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...Tuesdays, in the upstairs dining room of the White House and at meetings of the Cabinet, Clifford pressed his view relentlessly, singlemindedly-and often singlehanded. He was opposed by such experienced, committed experts as Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. He also had to face down the President's enigmatic silences. At stake, he believed, was the survival...
...National Security Council, the new Urban Affairs Council, and an informal economic group. Intellectuals who were pleased when Nixon named his assistants for these groups might have relaxed too quickly. Nixon has suggested that, instead of the active roles in decision-making that McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow have played, Kissinger and Moynihan will just be idea men for his Administration. Although no one can repress Moynihan or ignore Kissinger, Nixon's close advisers who will be on the NSC and UAC because of their Cabinet posts will be much more likely than the two academics to influence Nixon...
Most universities would jump at the chance of getting a top presidential aide on their faculty, especially when his academic credentials are as lustrous as those of Walt Whitman Rostow. But when Rostow sought to reclaim his post as a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he left eight years ago to join John Kennedy, he was turned down. The most obvious explanation, that Rostow was blackballed for his hard line on Viet Nam, caused the New York Times's James Reston to write last week: "Is a man to be punished for beliefs sincerely...
M.I.T. claims that Rostow's hawkish advice to Lyndon Johnson had nothing to do with the rejection. In 1964, after a four-year leave of absence, Rostow told the university he would stay in government, thereby offering his resignation. Now M.I.T.'s economics department does not want him back for three rea sons. First, Rostow has been away too long and his courses are being taught differently. Second, Rostow's own interests have changed from economics to world politics. Lastly, there is a deep-running hostility to Rostow as a scholar. Indeed, when Rostow published his celebrated...
...where to now? Last week the University of Texas announced that Rostow and his wife, a professor of government, will be on its faculty as of February. Also slated to join them is another new prof: Lyndon B. Johnson...