Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...translator on stand-by duty for such an event was rushed to the White House. Concerned, the President hurried to a mahogany conference table in the basement Situation Room of the White House. He was joined there by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Rostow. A map of Viet Nam normally hangs behind the table; in its place hung a huge map of the Middle East...
There were two parts to the argument of the article. First, the primary objective is to develop a way to reverse the Vietnam policy represented by President Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow, including, if necessary, the President's defeat in the 1968 election. If the goal were simply "How to Remove LBJ in '68," the title supplied the piece by the New Republic, then Mr. Lardner's jibe about the argument being "internally ridiculous" would be correct, for, if that is one's sole goal, the answer is obvious: vote Republican in 1968. However, things aren't that simple...
Romantic Revolutionaries. Though the Administration seemed more than ever to be digging in for a long, hard fight, something of the hope that stiffens Johnson against his critics was lucidly expressed by White House Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow. Speaking at the University of Leeds in England, Rostow said that the "aggressive, romantic revolutionaries" who long have disturbed world peace-Ho Chi Minn and Mao Tse-tung, to name two-must soon give way to leaders who will make a new era of tranquillity possible. "If we have the common will to hold together and get on with...
Still, the outside world's attention was wishfully galvanized by signs and suggestions that peace talks might be in the offing. In Washington, White House Aide Walt Rostow observed that "an extremely interesting and delicate phase" had been reached in diplomatic efforts to move the war to the conference table. At New Mexico State University, General Maxwell Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Saigon, declared that conditions for a negotiated peace had improved. The fact that U.S. bombers did not immediately head north when the truce ended at week's end served to heighten speculation...