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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, 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, 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