Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part of McGeorge Bundy's job at the White House...
...Cabinet, Johnson named hard-driving Robert E. Kintner, 56, who just three months ago left his $200,000-a-year job as president of the National Broadcasting Co. (after a well-muffled company dispute). Less surprisingly but no less provocatively, he named as a special presidential assistant Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, a Kennedy-picked M.I.T. economic history professor who served as a White House aide before but left in 1961 to become a State Department policymaker because he did not get along with McGeorge Bundy...
When a reporter asked if it could be said that Rostow would be Bundy's successor, the President replied: "It could be, but that would be inaccurate. It would not be true. Most of the men play any position here, we hope." He added that Bundy's job has been split among White House Aides Robert Komer, Jack Valenti and Bill Moyers, and that Rostow would pick up some other pieces of it-"principally, but not necessarily exclusively, in the field of foreign policy, as well as special coordination of Latin American development." Rostow should feel at home...
...pressures and problems of the world create technological challenges, there need be no concern about America's sticking it out. Nor is there any reason to think that Americans cannot face the psychological challenge of danger, disappointment and hostility. Says the State Department's Walt Rostow: "We can out-patience anybody if we want to." But in order to do so, the U.S. must see a goal to its patience, not simply a goal in a specific situation like Viet Nam but an overall purpose. In short, it will need answers not only to the pragmatic "how" questions...
...this came the argument that the true role of foreign aid was neither military nor technical assistance but the organized promotion of national development. Millikan and Rostow made an early statement of this viewpoint in a book of 1957, A Proposal -- Key to a More Ef- fective Foreign Policy; and Rostow gave the idea its historical rationale three years later in The Stages of Economic Development. The Charles River analysis made several contributions of great significance. First of all, it offered the aid program what it had long lacked -- specific criteria for assistance. The goal, the Charles River economists said...