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  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH EUGENE ROSTOW ABOUT APPOINTMENT TO STATE DEPT POSITION; APPOINTMENT OF NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; KATZENBACH'S ABILITIES TO WORK WITH CONGRESS; LBJ CAUTIONS ROSTOW ABOUT PRESS LEAKS; JAMES MOYERS
  • Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003
  • Telephone conversation # 10792, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 9/17/1966, 5:39PM
  • WALT ROSTOW
  • was very anxious to project himself in the government. I didn't really get it This was his great opportunity. wanted to get into foreign policy. I think he I think he encouraged the appoint- ment of l ~ a 1 t Rostow as NcGeorge Bundy's successor
  • I ask ed C lay M cPherson, whose husband H arry had been la b o r in g on th e sp e e c h , George C h r i s t i a n ' s w if e , Jo Anne, and d e a r E ls p e th Rostow, whose husband h a s worked h a rd e r and endured more o f th e o r d e a ls co
  • , Lady Bird & guests drive the LBJ Ranch & Scharnhorst; LBJ, Luci & guests attend Catholic mass; Thanksgiving dinner for 20 guests; Lady Bird mentions reasons to be thankful; Walt Rostow plays hymns on piano; Johnsons interview & hire couple for ranch
  • --I've forgotten what it was--but it was at the time when Khe Sahn was being be sieged and I had to deal with Walt Rostow to determine how much we were going to hold on, to get--Khe Sahn in words, In other words, were we going to make a permanent