The world which we have worked to construct is threatened. The gravity of this moment, when Mr. McNamara and others are about to leave their posts while a new administration re-examines American foreign aid policy, is great. If we are going to save the international institutions we have put in place, the moment is now or never, for the struggle between the old guard and the new is going to go far beyond the reduction of capital appropriations. . . . Rockefeller is worried here that Reagan could reduce foreign aid and dismantle the rudiments of the world government the conspiracy is building, the international institutions we have put in place.. . . It is going to endanger the new world order which we have based on the alliance between Wall Street and Washington. . . . . Now radical conservatives are attempting to destroy all that in seeking first and foremost to serve the national interests of the United States.

-David Rockefeller

The Other End of the World, by Roger Rusk; Knoxville, Plantation House, 1988, p. 206