HOW BIG OIL CONQUERED THE WORLD ~ James Corbett https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/ ......... He was aided in this task by Frederick Taylor Gates, a Baptist minister that Rockefeller befriended in 1889 and who would go on to be John D.’s most trusted philanthropic adviser. Gates would go on to write a short tract, “The Country School of Tomorrow,” that laid out the Rockefeller plan for education ...........