Overall impression: The Rockefeller Rolodex collection embodies the ultimate expression of communication in the analog age. During a lunch at his estate in 2015, Mr. Rockefeller gave Mr. Kissinger a copy of his 35 Rolodex cards. JFK, the first card said, “is a brother.”“She was more important than JFK’’ because Mr. Rockefeller had dated her, Mr. Johnson said. David Rockefeller’s Rolodex cards have been transferred to file drawers. “The building blocks of history end up being constructed from material like the Rolodex cards,” Mr. Johnson said.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 05, 2017 17:23 UTC