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- tl1e students what the
world looked like as teen-agers inside the
White House. l had to do the rest, but at
the end of the course. Protes. ors Elspeth
Rostow (LBJ School) and Bruce Bu
chanan (Government) met with the class
to give their assessments
- .
Rostows Named Austinites of the Year
Walt and Elspeth Rostow were
recently honored by the Greater
Austin Chamber of Commerce as
the 1993 Austinites of the Year for
their "vision and invaluable contri
butions to the local community."
Walt Rostow, who
- ,
established by the LBJ Foundation in 1975, which is held by
Sidney Weintraub, and the Sid Richardson Chair, endowed
by the Richardson Foundation in 1979 which is occupied by
Wilbur Cohen.
4
Elspeth Rostow Announces Resignation
Elspeth Rost ow, Dean
- , McGeorge Bundy and Walt
W. Rostow. Their Memos to the
President offer a more comprehen
sive view of their written advice to
Johnson. McGeorge Bundy's file is
far from complete but still very
enlightening. While not all-inclusive,
Walt Rostow's file
- Whitman Rostow
Walt Whitman Rostow served in
several positions in government, but he
is perhaps most widely remembered as
LBJ's ational Security Advisor from
I 966-1969. A Rhodes eholar, Dr. Ros
tow served as an intellig nee officer in
World War ll. He
- Rostow said was poten
tially "the most timely and significant" gathering
ever held at the LBJ Library.
The occasion was a symposium called "Alterna
tiv s to Confrontation: A National Policy Toward
Regional Change," jointly sponsored by the
Library
- government, or
hurt democracy, when we ask tbe
important questions."
Walt W. Rostow Reviews His Career, Looks at Future
Walt and Elspeth at a recent gathering of The Austin
Project, a community-based movement which seeks
innovative and collaborative
- , Eisenhower,
Kennedy, and Johnson-joined with the Brookings
Institution in sponsoring a majOI' symposium on a
subject important to the Administrations of all four
Presidents-wage-price
policy. The idea for the
multi-Library endeavor was proposed by Walt Rostow
- , who can
do anything better than anybody." Di
rector Middleton put it another way in a
toast to the woman he called "the First
Lady of the LBJ Library"
"To
Dorothy Territo, the greatest string
saver of them all."
Mrs. Dorothy Territo
Elspeth Rostow
- . invaded North Vietnam:·
Rostow Persists
Walt Rostow. :\1ational Security
Advisor to President Johnson from
1966. was asked by a TV station to
speak on the anniversary of the fall
of Saigon. His views. set down
before Mc~amara 's book sur
faced
- at The University
of
Texas; Elspeth Rostow, former dean
of the LBJ School of Public Affairs;
and George Christian, former press
secretary to LBJ. The audience was
encouraged to submit questions to
Dr. Dallek as well, and the discus
sion which ensued was lively
- the table are (]eft to right) Dean
Rusk, Nicholas Katzenbach, Llewellyn Thompson, Walt
Rostow, McGeorge Bundy and President Johnson.
Mary Rather with Nicholas Katzenbach, President Johnson,
and Henry Fowler.
She was a young college student working for her
- Undersecretary of State for
Political Affairs
DAVID M. OSHINSKY, Professor of History, Rutgers University
ELSPETH D. ROSTOW, Stiles Professor in American Studies and Gm,ernment, LBJ School, U.T.
4
Recording History as It Happens
William Magnes (left) and
James
- of West Texas
State University.
Mr. Sherman, born in Viola, Arkansas, on January 19,
I 935, lives in Amarillo with his wife, Gene Alice Wienbroer.
Elspeth and Walt Rostow
Rostows Plan Tour
Outgoing Lyndon Baines Johnson School Dean Elspeth
Rostow and her
- cultur . The panelists w re:
Professor Elspeth Rostow, (fonner Dean
of the LBJ School of Public Affairs);
Professor Philip Bobbitt (former Senior
Director for Critical Infrastructure
Protection,
ational Security Council);
Professor Bobby Inman (former
-
ModeratorNessen with
correspondents James
Gerstenzang and Eleanor
Clift. Pictured at right ru-e
the former press secretaries.
7
EveningsAt The Library
Walt and Elspeth Rostow led a
crowded auditorium on a tour of their
eventful lives together-the daughter
- difContinued on page 2
Walker, Pickle, Ikard, Gardner, Smith, and Rostow
Spencer
Crawford
LibrarySymposium,continued
fieult to effect today because oft wo coinciding circumstances.
One is a slowdown in the economy.
The other is a phenomenon which
- , His Friend, and His Biographer: An Evening In Absentia
with John Kenneth Galbraith, September 19, 2005
James K. "Jamie" Galbraith, Elspeth Rostow, Richard Parker
In introducing James K. ' Jamie"
Galbraith, the son of famed econo
mist John Kenneth
- during that period
of time.
-William H. Beasley Ill, President
and Chief Executive Officer,
Velsicol Chemical Corp.
Panel chaired by Walt W. Rostow, center, takes a question from the audience. With Rostow are panelists Morris Adelman, Marian Blissett
- Harry Middleton and out-going
LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow. Mid
dleton stated that the number of visitors
to the Library had increased considerably
since the renovation of the Museum in
1982. D an Rostow reported that the LBJ
cho I was operating
- consisting of Harry Middleton,
Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian
(right) about her memoir, Personal
History.
