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    administration players: "My confidence 14 months ago sprang from having worked for Don Rumsfeld three times—knowing he would fashion a most creative and detailed...
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    Six-Day War. A memorandum from the President's Special Assistant, Walt Rostow, to President Johnson said: "What's on the Arab Ambassadors' minds boils...
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    a "brush fire" war in Vietnam. Kennedy advisors Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow recommended US troops be sent to South Vietnam disguised as flood relief...
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    were succeeding. Under the leadership of National Security Advisor Walt W. Rostow, the news media then was inundated by a wave of effusive optimism. Every...
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    his bed, and he periodically interrupted what he was doing to lie down and don the mask. He continued to smoke heavily and, although nominally on a low-calorie...
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    Base destroyed four RVNAF A-1H Skyraiders and two UH-34s.: 56  8 May Walt Rostow recommended to Johnson that bombing should be reduced to infiltration routes...
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    appalled when Johnson's newly appointed National Security Adviser, W.W. Rostow, told him that he did not expect the bombing of North Vietnam to continue...
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    about a government role in this issue. I am a strong proponent of parental choice—of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term...
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    States President Lyndon B. Johnson from his National Security Advisor Walt Rostow, called the decision to kill Guevara "stupid" but "understandable from a...
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    hiring Flynn. On January 4, 2017, Flynn informed transition team counsel Don McGahn, soon to become the White House Counsel, that he was under federal...
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    busy itinerary focused on economic issues, including Paul Samuelson, Walt Rostow, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer and Nelson Rockefeller. Following the visit, Heath...
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    governments." According to Johnson's National Security Adviser, Walt Whitman Rostow, the NSC even contemplated welcoming Arif on a state visit to the U.S.,...
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    the Diệm government didn't know, too". A picture of Taylor, Minh and Walt Rostow on the tennis court in Saigon in October was printed with the caption "There...
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    had launched his Cultural Revolution. The National Security Adviser, W.W. Rostow, wrote the reply to Galbraith that was signed by Johnson, curtly declaring:...
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    adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor and Deputy National Security Adviser Walt Rostow recommended the deployment of 6,000 to 8,000 U.S. combat troops to Vietnam...
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    principal advisers—Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Walter Rostow—echoed Sorensen's views. In December, Senator Mike Mansfield had proposed...
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    a Jewish group when naming those who supported the war." Neumann said, "I am not accusing Powell of anything, but these are words that the antisemites...
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    told of the functions of the secret Supreme Military Committee (SMC). Walt Rostow briefed President Johnson and concluded that the SMC was "in effect, a scheme...
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    mission by General Maxwell Taylor, the chief of the US military, and Walt Rostow, Thơ and Minh complained of Diệm's autocratic ways and religious favoritism...
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    Museums Program. pp. 289–290. Milne, David (2008). America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War. Macmillan. p. 172. "Ships Prepare to Sail Again at...
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    Ozzie and Harriet and Hazel; in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1993) Eugene V. Rostow, U.S. presidential adviser on foreign affairs to Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald...
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