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...visiting professorship at the University of Chicago law school. Of the 65 previous Eastman fellows, 13 were Nobel Prize winners. Schauer will be the third lawyer to hold the post, along with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former HLS professor Felix Frankfurter in 1933-34, and Eugene Rostow, the former dean of Yale Law School, in 1970-72. The Eastman professorship was formed in 1929 in honor of George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and I went to Austin to meet with the President and Walt Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. Our purpose was to review with the President the defense budget for the fiscal year 1968, which was to be presented to the Congress in February 1967. Among the items to be considered was the recommendation of the Chiefs that the budget request include funds for production of an antiballistic-missile system. I explained to the President that the Chiefs had recommended the action, but that...
...President called on each of the five Chiefs in turn, and each one of them urged approval of the ABM program. Walt Rostow sided with the Chiefs. This was an extraordinarily difficult moment for President Johnson. I never hesitated to disagree with a unanimous recommendation of the Joint Chiefs if I felt it was the wrong decision. In this case, however, Congress had already passed a law authorizing production of the ABM system. To continue to refuse to proceed in the direction that had been supported by the Congress, and to do so in the face of a unanimous recommendation...
DIED. WALT ROSTOW, 86, easygoing yet hawkish adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson whose unfailing optimism about U.S. involvement in Vietnam helped propel the war; in Austin, Texas. The son of a Socialist, he coined Kennedy's campaign slogan, Let's Get This Country Moving Again. The onetime M.I.T. economics professor saw the war primarily as a means of ensuring modernization and development in Southeast Asia. He never publicly regretted his position, saying in 1986, "I'm not obsessed with Vietnam, and I never was. I don't spend much time worrying about that period...
DIED. EUGENE ROSTOW, 89, former dean of Yale Law School, who served under four Presidents, including Ronald Reagan; in Alexandria, Va. As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, he was part of a group of influential Democrats deeply affected by World War II who strongly defended U.S. involvement in Vietnam...