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...President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
...translator on stand-by duty for such an event was rushed to the White House. Concerned, the President hurried to a mahogany conference table in the basement Situation Room of the White House. He was joined there by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Rostow. A map of Viet Nam normally hangs behind the table; in its place hung a huge map of the Middle East...
...importance Press Secretary George Christian has achieved. Day after day, at meetings that were both formal and informal, at breakfasts and lunches, George Christian was a fifth and full-time addition to the executive foursome that usually manages U.S. foreign affairs: Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Walt Rostow, the President's Special Assistant for national security affairs...
...joined the staff of Senator Price Daniel, was Daniel's press secretary from 1957 to 1962, when Daniel was Governor. He did the same until 1966 for Governor John Connally, then traveled that old Texas trail to the White House to become a presidential assistant (working with Rostow on foreign affairs) and an understudy to Bill Moyers. When Moyers became publisher of Long Island's Newsday, Christian moved up with assurance...
There were two parts to the argument of the article. First, the primary objective is to develop a way to reverse the Vietnam policy represented by President Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow, including, if necessary, the President's defeat in the 1968 election. If the goal were simply "How to Remove LBJ in '68," the title supplied the piece by the New Republic, then Mr. Lardner's jibe about the argument being "internally ridiculous" would be correct, for, if that is one's sole goal, the answer is obvious: vote Republican in 1968. However, things aren't that simple...