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Unknown to the world outside, Warsaw Pact troops were pouring across Czechoslovakia's borders. In his White House basement office, Walt Rostow was routinely examining the backlog of paper that accumulates each evening on the desk of the President's special assistant for national security. The first hint of crisis came at 7:05 p.m., when Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told Rostow by telephone: "I have a message from Moscow which I am translating. I have been instructed to give it orally to the President...
...Russian-American intercourse, this ranks just below the hot line in urgency. Rostow arranged an 8 p.m. appointment with Lyndon Johnson...
Moscow's move caught U.S. policymakers by surprise, although Lyndon Johnson and Special Assistant Walt Rostow made no effort to conceal their glee. For 17 months, the Russians had rebuffed every U.S. overture, including Johnson's disarmament plea at the United Nations three weeks ago. Then, in an address to the Supreme Soviet last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Moscow was "ready for an exchange of opinion" on the missile issue. Said Gromyko: "The current revolutionary epoch is doing away with the traditional concepts of strength." Stripped of Marxist-Leninist bafflegab, Gromyko's speech presumably...
...Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow...
Tantrums & Tirades. The phone call from Rostow proved to Johnson that he had judged the situation correctly. Nine hours after North Viet Nam's proposal reached Washington, the President appeared before a previously scheduled news conference?the first full-dress, televised session he had held in four months?and announced: "I have sent a message informing Hanoi that the date of May 10 and the site of Paris are acceptable to the U.S." He added somberly: "I must, however, sound a cautionary note. This is only the very first step. There are many, many hazards and difficult days ahead...