[900]. See, for example, the analysis of Kennedy’s third world policies, as viewed in conflict with those of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and his allies, in Colby and Dennett, Thy Will Be Done, pp. 391-92, 396-417, 665-66. Six days before JFK’s assassination, Rockefeller gave a speech featured in the New York Times in which he expressed “deep concern” that President Kennedy “was undermining the nation’s security and world peace.” Donald Janson, “Rockefeller Says Kennedy’s Policy Imperils Peace,” New York Times (November 17, 1963), p. 1. Rockefeller’s first example of Kennedy’s undermining security was the president’s support of Sukarno in Indonesia’s conflict with its former colonial master, the Netherlands: “In New Guinea we sacrificed an old and valued ally, the Netherlands, to Indonesian aggression.” “Excerpts from Rockefeller’s Statement Attacking President on Foreign Policy,” Thy Will Be Done, p. 43. Rockefeller attacked Kennedy’s support of neutralist policies in third world countries as a virtual surrender to Communism: “In Laos the Administration sacrificed a pro-Western government to one of those illusory coalitions which almost invariably have been a prelude to Communist takeover . . . “Blinded by the illusion that a change of tone indicates a change of policy, the Administration has vacillated in the face of alternating Soviet aggressiveness and Soviet peace offensives. The result is that the West is bewildered and in many allied countries leftist tendencies with neutralist overtones are gaining ground.” Ibid.--JFK and the Unspeakable, footnote 900 of Chapter 6
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