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Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 M: Where did you see these drafts? C: I saw these drafts at the State Department. And my own feeling is that what happened was that perhaps Rostow, with Rusk's okay and McNamara's okay, or perhaps one

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh THOMSON -- I -- 3 I stayed on his staff and on loan from State till he, in due course, pulled out and I inherited Mr. Rostow. But just about the time, coincidentally, of Mac Bundy's decision

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

might find that he did. Why did Mr. Johnson decide to appoint you when Francis Bator-K: I think you may also find that before Kaysen, Rostow had it. M: You went back that far? K: 1961. M: I thought they used a lower ranking title. K: Negative

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the ultimate responsibility for it, and I do think that men like Walt Rostow, and Rusk, and several others along with the President have to share the responsibility for having made the decision; whether a different group of men w.ould have made a very
work there; Walt Rostow; Dan Rusk; making decisions with out of date information/opinions; expressing disagreement with the President’s choices; U.S. relationship with China; Fullbright hearings; LBJ’s distrust of intellectual Easterners; LBJ’s accent

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was on the national security staff of Mr. Rostow. Prior to that you had been deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs from 1965 until 1966. Prior to that you had been special assistant to Mr. [Averell] Harriman. been on the Policy Planning Council

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever doubt the accuracy of the information he was receiving from his official sources, say Walt Rostow or. . .? Z: Oh, yes. G: Did he really? Z: Yes, I think he'd raise the question. He'd do it in two ways. Half the time when he was talking
1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: When Walt Rostow went over to the White House in March of 1966 I became acting chairman of the Policy Planning Council and then I was assigned to the job on a permanent basis in June of 66 . M: I believe you have been with the Policy Council in some
Contact with LBJ; Walt Rostow; Dean Acheson; Policy Planning Council; bureaucratic resistance to new ideas; multilateral force; non-proliferation treaty; Andrew Copkin; MLF; PPC's contacts in academic community; Vietnam policy; Bureau

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: EUGENE V. ROSTOW INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Atomic Energy Commission, and I got a message from Walt Rostow saying that the President thought that since this thing was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, at any rate. F: Was there any essential difference between working with Bundy and working with Rostow? K: I didn't work with Rostow as intimately, of course, as I did with Bundy simply because I was Bundy's interim successor as Special Assistant
; differences between Walt Rostow and McGeorge Bundy; Komer taking charge of Vietnam issues as Special Assistant to the President; the quasi-military character of “the other war” in Vietnam vs. pacification; unifying the management of the war; using the term

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Yes. Well, I'm just saying that that's how I got in and that was the outcome. G: Yes. Was Walt Rostow the head of the Policy Planning Council then? J: He was not. G: And Rostow took over, I guess, shortly thereafter? J: And Walt replaced

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and I remember General [Maxwell] Taylor telling him so in rather brutal terms. G: Do you recall the occasion for that? N: Yes, it was at the time of the Taylor-Rostow mission. -~ 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

vaguely that we had some of these high-level meetings with [Walt] Rostow and [Dean] Rusk, and CIA and Defense, et cetera. I don't think that that group ever--I don't think it lasted long, and I don't think it did very much. I think it pretty much fell

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. But to my knowledge, no one called [Walt] Rostow or any of the political people. G: Was there a reason for that? LG: I just have no idea. I kept on asking, because I wanted the doors open, I wanted to get the damn thing done. G: Some people have said

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, after the Johnson visit early in the year and after the [Eugene] Staley mission and so on. When I got there the [Walt] Rostow-[r~axwell] Taylor mission was there. I think they'd arrived a couple of days before, and they were going through
Circumstances of assignment to Vietnam; attitude toward Diem; Edward Lansdale; meeting with LBJ; Taylor-Rostow mission; the Thompson mission; Trueheart Commission; strategic hamlet program; meetings with Diem; Mike Mansfield visit; Buddhists; period

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it was not dealing directly with the President? McC: Walt Rostow. McS: Only Mr. Rostow? McC: He was the main one because he was his assistant for military affairs. Naturally, he ~as the one. anyone else, I believe. All of us worked with Walt more than LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with his foreign minister and his deputy prime minister, and a member of his staff who is roughly the equivalent of Walt Rostow, and with others. I had seen most of the senior people in the government. He knew by that time that contrary to the press

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jorden -- IV -- 12 called Dean Rusk--(Laughter)--and Dean Rusk called Averell Harriman, and so on and so on. Well, I got a call from Walt Rostow, and he said, "What's this about progress?" and so on and so on. use the word

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