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Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: WALT W. ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Professor Rostow's office, LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 R: --study the problem of guerrilla warfare. I get into that in The Diffusion of Power. I forget what page
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between China and Russia and how that affected relations with Southeast Asia and the U.S.; LBJ's instructions to Rostow on how to do his job; the role of national security advisor under JFK and LBJ; Rostow's staff; the size of the White House staff
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Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Walt W. Rostow

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. My boss was Walt Rostow, period. G: Do you know anything about how you were selected? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
How Ginsburgh joined the Policy Planning Council at the State Department and his duties under the Policy Planning; Ginsburgh’s work on the Vietnam negotiating group; how Policy Plannine made their recommendations; Walt Rostow; bombing campaigns

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: WALT ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Rostow's office, Federal Building, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 R: I think it might be useful if I were briefly to start with the first impressions-- M: Let me move this microphone so
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Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Walt W. Rostow

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

members, although they were paid by the NSC and their line to the President was usually through McGeorge Bundy. This didn't happen all at once. In the early days there was some confusion. Walt Rostow, a deputy special assistant, had direct access
of special assistant; Walt Rostow; personal staff and foreign policy.

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and the President and memoranda that go from the Secretary to the President. The great bulk of material that moves to the White House goes over my name to the special assistant for National Security Affairs, and it's known to the President as the Read-Rostow channel
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; liberal clique; Rule 22; LBJ’s knowledge of the world; opinion regarding John Leacacos: Fires in the In-Basket, 1968; operational differences between Bundy and Rostow; White House National Security

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. But in that case, there were these six or seven people at the party. The repeated suggestion was made to us that Walt Rostow might be available for this deanship. The committee considered that very carefully. M: This is coming down [from the top]? L: Yes, I don
or public experience, show evidence of good administration skills, and gain LBJ’s acceptance; how names were submitted to the White House; how Huitt was treated as a candidate; the dean’s salary; why Rusk and Walt Rostow were not chosen; working with Joe

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 M: Where did you see these drafts? C: I saw these drafts at the State Department. And my own feeling is that what happened was that perhaps Rostow, with Rusk's okay and McNamara's okay, or perhaps one

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

years before going to the White House. M: I guess that's really what I was driving toward. In none of that time did you have any contact with Senator Johnson or with the Johnson staff in any close way? F: No, I did not. Walt Rostow. M: Walt Rostow

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saunders -- I -- 7 those meetings. There was a kind of agenda, at least in the form of memos from Walt Rostow to the President, and oftentimes as a staff, we were very conscious of getting things ready for the Tuesday lunch
for Tuesday lunches; LBJ’s and Nixon’s preferred use of the NSC; Eugene Rostow and systematic decision-making at the State Department; the oil crisis in the Middle East; McGeorge Bundy’s leadership role; NSC’s involvement in U.S. aid to India to prevent famine

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because in the inaugural message that same theme was to be found. So mostly through others, through Rostow and Bingham--I suppose chiefly Rostow--I did keep up a peripheral kind of relationship with Senator Kennedy and was persuaded that this was a very
for a post-war development plan for South Vietnam; Lilienthal's skepticism on Vietnam quelled; effect of pacification programs; advising JFK on foreign aid; William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; James Rowe; HHH; RFK; Adlai Stevenson; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nguyen Cao

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh THOMSON -- I -- 3 I stayed on his staff and on loan from State till he, in due course, pulled out and I inherited Mr. Rostow. But just about the time, coincidentally, of Mac Bundy's decision

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

might find that he did. Why did Mr. Johnson decide to appoint you when Francis Bator-K: I think you may also find that before Kaysen, Rostow had it. M: You went back that far? K: 1961. M: I thought they used a lower ranking title. K: Negative

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

lay it on the line? T: Yes. Usually the times I talked to him after I returned from [these trips], Walt Rostow sat in on the meetings. F: Did you get a feeling that Johnson was unduly influenced by Rostow? T: I don't think so. I don't think he

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the ultimate responsibility for it, and I do think that men like Walt Rostow, and Rusk, and several others along with the President have to share the responsibility for having made the decision; whether a different group of men w.ould have made a very
work there; Walt Rostow; Dan Rusk; making decisions with out of date information/opinions; expressing disagreement with the President’s choices; U.S. relationship with China; Fullbright hearings; LBJ’s distrust of intellectual Easterners; LBJ’s accent

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

House, now the ,Lwalt wJ Rostow operation? There was some trouble with this, I think, allegedly at least, during the Kennedy Administration. Has that continued? K: I think it has. resolve. I think it's a very difficult problem to really I think
; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was on the national security staff of Mr. Rostow. Prior to that you had been deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs from 1965 until 1966. Prior to that you had been special assistant to Mr. [Averell] Harriman. been on the Policy Planning Council

