Dean Rusk describes the work of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller grants, focusing on the conflict between culture and tradition with development strategies. He cites as examples public health efforts in India, Mexico, and Hungary and agricultural assistance in the Soviet Union and Mexico. Rusk also addresses the problem of anti-semitism in Scarsdale, N.Y., the headquarters of the foundation. He also describes the investigation of the Cox Committee into the foundation's giving to groups with communist ties or sympathies. He also briefly discusses the work of the Warren Commission and the John F. Kennedy assassination.

For more information, see the Dean Rusk Oral History Collection finding aid: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL214DROH/findingaid