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Romantic Revolutionaries. Though the Administration seemed more than ever to be digging in for a long, hard fight, something of the hope that stiffens Johnson against his critics was lucidly expressed by White House Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow. Speaking at the University of Leeds in England, Rostow said that the "aggressive, romantic revolutionaries" who long have disturbed world peace-Ho Chi Minn and Mao Tse-tung, to name two-must soon give way to leaders who will make a new era of tranquillity possible. "If we have the common will to hold together and get on with...
Still, the outside world's attention was wishfully galvanized by signs and suggestions that peace talks might be in the offing. In Washington, White House Aide Walt Rostow observed that "an extremely interesting and delicate phase" had been reached in diplomatic efforts to move the war to the conference table. At New Mexico State University, General Maxwell Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Saigon, declared that conditions for a negotiated peace had improved. The fact that U.S. bombers did not immediately head north when the truce ended at week's end served to heighten speculation...
Recent comments by Presidential Aide Walt W. Rostow indicate that the United States and North Vietnam are secretly and informally exploring the possibilities of a negotiated settlement in South Vietnam. If the current peace feelers are to be any more successful than previous probes, the United State must make it clear that it will end the bombing of the North as a prelude to formal negotiations...
Stream of Visitors. At midweek, Defense-Secretary Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Presidential Assistant Walt Rostow arrived to discuss world issues-from Viet Nam to NATO. The stream of visitors continued daily. The last of the Gemini astronauts, James Lovell Jr. and Edwin Aldrin, came to be decorated by the President, along with a galaxy of NASA and space industry officials. On Thanksgiving, Pat and Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird, Lyndon's Aunt Jessie Hatcher and his cousin, Oriole Bailey, along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie...
...military advantage today, and its SABRE guidance system, which controls a missile all the way to target, may make ballistic missiles obsolete tomorrow. Its SAGE and DEW line systems aid in defense against air attack. M.I.T. has contributed its Chairman James Killian, Economists Paul Samuelson and Walt Rostow and Provost Jerome Wiesner to high posts in recent federal administrations. At least 20% of M.I.T.'s graduates become company presidents or vice presidents...