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever doubt the accuracy of the information he was receiving from his official sources, say Walt Rostow or. . .? Z: Oh, yes. G: Did he really? Z: Yes, I think he'd raise the question. He'd do it in two ways. Half the time when he was talking
1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: When Walt Rostow went over to the White House in March of 1966 I became acting chairman of the Policy Planning Council and then I was assigned to the job on a permanent basis in June of 66 . M: I believe you have been with the Policy Council in some
Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

subjects such as Vietnam. These notes were made -- to the extent that they were made -- by a member of the President's staff, such as Walt Rostow, Tom Johnson, or someone else.Those notes were not circulated to the other participants for checking before

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: EUGENE V. ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. The assistant secretary of Treasury and his deputy assistant for foreign matters was [were] there. The State Department was represented by someone from Undersecretary [Eugene V.] Rostow's office. The Bureau of the Budget was represented, I think, by the Deputy

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Atomic Energy Commission, and I got a message from Walt Rostow saying that the President thought that since this thing was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

his reaction to that? J: No, I really can't. I was looking at some of those questions. Most of the stuff surrounding Vietnam I don't recall. Things were moving rather fast then. I'd leave that one to [Walt] Rostow and some of those. G: Then it's

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, at any rate. F: Was there any essential difference between working with Bundy and working with Rostow? K: I didn't work with Rostow as intimately, of course, as I did with Bundy simply because I was Bundy's interim successor as Special Assistant
; differences between Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy; Komer taking charge of Vietnam issues as Special Assistant to the President; the quasi-military character of “the other war” in Vietnam vs. pacification; unifying the management of the war; using the term

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the secretary He and the Secretary of State and Walt Rostow, who was special assistant to the President for defense and international matters, met regularly at luncheon once a \'Jeek, where they had lengthy discussions of this kind of problem. George Christian

Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to a waiting room there outside the President's study, where I talked for a little while with vlalt Rostow. [He] gave me somewhat further background on what was being done with regard to the Pueblo and tried to reassure me that everything that was possible

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Yes. Well, I'm just saying that that's how I got in and that was the outcome. G: Yes. Was Walt Rostow the head of the Policy Planning Council then? J: He was not. G: And Rostow took over, I guess, shortly thereafter? J: And Walt replaced

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and took part in, I believed, most of the discussions after that. But I was not in the critical meetings with Wheeler, Rusk, Clifford, Rostow, and the President at which the level of troop reinforcement was discussed, and in which the figure of two hundred

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

now, that sort of thing, what I was interested in and what I wasn't interested in. First, I guess \~alt Rostow stopped by, and he was, of course at the time, and still is very well known. Moyers introduced him to me. He said, oh, gee, he had just

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

force, with Walt Rostow and Gene Rostow and Harriman and Rusk and what have you, the ten or twelve that were involved. At any rate I had another meeting that next morning with Rusk and McNamara, and except for maybe one or two editorial changes
Walter Jenkins , William Bundy, Robert McNamara, Katzenbach, Walt Rostow, Gene Rostow. Washington meetings about bombing Hanoi in December 1966, cessation of bombing in Hanoi, Poland backing out of discussions, Gronouski’s interpretation of Polish

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

exposure, although I was probably involved in a background sort of a way with his Southeast Asia trip. I expect Walt Rostow was closer to that, because Walt had the Far Eastern account. M: That was before he went back to the State Department? B: Before
LBJ's knowledge of, and experience with, foreign affairs; LBJ's decision-making process; LBJ's vice presidential trip to Berlin; Walt Rostow and Bundy supporting LBJ as vice president; how Bundy was able to meet influential people through LBJ; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and the President didn't lose respect for him at all. Another was Walt Rostow, you know. No, no, I don't think the President felt that they had diddled him, nor did I. He had given them a clear green light. I think that simply was a case where in giving than

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and I remember General [Maxwell] Taylor telling him so in rather brutal terms. G: Do you recall the occasion for that? N: Yes, it was at the time of the Taylor-Rostow mission. -~ 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

vaguely that we had some of these high-level meetings with [Walt] Rostow and [Dean] Rusk, and CIA and Defense, et cetera. I don't think that that group ever--I don't think it lasted long, and I don't think it did very much. I think it pretty much fell

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But to my knowledge, no one called [Walt] Rostow or any of the political people. G: Was there a reason for that? LG: I just have no idea. I kept on asking, because I wanted the doors open, I wanted to get the damn thing done. G: Some people have said

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and this time I was flown on a helicopter to Philadelphia, waited there until a helicopter with Dean Rusk and Walt Rostow and some of the others came in, and I got on that one, and we landed at Glassboro, in the ball park. And this time Okolovsky was with me. I

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