According to Dodd, he was called to meet Ford Foundation administrator Horace Rowan Gaither, Jr., known as Rowan Gaither.<ref name=interview/> Gaither admitted of the foundation's objectives:
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According to Dodd, he was called to meet Ford Foundation administrator Horace Rowan Gaither, Jr., known as Rowan Gaither.<ref name=interview/> Gaither admitted of the foundation's objectives:<ref name=northwestconnection/>
{{cquote|Mr. Dodd, we are here operating in response to similar directives the substance of which, that, we shall use our grant-making power, so to alter life in the United States, that it can be comfortably merged with the [[Soviet Union]].}}
{{cquote|Mr. Dodd, we are here operating in response to similar directives the substance of which, that, we shall use our grant-making power, so to alter life in the United States, that it can be comfortably merged with the [[Soviet Union]].}}