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...overtones of Johnson's weary-preacher style. Written in close consultation with National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow, the address explained that the U.S. was in Viet Nam not only because "we cherish freedom and self-determination for all people," but also to look after "our own security." Said Johnson: "I am convinced that by seeing this struggle through now, in Viet Nam, we are reducing the chances of a larger war-perhaps a nuclear...
...himself, to judge from Reston's use of the phrase "highest officials here' and the surefooted way he says, "at this point, it is understood, President Johnson took another tack . . ." Other candidates for Reston's sources in this piece are Rusk; Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach; Walt W. Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs, and McNamara. As a general thing only guidance from men of this rank within the government would encourage Reston or any other reporter to write with such confidence about so sensitive a matter, although more easily than most reporters Reston...
...brewing, but later complained that Washington ignored his warnings and branded him an alarmist. Top-level responsibility for the Middle East was bucked from official to official. Nicholas Katzenbach looked into Washington's policy when he became Under Secretary last September, quickly passed the problem to Newcomer Eugene Rostow, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, who thereupon turned it over to a newer comer, his deputy, Foy Kohler...
...Arab-Israeli negotiations and resisting Russia's attempts to brand Israel the aggressor and strip away all of its gains, U.S. policymakers are looking toward the future-far into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable and secure existence...
...Walt W. Rostow, LL.D., Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs...