Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sixth Fleet that morning south of Crete-a very meaningful thing. The fourth thing is something that you can dig up yourselves for details. Marquis Child has reported long ago on a meeting of the Security Council, or a subcommittee of the Security Council, under W. W. Rostow's chairmanship. And Marquis Child has written this, and then he has confirmed it in private conversation with me much later. They concluded that Papandreou-the Center Union would win the elections in '67. They concluded furthermore at that meeting that this was against the strategic interests of the United States...
Kissinger reportedly feared that he would be slighted by antiwar former colleagues if he attempted to return. His predecessor as national security advisor, Walt W. Rostow, was turned down by M. I. T. when he attempted to regain his post as professor of Economics there...
...prodding of the Center, Walt Rostow and Henry Rowen persuaded the American negotiator at Geneva, Llewelyn Thompson, to propose the "hot line" to the Russian delegate; the proposal was accepted ("Neither is known as being a dove," Schelling said of Rostow and Rowen, "but both were very strong for arms arrangements with the Russians. I would guess Rowen did more to keep nuclear weapons out of Western Europe than anyone you can name...
...series of seminars including Rostow, Bowie, and Carl Kaysen (deputy to Bundy in the Kennedy administration, now director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and often mentioned as a candidate for Harvard's presidency), which studied ways to "rationalize arms control within the nation's security policy (italics supplied...
...feel this especially strongly given that I too was special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. I won't dissociate myself with Johnson's Vietnam policy even though I wasn't on that particular area. It wasn't even my part of the world-it was Rostow's. But I knew what was happening, so I won't dissociate myself.) And second, the fact that we were thinking seriously about Congressional restraints. I had always thought of Congress as at best a nuisance, sometimes an adversary, often the enemy. But now my fear is that Nixon may believe...