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    The Taylor-Rostow Report was a report prepared in November 1961 on the situation in Vietnam in relation to Vietcong operations in South Vietnam. The report...
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    Walt Whitman Rostow OBE (rahs-TOU; October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist, professor and political theorist who served as national...
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    once. After making his report to the Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff (with Deputy National Security Adviser Walt Rostow), Taylor reflected on the decision...
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    Assistance Command, Vietnam, writing: "I do not know anyone, except perhaps Max Taylor, in the top circle of the government who believes that General Harkins is...
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    looking weak. In October 1961, when General Maxwell Taylor and State Department Counselor Walt Whitman Rostow advised sending 8,000 American combat troops to...
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  • Dector Podhoretz, Norman Ramey, Estelle R. Ramsey, Paul Ridgway, Matthew B. Rostow, Eugene V. Rusk, Dean Rustin, Bayard Saltzman, Charles E. Scaife, Richard...
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    effective in a "brush fire" war in Vietnam. Kennedy advisors Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow recommended US troops be sent to South Vietnam disguised as flood...
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    spying. In an article on anti-CND groups, Stephen Dorril reported that in 1982 Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
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    Vietnam (Report). John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved May 6, 2024. MCNAMARA-TAYLOR REPORT ON VIETNAM (PDF). cia.gov (Report). Retrieved...
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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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    Art Estopinan" (PDF). Rostow, Walt (October 9, 1967). "Memorandum to President Johnson" (PDF). National Security Archives. Rostow, Walt (October 11, 1967)...
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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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    Nixon 1955, p. 1016. Bischof 2000, p. 3. Rostow 2010, p. 168. Heller 2001, p. 187. Eisenhower 1959, p. 726. Rostow 2010, p. 167. Heruhy 1955. Legault & Fortmann...
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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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    being a woman. Shortly after the initial report, the Browns and General Manager John Dorsey denied the report saying, "Our coaching search will be thorough...
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    Secretary of State Dean Rusk and National Security Advisor Walt Whitman Rostow. Rostow very reluctantly gave his approval while Rusk told Humphrey, "We can...
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    original on February 1, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2020. Kelemen, Michele; Taylor, Jessica (March 22, 2018). "Bolton Brings Hawkish Perspective To North Korea...
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    Walter Rostow and General Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert and friend of Diệm, were among the members of his delegation. In their report written...
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    Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2014. Taylor, Guy. "Career diplomat William Burns steered the Iran talks quietly though...
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    Robb: 2005–2009 Nelson Rockefeller: 1969–1974 Joe Rodgers: 1981–1985 Eugene Rostow: 1982–1985 Warren Rudman: Vice Chair, 1993–1994; Vice Chair, 1995–1998 Edward...
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  • a memo to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, his Special Assistant Walt Rostow wrote: "retaliation is not the point in this case. This 3000-man raid with...
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  • obtained by one of the interviewees, former National Security Advisor Walt Rostow, who had claimed through his attorney that the film was "somewhat misleading"...
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    resolve this problem, Rostow suggested to Johnson that Congress pass a resolution authorizing Johnson to use force in Vietnam. Rostow was supported by William...
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    that Walt Rostow, a major architect of the Vietnam war, wanted to return to work at MIT, Chomsky threatened "to protest publicly" if Rostow were denied...
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  • courses of action in Vietnam. His staff members, Walter Rostow and retired General Maxwell Taylor recommended an increase in military advisers and a commitment...
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    General Earle "Bus" Wheeler and the National Security Adviser Walt Whitman Rostow were the leading "hawks" while the leading "doves" was Rusk's former ally...
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    basis. Mainly delivered in early 1957, the reports included an updated version of the essay by Millikan and Rostow that C.D. Jackson had circulated in 1954...
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    diplomatic solution instead while Rostow advised him to accept it. Since Westmoreland had maintained in his report that victory in Vietnam was impossible...
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    The Crisis of Détente in Europe: From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975–1985. Taylor & Francis. pp. 11–25. ISBN 978-0-415-46051-4. Michael Getler, "Dissidents...
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    believed to have killed in airstrikes since Sept. 11. cf. Kiernan, Ben; Owen, Taylor (April 26, 2015). "Making More Enemies than We Kill? Calculating U.S. Bomb...
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