the family offices, expecting yet again to take the reins of the Rockefeller family.
旁白:纳尔逊·洛克菲勒回到家族办公室,期望再次掌管洛克菲勒家族。
The brothers had always stepped aside for Nelson, but this time John III, the bypassed older brother, the one most disturbed by the way Nelson's ambition had exposed the family, finally stood up to retake his dynastic place.
兄弟俩总是为纳尔逊让路,但这一次,约翰三世,这位被绕过的哥哥,对纳尔逊的野心暴露了家族的方式感到最不安的人,终于站起来重新夺回了他的王朝地位。
Peter: Johnson : They, they had had a number of arguments in brothers' meetings.
彼得:约翰逊:他们,他们在弟兄聚会上有过很多争论。
John said that, "You told me a long time ago that there were two things that you wanted to, above all things: you wanted to be President of the United States and you wanted to be the leader of the Rockefeller family.
约翰说:“你很久以前就告诉我,你想做两件事,最重要的是:你想成为美国总统,你想成为洛克菲勒家族的领袖。
You have failed in your first objective and if you don't mend your ways, you will fail in your second objective." And by the summer of 1977, John and Nelson were not talking to one another.
你的第一个目标已经失败,如果你不改正,你的第二个目标也会失败。”到了 1977 年夏天,约翰和尼尔森就不再互相交谈了。
Narrator: : The Rockefeller family was coming apart.
旁白::洛克菲勒家族正在分崩离析。
In the 1970s, some of the cousins joined the assault of the left against the Rockefeller brothers.
20世纪70年代,一些表兄弟加入了左派对洛克菲勒兄弟的攻击。
Peter: Collier, Biographer : I was, I guess it's fair to say, at the heart of the New Left at that time.
彼得:传记作者科利尔:公平地说,我当时是新左派的核心人物。
I was an editor of Ramparts magazine which was a kind of interoffice memorandum of the New Left, if you will.
我是《城墙》杂志的编辑,如果你愿意的话,这是一种新左派的办公室间备忘录。
And one of the staples, of course, in Ramparts journalism was the Rockefellers.
当然,壁垒新闻界的主要人物之一就是洛克菲勒家族。
And one of the -- actually the most fruitful sources of fundraising for us were the Rockefeller kids; that is, the children of Nelson and David and Laurance, gave us money, in effect, so that we could write these, um, these searing pieces about their fathers and uncles.
事实上,对我们来说最富有成效的筹款来源之一就是洛克菲勒的孩子们;也就是说,纳尔逊、大卫和劳伦斯的孩子们给了我们钱,实际上,这样我们就可以写这些,嗯,这些关于他们的父亲和叔叔的灼热的文章。
Narrator: : In 1976, the cousins went public with their grievances in a tell-all book written by Ramparts editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz.
旁白: 1976 年,Ramparts 编辑彼得·科利尔 (Peter Collier) 和大卫·霍洛维茨 (David Horowitz) 撰写的一本揭露真相的书中,表兄弟公开表达了他们的不满。
It described the Rockefellers as a family "having an abundance of everything except feelings."
它将洛克菲勒家族描述为一个“除了感情之外一切都很丰富”的家庭。
"Their own children are pulling down the curtain ...
“他们自己的孩子正在拉下帷幕......
[with] stunning declarations," wrote The Washington Post.
[带着]令人震惊的声明,”《华盛顿邮报》写道。
Peggy: Dulany : My father's generation was quite understandably very upset that their dirty laundry was being aired in public, and there was -- they were upset because of some of the things that we said and meant, and then they were also upset because of some of the distortions that appeared in the book, and also some of the things that we thought we'd said off the record that then got published.
佩吉:杜拉尼:我父亲那一代人对他们的肮脏丑闻被公之于众感到非常不安,这是可以理解的,他们因为我们所说和意味着的一些事情而感到不安,然后他们也因为书中出现的一些扭曲,以及一些我们认为我们私下说过但后来出版的事情而感到不安。
Narrator: : Nelson was the angriest of the brothers.
旁白::纳尔逊是兄弟中最愤怒的一个。
He called the cousins "disloyal, ungrateful, and irresponsible," and with few exceptions, incapable of being entrusted with the family institutions.
他称这对表兄弟“不忠诚、忘恩负义、不负责任”,而且除了极少数例外,他们没有能力将家族机构托付给他们。
David: Rockefeller , Sr : It was hurtful, and I think for a brief time probably did create more damage than was necessary.
大卫:老洛克菲勒:这很伤人,我认为在很短的时间内可能造成了超出必要的损害。
I won't say that it didn't strain our relations, but at no time did we ever, in any way, break relations with the children.
我不会说这没有使我们的关系变得紧张,但我们从来没有以任何方式破坏与孩子们的关系。
They always were free to come home.
他们总是可以自由地回家。
Some of them wanted to come home and tell us why we should believe in communism, or some other "ism" that we didn't believe in, and they were not necessarily pleasant conversations, but at least they felt free to do it.
