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...just after 1 a.m. when the phone shrilled at Lyndon Johnson's White House bedside. Drowsily the President lifted the receiver. An instant later, he was wide awake. At the other end of the line was National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow with the news that Hanoi was at last prepared to end the month-long dispute over a site for talks on the Viet Nam war. By way of the diplomatic "mail drop" that the U.S. and North Viet Nam have been using in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, Hanoi notified Washington that it would send representatives to Paris...
...willingness of Senator Kennedy '48, to accept support from Robert McNamara indicates, to put it mildly, that he does not understand the basis of opposition to American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam is not the result of the demonic malevolence of Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow (all, incidentally, selected by John F. Kennedy '40), but follows quite directly from the policies pursued by the first Kennedy Administration. There is no confidence that a new Kennedy Administration would not feature the return to office of many men, of whom McNamara is only one, whose views on foreign...
Midnight Draft. At the same time, the President began formulating his Sunday address. Working with him on the speech were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, White House Aides Walt Rostow Harry McPherson and George Christian. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stall, was consulted. Also at Johnson's side, surprisingly, was Robert S. McNamara...
...narrowing inner circle of advisers, and nobody outside that coterie knows what is on his mind, what questions he is asking or what he hopes to accomplish. According to one Cabinet member, the key men around him are newly installed Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a hawk from the first, has apparently lost much of his influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, who made the mistake...
While most U.S. papers have moved closer to the political center, Loeb has stayed resolutely on the far right. Warring against the twin evils of taxation and timidity in foreign affairs, he has substituted his own eagle-chicken classification for the customary hawk-dove. By his definition, even Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara qualify for the "chicken" category. "The harbor of Haiphong," he says repeatedly, "should be bombed...