David Rockefeller Western nations. Rockefeller donated $100 million to Harvard University in 2008. "The New York Times" estimated in November 2006 that his total charitable donations amount to $900 million over his lifetime, a figure that was substantiated by a monograph on the family's overall benefactions, entitled "The Chronicle of Philanthropy". He published "Memoirs" in 2002, the only time a member of the Rockefeller family has written an autobiography. Rockefeller was a noted internationalist. Rockefeller's will requires his estate, once assets are liquidated, to donate over $700 million to various non-profits, including Rockefeller University, the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard. The
Rockefeller Republican "A lot of people considered Rockefeller very liberal and very dovish on foreign policy, but he was not. He was harder than Nixon, and a lot more hawkish about the mission of America in the world." The term largely fell out of use by the end of the twentieth century and has been replaced by the term "moderate Republican". Rockefeller Republicans were typically moderate to center-right economically, vehemently rejected conservatives like Barry Goldwater, and had social policies that were often culturally liberal. They espoused government and private investments in environmentalism, healthcare and higher education as necessities for a better society