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Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. These would be Cabinet meetings, National Security Council meetings, and then, when Walt Rostow became the special assi stant for nat; ona 1 security affai rs, President Johnson started the so-called Tuesday Luncheons, which I always attended. the regular

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Rostow. Do you have any recollection of his being considered? B: Very slightly. I know Eugene Rostow in another area, I don't know whether I'm recalling LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in unifying their own people and in using the many forms of aid the U.S. would give. Nor did I anticipate the domestic divisions in the U.S. that eventually forced us to abandon our allies and come home in humiliation. G: Walt Rostow has said

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the export program, because the trade balance is another aspect of it. Sometime in October or November (and you'll have to use externals for exact dates), I received a phone call from Walt Rostow, I believe, saying that he understood from the President

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--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

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 and Mac Bundy and Walt Rostow and others whom I can't remember, in which I felt it my duty to, despite some contrary advice from some of my colleagues, to tell the president exactly what had been said. It didn't seem

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

something up, I think working through Walt Rostow. But all this produced was that Rostow said he would be delighted to talk to me but the President didn't want to talk to me. I said I wasn't interested in talking to Walt because I knew perfectly well, I

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Vietnamese army was hav ing a tough time. L: Very. G: Did we consider at least contingency plans at that time for sending in U.S. troops? L: No, not in that particular period, not in 1961. G: Now, I know that General Taylor and Mr. [Walt] Rostow went

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the mission headed by General /Maxwell D ./ Taylor and Walt Rostow went to Vietnam, I was very active on Secretary McNamara's behalf in the policy review that followed the return of that mission . And that policy review included a number of meetings over

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. C: Exactly. They weren't very consequential. principle of the thing. But it was a kind of a There was a feeling on the part of some people-- M: Now, was this primarily Rusk and Rostow? C: Rusk and Rostow, primarily; there may have been

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 Walt Rostow and four or five other representatives of the government to examine the situation and make recommendations--which turned out to be a rather historic mission because

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

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-centered, touchy about his assimilated rank of ambassador and its four-star prerogatives, and devoted only to his own advancement and his own mission. II Now, that shows you. I do, though, say, as Mr. [Walt] Rostow did in his book, The Diffusion

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Walt Rostow, who was then a Kennedy staff person, and General Taylor, [·Jax Taylor went out to Vietnam. There was that great picture of them on that tennis court which some historian is going to use in a satirical way sometime. came bick

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

appointments with a very long, solemn, "Joe, I know the President values your opinion. This grave decision is going to be made about--." case it was about [Walt W.] Rostow and [Robert] Kintner. think that these are wise appointments? very much." In one

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had the same question as I went through it. know why we used that. I don't I believe the President was briefed, which if 1968 is correct would have meant that Walt Rostow was in on the thing. "To determine the validity of the opposing viewpoints

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the White House staff? G: Right. M: Or the domestic people? G: Nope, M: These are the Rostow operation-- G: The Bundys, the Ro.stows, M: Right. the former. and their staffs. And they get to be pretty numerous sometimes, I'm sure. What about

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1961, yes. He had quite an argument about what ought to be done out there, because he did not agree with the Taylor-Staley [Taylor-Rostow?] mission approach, which was pretty conventional: build up the conventional army. That was another thing

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

G: That thesis I think Walt Rostow proposed some time ago, that this is what makes the guerrilla's job so easy, all he has to do is break things up. P: Yes. G: Now, an alternative--I should sayan antithesis--has been propounded, which

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be an appropriate time to get together . But, frankly, as the Congressional elections impended, it didn't seem likely that the President would wish to do it in that period . l have done a memorandum which is available in the Library . I wrote it to Walt Rostow

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

secretary a6reed. George Ball saw the point. But in Eugene Rostow, the So in the State bepartment at the top level, I had agreement in principle. In the White Rsuse, Harry McPherson felt very strongly about it on my side. After all, in my position

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was the press secretary, [and he met] purely so that he would be aware of what was going on. Walt Rostow, and, occasionally, Vice President Humphrey would attend. time, Justice Fortas would attend. From time to Before he was secretary of defense

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the [Maxwell?] Taylor-[Walt?] Rostow visitation which descended on the embassy in--I guess it was the spring of that year? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781