Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Walt Rostow's letter [April 21] is a laugh. It is interesting that he, one of the main architects of our Viet Nam policy under President Johnson, admits that "substantial errors have been made." He and other hawks in high places were the promoters of the policy that got us more and more deeply involved in this tragic situation...
...Rostow was special assistant for national security affairs to President Johnson during the peak years of U.S. involvement in Viet...
...Walt W. Rostow...
...difficult not to move an audience with footage of a farmer pointing out the rubble which had been his house and the graves which had been his family. And if there had been any pretense of objectivity in the film, it would have been clear that the way Wait Rostow's segments are edited are pretty clearly worthy of the lawsuit he's bringing against the filmmakers. But the bulk of the film is so powerful as to make one feel that Rostow has no right to walk the streets, let alone sue anybody...
...people controlled by the Communists. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dispatched Major General John R.D. Cleland on a new fact-finding mission to the war area. Cleland roared off through the skies, and there were memories of General Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow swooping down on Saigon for Kennedy. The exhilaration of new crisis was evident all through BAWS...