Patriotic Philanthropy with Billionaire and Public Citizen David Rubenstein
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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Young David Rubenstein was an Democratic aide in the Senate and in Carter's White House. After that he started a hugely successful private equity firm. Now he is a major philanthropist with a special emphasis on public good in Washington DC. His third book is The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream. He's one of the rare liberal billionaires.
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| 1:07.6 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. It's true that the top 1% of wealthy Americans have reaped most of the benefits of economic growth in recent years. |
| 1:11.9 | But it's also true that a growing percentage of wealthy Americans in the spirit of Andrew |
| 1:16.8 | Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller have become leading philanthropists, giving more and more of |
| 1:22.5 | their wealth away to good causes. And one of the leading new American philanthropist is David Rubenstein, |
| 1:29.3 | founder of the Carlisle Group, who has devoted much of his fortune to what he calls |
| 1:35.3 | patriotic philanthropy. In Washington, among other institutions, Rubenstein's a leading benefactor |
| 1:42.3 | of the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Museums, the Washington Mall, and Washington Monument, and the National Zoo. |
| 1:52.0 | He also hosts his own interview show on Bloomberg Television and recently published a fascinating collection of his interviews with outstanding Americans called the American Experiment. |
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