he saw the buildings here in eroding so he reached out to john d rockefeller junior and enlisted his support in restoring 18th century williamsburg. the reverend chose well and wisely, and john d rockefeller and the rockefeller family have been supporters ever since. >> what goes into preserving the buildings today and making it function on an everyday basis? mitchell: as the question suggests, it really is quite a challenge because we do not want people to just look and not touch. we want people to go into the buildings, to see the art and artifacts, to understand what it really meant to live, to go to school, to dine in the 18th century. we have to be very mindful of the legacy that we need to preserve. we have some of the country's leading experts, archaeologists who unearthed the history but preservationists and conservationists to make sure we continue to stuart this inheritance for future generations. >> commission for colonial williamsburg is so the future -- the mission for colonial williamsburg's so the future will learn from the past. mitchell: that motto goes to the heart o

john d. rockefeller.ndard oil company was an industrial empire that controlled 90% of america's oil production and 85% of its sales. standard bought pacific at the turn of the century. in 1901, the richmond refinery in san francisco bay was completed. now the west coast had its own supply of gasoline, lubricants, and petroleum products. in 1907, standard oil opened its first drive-in gas station in seattle. but the u.s. government judged standard oil too powerful and accused it of running an illegal monopoly. a supreme court ruling in 1911 broke the company into 34 parts. one, standard oil of california, or socal, borrowed the three v-shaped stripes from a sergeant's uniform and turned them into a brand -- chevron. in the 1930's, socal discovered oil in bahrain and saudi arabia and formed a marketing joint venture with texaco. they called it caltex. this was the pre-opec era, when seven private oil companies, the seven sisters, controlled most of the world's crude reserves and productions. in 1984, with t

the john d rockefeller library, i would direct you to one of our fine librarians there. we have a special collection department and the number of maps showing the evolution of williamsburg as a place from the very beginning to today. developinge people researched theve history of surveying in virginia and elsewhere. have folks who portray early surveyors, so you could speak to our librarians, who can work with you to identify any collections that might be of you may be able to speak to someone who portrays in a concentric surveyor to gain -- and 18th-century surveyor to gain greater appreciation of the trials into relations of their life in the 18th century, quite adventurous apparently. also colonial williamsburg has american indian initiative, can you talk about that and the stories of the native people there? guest: sure. thank you. you cannot relate american history, convey american history without conveying american indian history and native american history. several years ago, we started the american indian initiative at the foundation under the guidance of trained

he saw the buildings here in eroding so he reached out to john d rockefeller junior and enlisted his support in restoring 18th century williamsburg. the reverend chose well and wisely, and john d rockefeller and the rockefeller family have been supporters ever since. >> what goes into preserving the buildings today and making it function on an everyday basis? mitchell: as the question suggests, it really is quite a challenge because we do not want people to just look and not touch. we want people to go into the buildings, to see the art and artifacts, to understand what it really meant to live, to go to school, to dine in the 18th century. we have to be very mindful of the legacy that we need to preserve. we have some of the country's leading experts, archaeologists who unearthed the history but preservationists and conservationists to make sure we continue to stuart this inheritance for future generations. >> commission for colonial williamsburg is so the future -- the mission for colonial williamsburg's so the future will learn from the past. mitchell: that motto goes to the heart o

john d rockefeller's son married the daughter of aldrich of rhode island, the greatest politician in the united states. so the great moneymaker and to the greatest politician and in ldricharriage produced a rockefeller, vice president of the united states. this is constantly changing. not is partly -- it may service these people. this is the world they live in and worked in. ,ou take a family, howard baker wonderful senator and so forth. .is father was a congressman when his father died, his mother took the seat, which is often the case, widow succession. somebody wrote a book that was called, "over his dead body." so he had a mother and father in into theand he married family of the leader of the party and they had children. one child ran for office and did not make it. and she died and he married griffith. a sender from kansas -- senator from kansas, his father -- whose father ran for president. look at that collection of people, not because they were seeking power, it was just how they lived. it was you you went to dinner with -- who you went to dinner with, who they enjoyed. i see

john d. rockefeller jr.'s land donations that were the catalyst for creating maine's acadia national park and our national park system, which many believe to be one of america's greatest ideas. >> national parks system is a great combination of public and private effort, and certainly is the case in everything that we're working on, so you can't separate out the necessity, the urgency, the private sector, individuals. and i don't care if they have a lot of money, if they have a little money, that is not the point. >> reporter: like the conservation versus development battles in the u.s. and elsewhere, not all chileans have shared the tompkins' conservation vision. over the years they've been buffeted by shifting political winds. many of them generated by opposition rumors that they were trying to divide the country in half, and the ones about creating a doomsday refuge and an american nuclear waste site. it was a pro-development plan to dam the local rivers and run hydroelectric power lines through their park

john d. rockefeller, he was giving dimes away. henry ford followed in his wake.ndrew carnegie, his money in the final years of his life, he gave away 20,000 church organs, 3,000 libraries. they all came at the end. even gates and buffet. it was quite late. ted turner had to provoke them. >> bill, i wonder if it's a function of as jeff is suggesting that technology and the fact with social media you can make so much money so young as a programmer or however you term it or it's about a different generation that sees the importance of living their life in balance and giving back as they go, which is what i would experience talking to tech entrepreneurs in new york, then i read the notes for the interview, and see you meditate for 40 years, and meditate for 20 minutes before you get on board every flight. is this a generational thing or a technology thing? >> i think it's a generational thing. i think the millennials are very focused on giving back. they looked at a lot of the baby boomer generation as more focused on themselves and building up wealth. and maybe givi