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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Rostow became the Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe in 1947, and was involved in the development of the Marshall Plan.
		Rostow was Professor of Economic History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1961 and a staff member of the Center for International Studies, MIT, from 1951 to 1961.
		Rostow developed the Rostovian take-off model of economic growth, one of the major historical models of economic growth.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Walt_Rostow (924 words)

	Race Matters - Walt Rostow
		Rostow was also, colleagues recalled, a whirlwind of supreme self-confidence, talkative to the point of verbosity, certain of the moral rectitude of his positions and unwavering in the face of criticism, even as doubts about the wisdom of the Vietnam War grew in Johnson's inner circle.
		Rostow was among the first officials to urge the bombing of North Vietnam, and he was the principal author of a November 1961 report recommending an increase in United States military aid and advisers at all levels to the South Vietnamese government, shifting the relationship from purely advisory to one of "limited partnership."
		Rostow is survived by a son, Peter, of Del Rio, Calif., a daughter, Ann, of Austin, and one grandchild.
	www.racematters.org /waltrostow.htm (1615 words)

	Walt Whitman Rostow Summary
		Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow) (October 7 1916 – February 13 2003) was an American economist and political thinker prominent for his staunch opposition to Communism and belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise.
		Rostow became the Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe, in 1947 and was involved in the development of the Marshall Plan.
		Rostow was Professor of Economic History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1961 and a staff member of the Center for International Studies, MIT, from 1951 to 1961.
	www.bookrags.com /Walt_Whitman_Rostow (1573 words)

	Eugene V. Rostow - SourceWatch
		Rostow, who in his last government assignment was director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Reagan, died Monday at an assisted-living facility in Alexandria, Va. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, family members said.
		Rostow -- along with his more influential brother Walt Rostow -- were leading figures in the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
		Rostow graduated from Yale in 1933 and went on to study economics at King's College at Cambridge University in England.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Eugene_V._Rostow (1258 words)

	Print Article: The man behind LBJ's Vietnam line
		Walt Rostow, who has died aged 86, had a distinguished career as an economic historian, crowned by the publication in 1960 of The Stages of Economic Growth, a bold attempt, later much contested by specialists, to put forward a conceptual framework for economic development in the context of democratic capitalism.
		Rostow conceded so many non-typical cases, it was said, that it is hard to identify a case that exemplified his theory.
		Driving Rostow back to his temporary office in the State Department, Kennedy surprised him both by justifying his decision to run for president at such a young age, and by praising Lyndon Johnson as the one man with a better claim on the White House.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/02/19/1045638365663.html (1569 words)

	Walt Rostow - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow) (October 7, 1916 - February 13, 2003) was an American economist and political thinker prominent for his staunch opposition to Communism and belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise.
		Walt Rostow was born in New York City, New York in a Russian immigrant family.
		Rostow wrote President Johnson's first state of the union speech and was appointed by Johnson in May 1964 United States Member of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress (CIAP).
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Walt_Rostow (423 words)

	Eugene V. Rostow - Disinfopedia
		Rostow, who in his last government assignment was director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Reagan, died Monday at an assisted-living facility in Alexandria, Va. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, family members said.
		Walt Rostow -- were leading figures in the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
		Rostow was an early critic of the Supreme Court's ruling that supported the internment of Japanese Americans.
	www.mefacts.com /cache/html/bio/10956.htm (1265 words)

	Walt Whitman Rostow
		Rostow's identification of and focus on the "take-off," a stage of relatively short duration in which all the necessary factors are in place for self-sustaining growth, became a lightning rod for criticism.
		Walt mentioned a history of women and gambling debts, and Johnson fixed him with a stare: “That’s not a reason to kill a man.” Johnson called the junta leader and Papandreou's life was spared.
		Walt Whitman Rostow was more than a famous economist, a tireless worker for good causes and a civil man. He was a great American who served his country with devotion in war and peace.
	www.utexas.edu /faculty/council/2003-2004/memorials/rostow/rostow.html (3882 words)

	Eugene V. Rostow at AllExperts
		Eugene Debs Rostow was born on 25th August, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, a grandson of poor Jewish immigrants from Russian empire, and raised in Irvington, New Jersey, and New Haven, Connecticut.
		Rostow attended Groton School, and was admitted to Yale College in 1929.
		During World War II Rostow served as in the Lend-Lease Administration as an assistant general counsel, in the State Department as liaison to the Lend-Lease Administration, and as an assistant to thenâ"Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/eu/eugene_v._rostow.htm (664 words)

	Walt Whitman Rostow Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official.
		Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian (Helman) Rostow.
		Rostow continued his prolific scholarship, writing a series of books during this period on history, economics, and international affairs.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walt-whitman-rostow (823 words)

