Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several former government officials also signed the statement. Among them were Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, former Ambassador to the United Nations; Yale Professor Eugene V. Rostow, Undersecretary of State under President Johnson; and William P. Bundy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs...
Doxiadis attempted to give shape to the discussions, and his daily summing up was accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will...
...example of this last trend, McCarthy cited former Presidential advisor Wat Rostow, who wrote his work on the stages of economic growth, and then "as advisor he tried to prove his book was right." McCarthy regarded Henry Kissinger--former professor of Government, now a Nixon aide--as more pragmatic than Rostow, but commented "This may, in the long run, be more damaging...
...betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith were dispatched as ambassadors to Japan and India. "Pragmatic" intellectuals like Economist Walt Rostow and the Bundy brothers, McGeorge and William, helped to formulate the war's policies and rationale. As they did so, the schism in the intellectual community widened...
...associations, professions and life styles. Though German Jewish, Walter Lippmann is still a Waspirant. His clubs (Metropolitan, Cosmos, River) and his influence on opinion give him undeniable Wasp power. Wall Street Dynasts John Schiff and John Loeb may qualify, if they want, as honorary Wasps. So may Walt Whitman Rostow, who has been a top aide of Lyndon Johnson and beats most Wasps at tennis...