Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more Defense Department funds-a demand that conflicts directly with Carter's position that the department's budget can be prudently cut without impairing the nation's defense capability. The committee includes a galaxy of former Washington stars. It was organized mainly by Eugene V. Rostow, who was one of the Under Secretaries of State in the Johnson Administration. Among its 119 members are former CIA Director William Colby, former Treasury Secretaries John Connally and C. Douglas Dillon. retired Generals Lyman Lemnitzer, Maxwell Taylor and Matthew Ridgway. Calling détente "illusory" and warning that U.S. defense...
Inconsistencies. A photographer for Gamma Photo Agency is on the trail for two weeks; he speaks with the kind of cynicism bred in the anti-war movement and demonstrations against war-engineer Walt Rostow, where Rostow says something like, "I've never seen the effects of napalm but it can't be all that bad," and he (photographer, then student) turns down house lights and starts up a film showing bombs falling on North Vietnam, while Rostow (unaware of screen behind) continues to defend the war. That cynicism creeps back when the Gamma man talks about Reagan who, according...
...think he was pulling my leg--that someone called him from Camp Pendleton wondering whether we would take a few hundred refugees. Something about their wanting to see where it all began. Uncle Sam would build the Quonset huts (I can just see it--Bundy House, Rostow House) if we would provide some kind of training. I told Dan to refer the guy to Bob Wood. But you can see why we need to move fast...
...taken over by the business and military establishments...[and as] devoted to 'the present and future domination of the people of the world.' Obviously, they live in a world of fantasy." He got the political part of the radicals' critique right, on the whole, though by 1975, with Walt Rostow trapped on celluloid repeating his war apologies before audiences watching "Hearts and Minds" while hundreds waited for helicopters on the roof of our embassy in Saigon, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the "world of fantasy" won't soon be Pusey...
...assassination plans, Church's committee has persuaded the Ford Administration to let it examine top-level White House and National Security Council files. After studying the data, Church plans to call as witnesses such key figures of the Kennedy Administration as McGeorge Bundy, Walter Rostow and Robert McNamara. In addition, both Church's committee and the recently reorganized House Select Committee on Intelligence are interested in learning what control Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may have exercised over the CIA'S more recent clandestine operations abroad. "Before this thing is over," says one congressional source, "Kissinger...