他们中的一些人想回家告诉我们为什么我们应该相信共产主义,或者其他一些我们不相信的“主义”,他们的谈话不一定是愉快的,但至少他们觉得可以自由地这样做。
Laurance: Rockefeller : Each generation has to challenge the values and the appearances of their parents and make them theirs in order to come back and conform.
劳伦斯:洛克菲勒:每一代人都必须挑战父母的价值观和外表,并将其纳入自己的价值观和外表,以便回归并顺从。
So unfortunately, these growing pains all went public.
不幸的是,这些成长的烦恼都被公之于众了。
[Laughter] And it was a humbling situation for everybody, particularly for the participants.
[笑声] 这对每个人来说都是一个令人羞愧的情况,特别是对参与者来说。
Narrator: : The cousins would in time make their peace with the Rockefeller family.
旁白::表兄弟最终会与洛克菲勒家族和解。
But John D., III and Nelson never had an opportunity to reconcile.
但约翰·D·三世和纳尔逊从未有机会和解。
John III died in a car accident near his home in Pocantico, in July 1978.
1978 年 7 月,约翰三世在波坎蒂科家附近的一场车祸中丧生。
His brother Nelson survived him by only six months.
他的兄弟纳尔逊仅比他活了六个月。
Joseph: Persico : It was a Friday night in 1979, and I had gone to bed, and half asleep received a phone call from a fellow former Rockefeller colleague and friend who said he'd just heard on the news that Nelson Rockefeller had died, and the report was that he had died on a Friday at his office, it was roughly nine o'clock.
约瑟夫:佩尔西科:那是 1979 年的一个星期五晚上,我已经上床睡觉了,半梦半醒间接到了一位前洛克菲勒同事兼朋友的电话,他说他刚刚听到纳尔逊·洛克菲勒去世的消息,报道说他是星期五在他的办公室去世的,当时大约是九点钟。
Newsreel (archival): : The former vice president had returned to his office at the RCA building following dinner to work on his art collection...
新闻片(档案)::晚餐后,这位前副总统回到了 RCA 大楼的办公室,处理他的艺术收藏......
...returned to his office to work on a book about art.
...回到他的办公室写一本关于艺术的书。
A security guard discovered him slumped over his desk shortly after ten o'clock last night.
昨晚十点刚过,一名保安发现他倒在办公桌上。
Joseph: Persico : And I remember turning to my wife and saying, "I observed the rhythms of this man's life for 11 years, there was no way that he was working at the office at nine o'clock on a Friday evening."
约瑟夫:佩尔西科:我记得转向我的妻子说:“我观察这个人的生活节奏长达 11 年,他不可能在周五晚上九点在办公室工作。”
Narrator: : In the days that followed, politicians and editorial writers eulogized Nelson Rockefeller's distinguished public career.
旁白::在接下来的日子里,政治家和社论作家歌颂纳尔逊·洛克菲勒杰出的公共事业。
Henry: Kissinger (archival) : Nelson Rockefeller was a universal man.
亨利:基辛格(档案):纳尔逊·洛克菲勒是一个多才多艺的人。
He had an interest in art, he had an interest in politics, he had an interest in education, and all of it came from his conviction that he had an obligation for service.
他对艺术感兴趣,对政治感兴趣,对教育感兴趣,所有这一切都源于他坚信自己有服务义务。
Narrator: : Then, day by day, the story of Nelson's death, became clouded by scandal.
旁白: :随后,纳尔逊之死的故事一天天被丑闻所笼罩。
The public had been misled.
公众被误导了。
Rockefeller had in fact died at 13 West 54th Street, his Manhattan townhouse, not at his office at Rockefeller Center.
事实上,洛克菲勒是在他位于曼哈顿的联排别墅西 54 街 13 号去世的,而不是在他位于洛克菲勒中心的办公室。
Joe: Persico : It became known that he had been alone with a young woman who worked for him in undeniably intimate circumstances, and in the course of that evening had died from a heart attack.
乔:佩尔西科:众所周知,他曾与一名为他工作的年轻女子单独相处,她在不可否认的亲密环境中,并在那天晚上死于心脏病发作。
Narrator: : A week after his death, a memorial service was held at The Riverside Church.
旁白: :他去世一周后,在河滨教堂举行了追悼会。
Among those attending were two presidents and a vice-president.
出席者中有两名主席和一名副主席。
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a long-time friend delivered the eulogy.
国务卿亨利·基辛格,他的老朋友发表了悼词。
Narrator: : Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was buried at the northwest corner of Pocantico.
旁白::纳尔逊·奥尔德里奇·洛克菲勒被埋葬在波坎蒂科的西北角。
Near the golf course where John D.
靠近约翰·D.
Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and maker of the great fortune had played.
标准石油公司的创始人、巨额财富的创造者洛克菲勒也曾参加过比赛。
The gardens Junior, the philanthropist who redeemed the family, had cherished.
