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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
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • House had been [McGeorge] Bundy and after he left, his successor [Walt W. Rostow]. M: You couldn't confirm that there was such a kind of sideways network to the President's ear on this matter? F: No, I think the President's ear in this matter
  • 1964 Presidential message to 18 nation Disarmament Commission; Pastore resolution; William Foster; MFL; Walt Rostow; Aleksei A. Roshchin; George Bunn; Sam DePalma; Tsoraphin; Ambassador Swidbert Schnippenkoetter; Ambassador Knappstein; Mr. Gromyko
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • such as Califano, McPherson, Cater, Valenti in his day, certainly Rostow, George Christian, Bill Moyers very much so in his day, myself and some others would in effect point a vacuum cleaner at the country and suck up any and all ideas we could. Then there would
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
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, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the Rostow brothers have a Jewish heritage, and they said that Johnson had nothing but zionists advising him. AG: Yes, I saw that, and it's a lot of poppycock. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage, I don't like any American who's not proud of his heritage
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Clark Clifford -- Interview III -- 2 informed Walt Rostow that the President did wish to take
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • back for anything other than White House dinners, something of that sort, and to have a chin with Walt Rostow or with Francis Bator, or usually with both, when I was down there on any other business, until December 1966, or 25 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? P: I think it is the general practice. There were, also, of course meetings with Walt Rostow and others on the White House staff. Hamilton was in very close touch with this. Ed lots of liaison between the White House and-M: ,&les Rostow' s
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President brought in large groups of the staff, he would excuse them when certain subjects carne up, particularly the war. The others normally in attendance--Califano and Rostow and Cater, and McPherson, Marvin Watson, Jim Jones--they almost always stayed
  • relationship with President; George Reedy; Charlie Murphy; press relations; Walt Rostow; cycle of politics; poverty program; Sargent Shriver; transition experiences
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, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with [Walt] Rostow. They both briefed me very extensively on what they' thought the problems were at the U.N. Then I had further briefings from Rostow personally and spent the next sever~l days at the State Department. M: The consensus of the opinion
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, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was the bombing of North Vietnam. I went over to the White House and had a lengthy session with Clark Clifford, Walt Rostow, and Harry McPherson. Then a few days later, the President had a meeting that really adjourned over to the dining room in the Mansion
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -- Interview I -- 6 task force, and he continued to exhibit that reluctance to send more people out. In the summer of 1961 when Taylor and Walt Rostow came back and recommended that, in fact, a combat battalion going in under the guise of being an engineering
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
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Johnson's Administration? P: I think it was mainly in the White House. I was never part of his circle, so I don't quite know who made the decisions within the White House. I think Rostow was, I understand, very active there. I always understood, from
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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as we talked briefly, Arthur Burns talked to [Walt?] Rostow and sent him a paper, and asked questions about whether it was an appropriate time for a tax increase. Johnson was always ambivalent about it, because he knew how tough the politics of it were
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • in government your choice of a course to teach? BARBARA: Ethics in government was not my choice. I didn't have a choice of any particular subject matter, but when asked by Elspeth Rostow, who at the time I came to the school was Dean of the LBJ School, when I
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
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, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • known Walt Rostow for a number of years and we have had perfectly good relations, I was so out of sympathy with his personal views on Viet ~am and with his general operating style--his tendency to ask for advice and engage in a three hour monologue
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ], Elspeth Rostow [ER], Sid Davis [SD]. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 OBH: Well, thank you, Lady Bird, for this wonderful occasion and for this wonderful week that all of us have enjoyed so much--rather
  • Rostow, Elspeth
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of regret, and I do know that he felt that in choosing Walt Rostow he was getting somebody who would be more helpful to him than Bundy had been. But I cannot give you much more on that. I just remember there was no feeling of big loss, and I think within
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thoughts about important speeches with the Valentis, the Moyers, the Goodwins, the McBundys, the Walt Rostows, and in the last two years with myself. But to throw a skew into this neat analysis, or cop-out, Lyndon Johnson would also discuss in great
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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or domestic problems we had and probably as much backgrounding of the press as anybody there except Christian and [Walt] Rostow, but again, in program areas, trying to sell our programs, or what have you. The only exception really was when I would ask
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • point with Freeman and Rusk and Rostow and Bundy--I see one here for five o'clock on February 3, but I had one which led into a six o'clock meeting with the President, but I had one before that with that group, which preceded my memo of February 3. (Long
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT McNAMARA INTERVIEWER: Walt W. Rostow PLACE: Washington, D.C. M: Walt, I would like to start this discussion by recording my skepticism of the value of oral history and my reluctance to participate in it. To be candid, I should tell
  • Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • telling him that if you did certain things, that we could win. [William] Westmoreland and [Robert] McNamara and [Walt] Rostow and everybody that advised him on Vietnam were telling him that if you did certain military things, you could force them
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Rostow were there; and my
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
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