David served as President and Director of Marketing for the firm's five offices and forty agents until recently when he handed stewardship over to his two sons.
When Trump became president, he took stewardship of the federal government and all the programs it runs.
He said he viewed his stewardship of the district as a chance to give something back.
"There should not be infighting like this in the future," he said as he handed over stewardship of Koyasan to Mr. Soeda.
A brief telephone interview with Mr. Chandler offered a sharp contrast to the anger he showed last fall when he denounced the stewardship of Mark H. Willes, the chief executive of Times Mirror, and The Times's publisher, Kathryn Downing, during the Staples Center controversy.
He defends his stewardship in the State Senate, saying he worked vigorously to create a bill, signed into law last month, that imposes harsher sentences on criminals in New York who single out their victims on the basis of sexual orientation, race, religion or age.
Advancing age and, let's be truthful, whiskey's manacles, would slow Sunny down, and he gradually passed stewardship of the bar to his wife, Tone, while he retreated to his room upstairs, taking up brush and pen and pencil with a zeal he hadn't possessed in many years.
When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, and after his death gave it to Carey's sons Henry and Thomas.
"It feels like a stewardship," he said.
So there's better stewardship," he added.
