Preston Robert Tisch

• 1983: Preston Robert Tisch, Chairman of Loew's, claimed to be personal friends with Donald Trump. “‘Donald Trump became a controversial person and it worked for him,’ said the 57-year-old Preston Robert Tisch, president of the Loew's Corporation, and Mr. Trump's opponent on two bitterly contested real estate projects in New York - now a good friend.” (New York Times, August 7, 1983)