David M. Rubenstein to Deliver 2014 George Mason U. Commencement Address
I like this guy. If I ever run into him in downtown DC, I'd like to shake his hand. He lent his copy of Magna Carta to the National Archives for all to see. Also, he is picking up the tab, or at least part of it, for the repair of the damage done to the Washingon Monument during the earthquake of 2011.
David M. Rubenstein to Deliver 2014 Mason Commencement Address
Posted: March 27, 2014 at 5:02 am, Last Updated: March 26, 2014 at 6:25 pm
David M. Rubenstein, the co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group global asset management firm, will deliver the Commencement address to the Class of 2014 at George Mason University. ... A man whose storied career has taken him into the realms of law, politics, high finance and philanthropy will deliver the address on Saturday, May 17, at 10 a.m. at the Patriot Center on George Masons Fairfax Campus. He will also receive an honorary doctor of humane letters.
Rubenstein has practiced law, worked in the White House with President Jimmy Carter and helped start a private equity firm that today manages more than $176 billion in locations around the world.
He is chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has served on numerous boards for nonprofit institutions in the arts, education, medicine and museums. He is also an avid collector who has acquired several historic publications: the 1297 Magna Carta; the Bay Psalm Book, one of the oldest printed books known; and copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Declaration of Independence.
Rubenstein is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated in 1973 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.
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Magna Carta Returns to Display at the National Archives
Only four originals of the 1297 Magna Carta remain. By the 17th century, the one shown here was in the possession of the Brudenell family, the earls of Cardigan. It was acquired by the Perot Foundation in 1984 and purchased by David M. Rubenstein in 2007. David Rubenstein has placed Magna Carta on loan to the National Archives as a gift to the American people.