David Koch once told the Wall Street Journal that he'd rather donate money to a good cause rather than "
use it on buying a bigger house or a $150 million painting." Unlike the Obama family, clearly.
So to whom did David Koch donate?
$185 Million - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for cancer research, childcare center, biology building, and school of chemical engineering.
$150 Million - Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The biggest gift the center ever received.
$128 Million - New York Presbyterian Hospital
$100 Million - New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
$66.7 Million - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$
65 Million - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$35 Million - Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
$26.5 Million - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
$26.2 Million - The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York
$20 Million - American Museum of Natural History
$20 Million - Johns Hopkins University, for a cancer research center.
None of this remarkable and selfless generosity matters, of course, to those on the Left who defined David Koch as one of the worst of the "evil rich," and someone who "doesn't pay his fair share."
We look at it differently, and with the utmost in respect and gratitude. Rest In Peace, Mr. Koch, and thank you.