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

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: I have no knowledge of that ·one way or the other. G: Now later in 1961 there was another famous mission to Vietnam, the Maxwell Taylor-Walt Rostow mission. Did CIA have any input into that? H: I think that CIA had an input into everything
Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war” in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;” debate over Diem; Diem’s

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: In that sam:: summer of 1967 you were on a commission with Walt Rostow and with Leonard r~arks, and domestic policies. R: to name two, to examine certain U.S. foreign Just how active a group was this? Well, again, this was one of those matters whereby

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Walt Rostow, who was then a Kennedy staff person, and General Taylor, [·Jax Taylor went out to Vietnam. There was that great picture of them on that tennis court which some historian is going to use in a satirical way sometime. came bick

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. If you went back to [WaltJ Rostow and asked for it, it might get you and me both in deep kemche [?J. That would answer your question. So what can you do about it? G: Okay. Well, maybe we can go back to this. (Interruption) We haven't talked about

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it usually be, incidentally? J: Ed Hamilton for awhile--he came more often than anyone else. He was really, I guess, under the Security Council, under Walt Rostow. over and he'd be there as an observer. He'd come And whenever there was a real

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1961, yes. He had quite an argument about what ought to be done out there, because he did not agree with the Taylor-Staley [Taylor-Rostow?] mission approach, which was pretty conventional: build up the conventional army. That was another thing

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the [Maxwell?] Taylor-[Walt?] Rostow visitation which descended on the embassy in--I guess it was the spring of that year? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

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