Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midnight Draft. At the same time, the President began formulating his Sunday address. Working with him on the speech were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, White House Aides Walt Rostow Harry McPherson and George Christian. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stall, was consulted. Also at Johnson's side, surprisingly, was Robert S. McNamara...
...narrowing inner circle of advisers, and nobody outside that coterie knows what is on his mind, what questions he is asking or what he hopes to accomplish. According to one Cabinet member, the key men around him are newly installed Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a hawk from the first, has apparently lost much of his influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, who made the mistake...
While most U.S. papers have moved closer to the political center, Loeb has stayed resolutely on the far right. Warring against the twin evils of taxation and timidity in foreign affairs, he has substituted his own eagle-chicken classification for the customary hawk-dove. By his definition, even Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara qualify for the "chicken" category. "The harbor of Haiphong," he says repeatedly, "should be bombed...
...Panmunjon and the negotiations that never get started in Saigon, 1500 delegates from 132 countries are quietly gathering in New Delhi for the conference that "will be more important to the future of the globe than Vietnam or Korea or Cuba or China," according to Undersecretary of State Eugene Rostow...
...United States, fighting to improve its own balance of payments by cutting back on imports on foreign aid, many of these demands will come hard. But there are a few encouraging signs. Before he left, Rostow--the American representative in New Delhi--announced a major change in American policy. After ten years of firm opposition, the U.S. will be willing to accept a system of preference treaties at the conference...