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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (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, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in it. This was a technique I always used, of throwing the kitchen sink and all the spices into a speech and then letting her weed out and tighten and make choices, having seen what might be done. Elspeth Rostow was invited by Mrs. Johnson as well to read it, and she made

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't know the reason that Fulbright was in the Cabinet Room, but I know that the heavies were in there: [Walt] Rostow, Rusk, [Richard] Helms. sure whether [Earle] Wheeler was in there. I'm not No, Wheeler couldn't have been in there, but Clark

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

function. We met before every State vi sit, in what they call the Situation Room of the White House, a month before the visit if we had that much time, and rapped together with Walt Rostow, as chairman, [the] desk officer, [the] country director, and maybe

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be awakened) I could aivaken him. Usually only sor;:ebody like ~{alt There l"asn' t any prob lern about that. Rostow l~ould do that. Walt's about the only one that usually had some thing like that of that kind of urgency, handlir.g f: You £orei~ p::-o

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, "This isn't right. This isn't right. This isn't the recommendation." And about two months after that, Kennedy sent General Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow to Vietnam and had them make their investigation. They were really big shots. They came back

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, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (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

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] he came in, he was going to be the assistant to [Walt] Rostow or something, he was down in the basement. He was going to take that and he was going to take care of only the Texas press. I was sort of his liaison at the time; I would go down

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. These were given by instructors from the Brookings staff. I remember Walt Rostow came over from the White House to give one; heads of regulatory agencies, Nicholas Johnson, the Housing Administrator, and people of that caliber showed up every day. format

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it with, and I stuck that comment on it. But the memo went to Carver, and Carver slapped a cover memo on it basically saying that the CIA headquarters didn't really agree with the Hovey memo. And this whole package went to Walt Rostow on the fifteenth

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: All right. M: So, Hawaii. The Senate votes to admit Hawaii to the Union and the House passes it. This has been said, by some, to be important in LBJ's whole attitude toward the Pacific and toward civil rights. Walt Rostow, for one, makes a real point

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; 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, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for the Shah of Iran, a very attractive and warm and lovely occasion. As usual [there were] a number of conversations all around the room with the Rostows, with Nat and Margaret Owings, with Maxwell Taylor, with the Carters, he being the Negro mayor

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)