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Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Vietnamese army was hav ing a tough time. L: Very. G: Did we consider at least contingency plans at that time for sending in U.S. troops? L: No, not in that particular period, not in 1961. G: Now, I know that General Taylor and Mr. [Walt] Rostow went

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the President was at Camp David very, very few times. F: Did you ever go? L: No, I never did go, and I have a feeling that most of the staff never went either. I do recall Rostow was out there once with the President. This might have been at the time

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Absolutely. B: He must have Did he ever get angry at the other extreme? Did he been getting an awful lot of hawkish advice. sometimes get angry at them too? M: I don't know of any really hawkish advice.I heard Walt [Rostow] one time talk about some

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the mission headed by General /Maxwell D ./ Taylor and Walt Rostow went to Vietnam, I was very active on Secretary McNamara's behalf in the policy review that followed the return of that mission . And that policy review included a number of meetings over

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. C: Exactly. They weren't very consequential. principle of the thing. But it was a kind of a There was a feeling on the part of some people-- M: Now, was this primarily Rusk and Rostow? C: Rusk and Rostow, primarily; there may have been

Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

directly but sometimes through Mr . Rostow, as to the progress we were making in the negotiations . In June of 1967 in this office, we initialed a proposed treaty between the United States and Panama . The treaty was really in three parts, all of which

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to reach a goal of $1,000,000, 000. Joe Fowler left it pretty well up to me, I guess. quick in saying mandatory. Bob McNamara was very Nick Katzenbach- Gene Rostow, I guess, was hesitant, but went · to mandatory pretty quickly. And I guess I

Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that time was assistant secretary, asked me to take the White House Latin American adviser job, which Robert B. Sayre had occupied for about nine months previous to that. F: Had you known Walt Rostow or the President at all before this time? B: I had

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Walt Rostow and four or five other representatives of the government to examine the situation and make recommendations--which turned out to be a rather historic mission because

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be devalued, and some of the foreign affairs specialists in the White House were simply tied down. There was a time when we thought Rostow was becoming interested i.n Cyprus; but then his time \t-/as taken up with the pound crisis. So it never escalated out

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, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "Who the hell gave us Johnson? us Dean Rusk? Who gave us McNamara? Rostow brothers?" ~'Jho gave Who gave us the Bundys and the You know, Kennedy did or the Establishment did. and they stayed on under Johnson and there they 1tJere. I suppose

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?] Rostow was one of them, I believe. Who else am I trying to think of, was another one? And like George Christian, for example, would review a lot of things that not everybody in the White House saw. I just don't remember who--and I didn't always see

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and this is one shop in the White House, and you would call it the legislative program, and really the domestic program, of the administration. They don't deal much with foreign policy or defense as such. That's more in Walt Rostow's ball park. Now, you can come

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the first of August with O'Brien, Ginsburg, Wirtz, Reynolds, Ackley, Katzenbach, Douglas, [Walt?] Rostow, Clifford, and [Bill] Moyers. In and out. I guess O'Brien's reporting on where the legislation stands, and he says that Yarborough will support

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- LX -- 15 Then, for some reason on the eighth of April, we got into a discussion of--let me just get my own calendar for April 8. Christ, he's got [Walt] Rostow. Well, I was in his office for the postal reorganization thing for thirteen minutes

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the way the place worked in general, and I started sitting in on Walt Rostow's National Security Council staff meetings three times a week, just a listener and an observer. And I began to get a feel for what he was doing. has a large staff

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

deliberately distorted the figures in order to make it look good and also to deceive the President, that was the biggest canard of all, because people like Walt Rostow and Ambassador Bill [William] Leonhart LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--and Shirley Clurman and Walt Rostow and I. While we were having our cocKtails, Mrs. Johnson came up to me and said, "Nash, do you think after dinner?" She knew and I ~.-ou kne~·; had a bowling alley on their esta-:e. 2) might rig up a little bowling c

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-centered, touchy about his assimilated rank of ambassador and its four-star prerogatives, and devoted only to his own advancement and his own mission. II Now, that shows you. I do, though, say, as Mr. [Walt] Rostow did in his book, The Diffusion

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

this far and you suddenly find, "1:-lell, 've can't do that because Undersecretary Rostow made this statement to the OECD three weeks ago." You find mechanics of success in this government don't necessarily include allowing all of your colleagues to get

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

. it would take him. I got LBJ to It took Vann just about an hour Having heard it many times, I knew [what] The President promised him that time. Well, unfor- tunately, Komer was over there and Walt Rostow was in the White House, and they headed us off

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, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

have the confidence of the President more so than others would have. H: Yes, that's true. ing of. I think it depended on the field that you're speak- Walt Rostow, for instance, in his area; Califano, in his area. Califano would fall in and out

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, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and then transmitted that interest down to us so that we could better formulate the program and handle the legislative priorities. M: Was there a conscious attempt to duplicate on the domestic side a sort of Rostow operation such as has occurred in the national

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Goldberg, there were the Rostow brothers for another, there was Ed Weisl, any number of people. And it seems to me that an Arab would say that the President was listening to the Zionists among the advisers. Was there any evidence of this at the UN? S

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to turn to his advisers, perhaps people like the Bundys and the Rostows more than the Secretary of State, or at least as much as the Secretary of State, for advice and counsel. And here again, I don't think there's any real doubt that President Johnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appointments with a very long, solemn, "Joe, I know the President values your opinion. This grave decision is going to be made about--." case it was about [Walt W.] Rostow and [Robert] Kintner. think that these are wise appointments? very much." In one

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me was the fact that I supported him on his most difficult, and as it turned out, fatal issue. So when I would go to Viet Nam, when I'd come back, he'd call me for a little debriefing. I'd sit with him and with Walt Rostow and just give them my

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

not guilty. Once a week I reported to the Oval Office at 6 PM to relieve LBJ's secretaries. A number of the President's Assistants like Walt Rostow brought in confidential material for LBJ to go over at night. It was known as night reading

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he continued to be during Mr. Johnson's But that is understandable. Some of the Kennedy people stayed on, as you know: Walt Rostow, -lr( Larry O'Brien in various functions, John Gronouski, et cetera, et cetera. Those who stayed on were

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)