Among her observations:
• She does not know who ''Deep
Throat" of Watergate fame is.
• The Nixon administration was the
most dangerous in her
- to others beyond human
control. That has een America's glory
and tragedy."
7
Library Director Harry Middleton, Elspeth Rostow, Dean of the
LBJ School, and Lorene Rogers, President of the University of
Texas at Austin, lead the applause for Joan .Mondaleon
- of the LBJ Foundation Board of
Directors at the Board's annual m etin
in the Library June 2. Flanking Mr .
Johnson are Llspeth Rostow, Dean of the
LBJ School. Mrs. Charles Engelhard, John
Barr, Secretary-Treasurer, and ChJirman
Frank C. Erwin Jr. Visible
- found it "more useful to call on selected members
of the NSC for selected problems, and to supplement them
from the outside'.'
If the President found Tuesday luncheons pr ferable to
NSC meetings, they were, as Walt Rostow notes, "only one
of many ways
- Professor Barbara Jordan, accom
panied by Walt Rostow on th piano, deli,·ered
a powerful rendition of "My Way." which many
look upon as Erwin's theme song.
Flanking a drawing f rwin by Phil Vaughn
donated to the Library by Ni k Krajl, are Lake
Erwin
- A. Califano, Jr.
10:30a.m.
':4.ssessment.What Hvrked?
What Failed? Why?"
Moderator: Elspeth D. Rostow
Panelists: James MacGregor Bums
Stuart M. Butler
John Hope Franklin
Allen J Matusow
Charle· A. Murray
John E. Schwarz
Ben J. Wattenberg
Final Word: Bill D
- Brides
.James L. Sundquist
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution
Concluding Remarks:
Elspeth D. Rostow
Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs and
Stiles Professor in American
Studies and Government
The University of Texas at Austin
9
- . William Livingston, Robert
Menlen, Stephen Monti. Shirley Bird
Perry. Thomas Staley, Lowe I I
Lebermann, Elspeth Rostow, Louann
Temple, and Sam Winters.
Julian Bond addressesa symposiumon civil rights at the LBJ Library in December.1972
- and the rise of int r
national economies have made it
more difficult for the president to
act unilateral! y."
Walt Rostow, former national
security adviser to LBJ, sees mat
ters similarly. International power
is much more diffuse than it was
thirty years ago
- left: Dr. David on S. H. W. ~icol, Dr. Gunnar Myrdal, Dean Rusk, Aha Myrdal, and Dean Elspeth Rostow.
Reprint,
- wages.
Panel Discussion: Douglass Cater, Liz Carpenter, George Christian, Bill Moyers, Jake Pickle, Elspeth Rostow,
Sargent Shriver and Jack Valenti
6
• A flood of tegislation to improve
living conditions and to "provide
lasting escape from poverty
- joined the
staff of National Security Adviser
Walt Rostow. Later that year he
became President Johnson's press
secretary. Ir was not an easy job: the
civil rights struggle, riots in the
cities, the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War,
and the Vietnam conflict saw
- for
approval, Abell got a call from an
alarmed presidential adviser Walt
Rostow, who aid,
Macmillan however got wind of
th move to chan e the program,
and immediately d cided that his
politi al opponents in Parliament
would make great fun of the whole
thing
- (he/ow): Yo1111g,11011Imdi
Iiona/, no11viole111/JeO/J!e nm changr society.
Containment and Aid:
The Foreign Policy of Four Presidents
Digest
of' an Address
hy
Elspeth Rostow.
It is perhaps the central paradox of
President Johnson's term in the White
- of MCA, Inc., and m mb r of
the Board of Directors of the LBJ Foundation.
According to Elspeth Rostow, Dean of the LBJ
School, it is hoped that the chair will be filled by
September, 1982.
LBJ BOOKS CONTINUE TO FLOURISH
Emmette Redford
Marian Blissett
-
Security Advisor;
12. Walt Rostow. who followed
Bundy as Nationa'I Security
Advisor;
13. Jack Valenti, special assistant to
the President;
14. LarryLevinson,special assistant;
15. Barry Zorthian, Chief of the
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office
in Saigon:
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- themselves in the history of the Johnson
administration. Other speakers included
George Christian, Walt Rostow, Liz Car
penter, Harry Middleton, and Eleanor Butt
Crook. Ted Gittinger, Library historian, and
Dave McNeely, political correspondent
- Whitman
Rostow"; Robert A. Bauman, "A Tale
of
Two
Agencies:
The
Implementation
of the War on
Poverty in Los Angeles"; Philip E.
Catton, "The Strategic Hamlet in
South Vietnam, I 961-1964"; Jeffrey
E. Cohen, "Strategic Management of
the President's
- ,
Frank Wolfe, Mrs. Eleanor Butt
Crook, wife of the former U. S.
Ambassador to Australia, Walt
Rostow, Liz Carpenter and Ted
Gittinger.
Approximately 900 Boys State dele
gates, staff, and sponsors were
among the Library's visitors this
spring.
LBJ
- the history
of campaign advertising and its
development with the advent of
television.
A panel of experts then pursued
subjects raised by the presentation,
particularly the effectiveness, ethics
and cost of political advertising.
Moderated by Elspeth Rostow
