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  • 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
  • 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
  • these little sessions last? V: An hour, an hour and a half. Then the day would go forward. Now Mac Bundy, and Rostow following him, was totally in charge of all the foreign policy work. Moyers and myself, for example, attended all the National Security
  • speeches; election day; staff schedules and duties; the appointments secretary’s power; night reading; Walt Rostow; diplomatic luncheons; speechwriting for LBJ.
  • connected with it was my deputy, Bob Schaetzel. Bob then became ambassador to the European communities. Henry Owen was also associated with it and later on when Walt Rostow left he became chairman of the Policy Planning Council. I don't know how close
  • in, Bundy and Rostow called me up and asked me to come on over and be the first member of the so-called Bundy State Department. I was the first man recruited for the national security group at the White House, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • with his foreign minister and his deputy prime minister, and a member of his staff who is roughly the equivalent of Walt Rostow, and with others. I had seen most of the senior people in the government. He knew by that time that contrary to the press
  • 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