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Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's foreign policy expert, is fully schooled in the tradition of predecessors like McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Kissinger. Crisis was a way of life. Their families were stangers. They set up cots next to their desks so that they could be within steps of the hot-line messages that dropped into the Situation Room. Not only did Brzezinski defy tradition by going off to Maine's Mount Desert Island for a week, but when his boss was at Camp David, he played tennis on the White House court in the middle...
...didn't want to punish a man for public service in Washington," the source said. "We didn't want a Rostow in our faculty. We had strong feelings that shouldn't happen here. Anyway he is at the top of his field in international relations...
Walter W. Rostow left MIT in the 1960s to work for former President Johnson as chairman of the Policy Planning Council during the Vietnam war and was not invited back to MIT in part because of his involvement with...
...them work closely with the government. The university, being tied so closely by money, direction and participation, not surprisingly reflects the basic power relationships of the larger society. As the university is presently constituted, we must admit that in some instance Kissinger would fit quite nicely--as would Rusk, Rostow, and others. But we do not acquiesce to the present state of the university or society. In our position as students, it is imperative that we struggle to make the university a truly free and open place, and not a factory for grinding out submissive policy advisors, responsive only...
...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...