Editing C. Douglas Dillon (section)

==Philanthropy==
A close friend of [[John D. Rockefeller III]], he was chairman of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] from 1972 to 1975.  He also served alongside John Rockefeller on the 1973 [[Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs]], and under Nelson Rockefeller in the [[United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States|Rockefeller Commission]] to investigate CIA activities. He served as president of [[Harvard Board of Overseers]], chairman of the [[Brookings Institution]], and vice chairman of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref name=NYTObit/>

===Metropolitan Museum of Art===
With his first wife, Dillon collected [[Impressionist art]]. He was a longtime trustee of the [[Metropolitan Museum]], serving as its President (1970–1977) and then chairman.<ref name=NYTObit/> He built up its [[Chinese art|Chinese]] galleries and served as a member of the [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial|Museum's Centennial]] committee.<ref>[http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/Trescher_Centennial_records_b18234550.pdf Finding aid for the George Trescher records related to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial, 1949, 1960-1971 (bulk 1967-1970)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412110104/http://libmma.org/digital_files/archives/Trescher_Centennial_records_b18234550.pdf |date=2019-04-12 }}. [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. Retrieved 5 August 2014.</ref> He personally donated $20 million to the museum and led a fundraising campaign, which raised an additional $100 million.<ref name="Jackson2003"/>

He received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom|Medal of Freedom]] in 1989.