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Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the unit in the State Depart ment . With people like Walt Rostow and his immediate associates close to the President, there was less immediate need for the President to rely on the Policy Planning Council . Secondly, the Secretary of State himself

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. There was a theoretical idea. It may have been just a little more than the traffic bore at the time. G: This is jumping ahead a little bit but it I think is a good follow-up to that. You mentioned Ataturk and several other models. Other commentators--I think Walt Rostow
; the role of the media; CORDS; Taylor-Rostow mission

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

defensive Rostow But I think anybody looking at the results would have to say either they refused to believe the intelligence or they took damned poor action on some of it. But I think there was no LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

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, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to say that during both Mac Bundy's and Walt Rostow's time the White House staff, or the National Security Council staff as run by these two White House men, aimed at facilitating the job of the President, while not seizing the initiative or alienating

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

channels to put things into the White House? Did you normally go through Harry McPherson or did you normally go through Rostow or Bundy? S: No, normally, the recormlendations would go from Secretary Rusk to the President. We would do the staff work. M

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Symington--whoever was chief of protocol; Walt Rostow; Mac Bundy; and Moyers; Secret Service; the Signal Corps and myself and the advance captain in each country. And we discussed everything from Bess Abell and the Protocol Chief's point of view

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

we found to be of tremendous use. As a matter of fact, I recommended it to Walt Rostow yesterday to be continued in the new Administration. Every morning at about ten o'clock, we have a conference call between the White House, the Defense
House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip

Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: No. No, he never got in contact with me at all. As a matter of fact, my relationship was basically with the State Department. I was brought in because people like Owen and Bowie and Rostow knew me, and we'd worked together. M: You mention Rostow, who

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. This combination of things happening at about the same time as I arrived had created a great cloud of gloom over the whole official front. G: Now, when the so-called Taylor-Rostow report of this trip was written, you and Dr. [Walt] Rostow apparently both believed
Biographical information; 1957 trip to Vietnam; General Sam Williams; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow report; intelligence; Lionel McGarr; coordination; Diem coup; Harkins and Lodge; KATUSAs; Westmoreland; State Department; bombing campaign; Taylor’s

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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.

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: It makes it difficult and makes people clam up. On the other hand in the foreign field, when both Mac Bundy and Walt Rostow were running the White House foreign policy shop they were pretty accessible, depending on the nature of the problem, and he let

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to this team around Stevenson in' 59 and' 60, one of them was Walt Rostow and did Walt show any evidence in thCJse days of developing into what we've come to call a hard-liner? 2 ----·-- -------- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] ZORTHIAN -- I -- 15 More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh enthusiasm and optimism, and I think Walt Rostow, at times, used to get carried away in trying to counterbalance
in Vietnam; the optimism of W. Rostow; briefing visiting VIPs; LBJ on peasant land ownership; Ambassadors Taylor, Lodge, and Bunker compared; reassignment from Vietnam; a contribution to the 1968 HHH campaign

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and Bundy were pushing me to be Rostow's replacement as the head of the Policy Planning Office at State when Walt went over to the White H6use. M: They were already talking about Walt going to the White House at that point? R: When did he go to the White
Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

received a phone call. from Bill Moyers, asking whether I could come down and meet with the President. He wanted to talk to me about some possibilities in the international area. I came down and sat with the President, Bill Moyers and Walt Rostow

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where Laitin kept the press waiting until midnight for information that never materialized; the trip to the Honolulu Conference; Moyers’ opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Walt Rostow; advancing a trip to Korea and plans to have LBJ visit

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

those of us outside the White House. meetings, for example, such as--this is a somewhat There are different issue--there is a regular Monday afternoon meeting at the White House, which actually I rarely attend, which is chaired by Walt Rostow

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in writing as far as I know, the President indicated that he would like to have Harriman "in charge of peace." Now I don't know \vhether he was serious about it or not, and I don't know whether he consulted Rusk about it, or even Rostow about

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for anyone who was trying to quit smoking or quit drinking or do anything like that. It was really-G: Was Vietnam a divisive issue in terms of the staff? C: Well, I think certainly McPherson and [Walt] Rostow did not see eye to eye on it. McNamara

