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  • in the meeting, I guess he thought we were taking Kennedy's word against his. But Kennedy was talking to Katzenbach and other people, you see, as they came down the hall. Anyway, I got called up into Rostow's office and was told that there hadn't been
  • . 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
  • 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
  • couldn't win, how we were involved, how the sentiment even in Vietnam was against us . The CIA claimed that their messages were not getting through, and they blamed people who were at the White House close to the President : Walter Rostow, whom I met