Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House and the News Media." Also signed up from the Nixon Administration were White House Aides John Ehrlichman and Charles Clapp. About two-thirds of the 150 invited guests turned out. Among the absentees were Ehrlichman and two of Lyndon Johnson's top White House assistants, Walt Rostow and Bill Moyers. Seemingly unimpressed by the proceedings, some participants left before the three-day event was over...
...wonder the British are somewhat distressed that their friends, nearly all members of the Eastern intellectual establishment, have been replaced by men of a different background. "For years, it's been good old Dean [Rusk], or Walt [Rostow] or George [Ball]," says one diplomat in London. "Now there's suddenly Heinrich Kissinger in the White House basement sweating over the Baden-Württemberg election, or names like Ehrlichman and Ziegler." One British writer saw Nixon's election as "the end of the affair...
...real horror was to be sleeping soundly about three-thirty or four or five o'clock in the morning and have the telephone ring and the operator say, 'Sorry to wake you, Mr. President,' and there's just a second until she could get Mr. Rostow in the Situation Room, or Mr. Bundy . . . Had we hit a Russian ship? Had an accident occurred? We have another Pueblo? Someone made a mistake-were we at war?" Few men, listening, could be so sure of themselves, or so hungry for power, that they would not feel a sickening...