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on President Johnson. It's also sometimes alleged that Walt Rostow exerted undue influence. Do you think that he was more than just one more adviser, or do--? C: I'm not sure that I- F: This is subjective, I know. 12 LBJ Presidential Library http
Council; Walt Rostow; CIA creation; Kennedy’s appointment of board to investigate foreign operations of CIA; Defense Intelligence Agency; National Security Agency; My Lai massacre; LBJ’s opinion of Rusk; Secretaries Gardner, Wirtz, Katzenback

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the way we're running it that I'm even not going to criticize." G: I'm sure you've heard the famous story of his confrontation with Walt Rostow, right at Tet, in fact.He came in and Rostow said, "Now, before you start, Vann, I know where you're coming

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

no planning. At one time we were in a meeting in the Situation Room with Mr. Rostow to talk about the proposed visit of a leader of an African country, and just as the meeting began someone rushed in with a long, long face, and handed a note to Mr. Rostow--we

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Duke of York. M: Did the President seem obviously affected by the consensus? B: I thought he was greatly shaken by it. Then there was an effort on Walt Rostow's part to some extent to say that these guys have been prated by a very unfair briefing

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, in late June, that Walt Rostow had called the President about something. Juanita Roberts had answered and decided not to interrupt him for some thirty minutes or half hour or so, whatever it was. When the President called back, maybe it was an hour, Rostow

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to get the North Vietnamese to negotiate and during the early part of my group's existence, we were concentrating more on efforts in the South to get that to come about. Now in the spring of 1964, we had of course constant suggestions by Walt Rostow

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mentioned that. Right. H: That's March, 1964, because Walt Rostow and the others were already putting pressure on the President to bomb the North. Now, my point about that was that it would be interpreted as an act of desperation, an admission
Biographical information; departed government in 1964 over policy in Vietnam; JFK, Harriman, Forrestal and Hilsman were all for a political approach while LBJ was for a military approach; LBJ: “It’s the only war we’ve got;” Rostow and McNamara were

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in history as the most effective President we've had since Franklin Roosevelt. M: GM: What happened then? Did he take bad advice and, if so, from whom? He took bad advice from Dean Rusk, from McGeorge Bundy, from Mr. Rostow, from the Joint Chiefs--who were

Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. And to the Budget Director himself. The Budget Director sends it to the Secretary of the Treasury who personally reviews it with the help of his staff. Then it proceeds back to the Budget Director and then to the White House through Walt Rostow's office. Each

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and deed." Now that phrase, sentence, was actually uttered early that morning by Eugene Rostow, who was undersecretary of state for political affairs and one of several of us who were summoned to the Operations Center as information was coming in from

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

disappeared. But I think it was important when Roosevelt and Hopkins were around. Harry Hopkins was the one that set it up. M: Yes, sir. You didn't have, though, a policy role such as presumably Rostow does. B: Not particularly, no. Anyway, we
Biographical information; Vietnam War; Clark Clifford; Paul Nitze; Dick Helms; DeGaulle; Phil Farley; Henry Kuss; morale problems; Wriston Report; McGeorge Bundy; Christian Herter; Walt Rostow; Dean Rusk; McCarthyism; Yalta; Andrei Gomyko; Kosygin

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

." Now that phrase, sentence, was actually uttered early that morning by Eugene Rostow, who was undersecretary of state for political affairs and one of several of us who were summoned to the Operations Center as information was coming in from the Middle

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

to a wide spectrum of people, with a wide range of views. He'll talk to Harry McPherson and Dick Goodwin and to Marvin Watson and Walt Rostow, maybe all on Vietnam; and you've got two completely opposing views and political philosophies. No doubt when he

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, indicating that the President wanted me to work at least for a time under Walt Rostow in the Nationa l Security Office , working on r eports , working on materials for t he President, possibly doing so me other writin g . There was no indication

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, of course, I gather was quite stormy. That's the one where Time said that the Senator called the President a son-of-a-bitch, which he didn't. I don't know who relayed that story. The only people present, I gather, were Katzenbach, Rostow, the President

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

? N: The San Antonio speech, for instance, was drafted by many different people, and I think the final drafts were worked out by Mr. [Nicholas] Katzenbach, Mr. [Walt?] Rostow, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. stopped? to get some of the maritime he may have carried ever had any intention was thinking rather We did it. the President I think really in that'. them some expert on this. or not we kind of thing. Gene Rostow worked on some plans
; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March

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