MR. ROCKEFELLER:		Well, let me ask you one, Lowell. Why are you manager of that softball team — those Nine Old Men?
MR. THOMAS:		Because I like baseball, especially softball.
MR. ROCKEFELLER:		So do I. And in just the same way, I like streamlined trains and automobiles, mural paintings, sculpture in a garden, photography, architecture, posters, fashions, motion pictures --
MR. THOMAS:		I see, add them all up and you have modern art.
MR. ROCKEFELLER:		Exactly. I’m interested in the things that make modern civilization and the American machine age better looking and so I like to visit the Museum of Modern Art, and see those things there. It’s an adventure. And so many other countries are represented, it’s almost like taking a trip around the world.
MR. THOMAS:		How many traveling exhibitions of modern art does the Museum keep on the go?
MR. ROCKEFELLER:		Just now, twenty-four — and they’re one of the best thing we have. I also think the Film Library — preserving the history of the movies — is a great thing. I like the service the Museum gives its nationwide membership — the publications -- the bulletins.
MR. THOMAS:		In other words, Nelson, you like the Museum of Modern Art. And then I understand that your mother, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. is a founder of the Museum.
MR. ROCKEFELLER:		Yes, she was, and it’s one of her greatest interests today.
MR. THOMAS:		Naturally, there’s plenty of reason for your becoming the Museum president."
		Excerpt from radio program, May 10, 1939