Word: rostow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powers that had created My Lai gladly left Calley to symbolize their way of war. The Army which fights with nauseating gas, white phosphorus, napalm, fragmentation bombs, and dum-dum bullets tried and convicted Calley. Medina was acquitted, Koster was reprimanded, Henderson will get off: Johnson, Rostow, Bundy, and MacNamara are above suspicion. In the center is Rusty Calley...
Several members insisted that such condemnation had already been the fate of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia, and former National Security Affairs Adviser Walt Rostow, whose professorship at M.I.T. was lost after his White House years. Said one council member: "Let's face it, it was a spineless, disgusting spectacle on the part of the intelligentsia. Rusk and Rostow were brutally punished for what they believed to be right, precisely by the people who have sonorously argued for diverse views and the freedom to express them...
...said that Henry Kissinger was more brilliant than Walt Rostow or McGeorge Bundy. What we have learned from the publication of the papers is the futility of intellectual brilliance in government, its assistance to stupidity. Neither through systems analysis nor social or technological science can we manipulate a world of men. As George Ball's testimony indicates, what is necessary is more human understanding, which transcends intelligence-an understanding permeated with self-scrutiny and humility...
Other tart criticisms were offered by two of Johnson's White House intellectuals, the University of Texas' Walt Rostow and Brandeis' John Roche. Rostow said that the Pentagon researchers had exercised a "most egregious extraction out of context" of his "hundreds of memos on Southeast Asia." Newspapers, he contended, had further distorted the perspective. "If a student here at Texas were to turn in a term paper where the gap between data and conclusions was as wide as that between the Pentagon study and the newspaper stories, he would expect to be flunked." Roche scoffed at the study as "third...
...different is the Nixon Administration's decision-making process? There have been qualitative changes. Nixon is a more orderly, more disciplined and less instinctive thinker than Johnson. He would rather read than talk; he probably demands and gets better briefs. Henry Kissinger is a more brilliant thinker than Walt Rostow or McGeorge Bundy. Under Nixon, there have been efforts to elicit a more systematic range of views from federal agencies, but whether they get any closer to the top man is doubtful. There is no convincing indication that the psychology and life-or-death motivation of the enemy...