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...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British are somewhat distressed that their friends, nearly all members of the Eastern intellectual establishment, have been replaced by men of a different background.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...
Several former government officials also signed the statement. Among them were Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, former Ambassador to the United Nations; Yale Professor Eugene V. Rostow, Undersecretary of State under President Johnson; and William P. Bundy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs...
Doxiadis attempted to give shape to the discussions, and his daily summing up was accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will...
...example of this last trend, McCarthy cited former Presidential advisor Wat Rostow, who wrote his work on the stages of economic growth, and then "as advisor he tried to prove his book was right." McCarthy regarded Henry Kissinger--former professor of Government, now a Nixon aide--as more pragmatic than Rostow, but commented "This may, in the long run, be more damaging...