拯救家庭的慈善家朱尼尔非常珍惜这座花园。
The sculptures that Nelson, the third and final lord of Kykuit , had so boldly placed.
基奎特第三代也是最后一位领主纳尔逊如此大胆地放置了这些雕塑。
For a century, the Rockefellers occupied a unique place as one of America’s most influential and controversial families.
一个世纪以来,洛克菲勒家族作为美国最具影响力和争议性的家族之一,占据着独特的地位。
Three generations had left their mark on history.
三代人在历史上留下了自己的印记。
It would fall to a fourth generation to find a way forward.
寻找前进的道路将落在第四代的肩上。
Steven: Rockefeller : Why do we want to preserve this power?
史蒂文:洛克菲勒:我们为什么要保留这种权力?
Why do we want to devote our lives to maintaining all these institutions that have been created by the family?
为什么我们要奉献一生来维护这些由家庭创建的机构?
We came to realize that the real problem was the integration of power and goodness.
我们逐渐意识到真正的问题是力量与善良的整合。
And that if the family was going to continue to work together, philanthropic commitments and values would be at the center.
如果家庭要继续共同努力,慈善承诺和价值观将成为核心。
Peggy: Dulany : Everyone recognizes that not any one, and even not all of us, can do everything, obviously, but I think each of us has a drive to contribute in some way to that mission.
佩吉:杜拉尼:显然,每个人都认识到,不是任何人,甚至不是我们所有人,都可以做所有事情,但我认为我们每个人都有动力以某种方式为这一使命做出贡献。
Rodman: Rockefeller : It's a family which is very much trying to continue some traditions, at the same time starting others.
罗德曼:洛克菲勒:这个家族非常努力地延续一些传统,同时开创其他传统。
It remains to be seen how well we do.
我们做得如何还有待观察。
After a courtship that lasted five years, Abby Aldrich married John D.
经过五年的求爱后,艾比·奥尔德里奇与约翰·D·奥尔德里奇结婚。
Rockefeller at a lavish wedding ceremony on Warwick Neck, Rhode Island on October 9, 1901.
1901 年 10 月 9 日,洛克菲勒在罗德岛州沃里克颈举行了一场奢华的婚礼。
The so-called Cleveland Massacre was the beginning of John D.
所谓的克利夫兰大屠杀是约翰·D·肯尼迪的开始。
Rockefeller's drive toward an oil monopoly.
洛克菲勒推动石油垄断。
"I was not a writer, and I knew it," Ida Tarbell declared once, recalling her beginnings in journalism.
“我不是作家,我知道这一点,”艾达·塔贝尔有一次回忆起她从事新闻业的经历时说道。
Here is a sample of the appeals (with original spelling and grammar retained) that drove Rockefeller to seek more organized and efficient ways to donate his money.
以下是促使洛克菲勒寻求更有组织、更有效的捐赠方式的呼吁样本(保留原始拼写和语法)。
Almost 25 years after the fact, Diego Rivera writes his own version of the controversy over the Rockefeller Center mural
事件发生近 25 年后,迭戈·里维拉 (Diego Rivera) 针对洛克菲勒中心壁画争议撰写了自己的版本
Rockefeller's correspondence with his docile son John D.
洛克菲勒与他温顺的儿子约翰·D·洛克菲勒的通信
Jr. is surprisingly eloquent.
Jr.的口才出奇的好。
Between the lines, these letters reveal the strong personalities and the sometimes strained relationships of these two very different Rockefellers.
这些信件的字里行间揭示了这两个截然不同的洛克菲勒家族的强烈个性和有时紧张的关系。
In all its Victorian restraint, Rockefeller's correspondence with his rebellious daughter Edith is surprisingly eloquent.
尽管充满了维多利亚时代的克制,洛克菲勒与他叛逆的女儿伊迪丝的通信却出人意料地雄辩。
A lot more than 2,000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at Ludlow.
1914 年 4 月 20 日星期一,第一枪向拉德洛发射,洛克菲勒庄园与南科罗拉多州相距 2,000 多英里。
Imagine the conversation these two headstrong characters would have had — Ida Tarbell and John D.
想象一下这两个任性的人物——艾达·塔贝尔和约翰·D·塔贝尔——的对话。
Rockefeller, Sr.
老洛克菲勒
A true original, Edith used her intelligence, extravagance and stubbornness to face up to her intimidating father, John D.
伊迪丝是一位真正的原创者,她用自己的智慧、奢侈和固执来面对她令人生畏的父亲约翰·D·肯尼迪。
Rockefeller, Sr.
老洛克菲勒
Gates worked with Rockefeller to develop a system to ensure that his philanthropic donations were put to the best possible use.
盖茨与洛克菲勒合作开发了一个系统,以确保他的慈善捐款得到最佳利用。
Watch the opening scene of The Rockefellers .
观看洛克菲勒家族的开幕场景。