Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just one of many voices, ranking no higher than primus inter pares. In deciding his policy, John Kennedy does indeed listen to Rusk; but he may just as likely turn to his squad of White House professors and kibitzers, principally to Arthur Schlesinger and McGeorge Bundy of Harvard, Walt Rostow of M.I.T. Time after time, Kennedy reaches out past Rusk to cull ideas from Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Washington Lawyer (and Truman's Secretary of State) Dean Acheson; Special Presidential Consultant Henry (The Necessity of Choice) Kissinger; Disarmament Adviser John McCloy; or Presidential...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow, presidential assistants assigned to foreign policy thinking: down a bit because they showed too little skepticism toward CIA and Pentagon assumptions; furthermore, their authority inevitably suffers some dilution from the entry of Bobby Kennedy and Ted Sorensen into the cold war field...
...about uprisings and defections, he approved a too-skimpy, all-Cuban invasion that was doomed to bloody defeat. Secretary of State Dean Rusk went along with the plan, and so did the top foreign policy thinkers on the White House staff: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy and Walt Whitman Rostow. Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles opposed the project, somewhat deviously, by leaking to the press stories of sharp conflict within the Administration. The most outspoken opposition came from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright: he was convinced that the invasion attempt would fail...
...problems of our society-they are woven in the whole fabric of our industry, economy and federal life." With each passing year the humanities come in for greater attention at M.I.T.; its humanities faculty numbers some 120. Its economics department is one of the best, and M.I.T. Economists Walt Rostow and Paul Samuelson are among President Kennedy's top economic advisers...
Speaking before a meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists on "New Faces in Foreign Policy," Cheever examined the qualifications of McGeorge Bundy, Walt W. Rostow Panl Nitze, and other key Presidential advisers. Cheever voiced fear that a plethora of special assistants might hamper the President's all-important relations with his Secretary of State, or interfere with the unified direction of his foreign policy...