	Intrepid Media: The Empire Of You
		Rostow, though, had long since built a psychological shell around himself thicker than the Maddox's hull, and he had coated it with a non-stick substance Dupont only wish they held the patent for.
		Walt Rostow was a profoundly misguided hack, and that was how he served his nation.
		If Rostow is what we must miss and admire today, as the US slides, using a Tonkin Resolution look-alike as a sled, down the petroleum-greased slope toward a manifestly unpopular conflict in Iraq, it is not the bereaved Elspeth who needs our sympathies most.
	intrepidmedia.com /column.asp?id=1153 (1345 words)

	Walt Whitman Rostow - Encyclopedia.com
		Rostow, Walt Whitman 1916-2003, U.S. economist and government official, brother of Eugene Rostow, b.
		A Yale Ph.D. (1940) and Rhodes scholar, he served (1942-45) with the covert Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later was (1950-61) a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		As chairman (1961-66) of the policy planning council of the State Dept., and later as special assistant for national security affairs (1966-69) to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow exerted a major influence on U.S. foreign policy and strongly advocated the escalating military intervention in Vietnam (see Vietnam War).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Rostow-W.html (406 words)

	Law School Dean Eugene Rostow Dies Associated Press
		Rostow was undersecretary of state in the late 1960s when the nation's involvement in Vietnam was growing.
		Eugene Rostow was dean of the law school at Yale University from 1955 to 1965 and was credited with revamping the curriculum and elevating the school's reputation.
		Rostow was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1913, and reared in New Haven, Conn.
	www.chesslaw.com /rostow.htm (385 words)

	Walt Rostow \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		A particular merit of Rostow's book, from the standpoint of Washington's policymakers in the Kennedy and Johnson years, was that it was concerned with the third world, though Rostow's experience of developing countries was severely limited.
		Rostow wrote back, as he later remembered, "basically saying: 'You can count on me'." Indeed, he was invited to help draft Johnson's first state of the union speech.
		The Rostows found themselves in a congenial circle, whose leading lights included Lady Bird Johnson, the president's widow, his nephew Philip Bobbitt, author of The Shield of Achilles, Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library, and the African-American law professor and congresswoman, Barbara Jordan.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,896940,00.html (1689 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Where is the flight plan? - Sunday \| November 19, 2006
		Walt Rostow, an American economic historian, took the view that if a country is to move from a backward state to a modern society, it must pass through five stages.
		For Rostow, the "high mass consumption society" displays economic growth that is self-sustaining and virtually automatic.
		Rostow's idea was developed against the backdrop of the cold war and United States paranoia of the spread of communism in developing countries.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20061119/cleisure/cleisure3.html (918 words)

	Walt Rostow Obituary, Vietnam War Advisor Dies
		Rostow then pursued a career as a scholar of economic modernization and a prominent adviser to politicians.
		Walt Whitman Rostow was born Oct. 7, 1916, in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents who gave their three sons distinctive American names.
		Johnson called Rostow back to the White House in early 1966 to serve as special assistant for national security affairs, the post now known as national security adviser, where he remained until Richard Nixon was sworn in.
	texana.texascooking.com /news/waltrostowobituary.htm (868 words)

	Docs 149-205
		Rostow said that the evidence on who had started the fighting was not definitive, but that there was an interesting report from Cairo of indications of unusual activities in the UAR forces before the first Israeli strike at 9 a.m.
		Rostow's brief covering memorandum commented that Amit's argument was consistent with Eshkol's: that there had been artillery fire on three Israeli villages and UAR air incursions, and then the Israelis had "punched all the buttons." Rostow added, "At least that's his story." (Ibid.) For McPherson's report of his visit to Israel, see Document 263.
		with Rusk, McNamara, Thompson, Katzenbach, Bundy, and Walt Rostow.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xix/28058.htm (16095 words)

	Professor and former LBJ adviser dies at age 86 - University
		Walt Rostow Jr., professor emeritus of political economy in the history department and national security adviser to presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, died Thursday night at the age of 86.
		Rostow was a proponent of the Vietnam War and the "domino theory" which suggested that once communism had a foothold in one country, it would move into the surrounding region.
		Rostow wrote more than 30 books on a variety of economic subjects, which Temple said was his greatest contribution.
	media.www.dailytexanonline.com /media/storage/paper410/news/2003/02/17/University/Professor.And.Former.Lbj.Adviser.Dies.At.Age.86-496026.shtml?norewrite200612312016&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (609 words)

	Professor and former LBJ adviser dies at age 86 - University
		Walt Rostow Jr., professor emeritus of political economy in the history department and national security adviser to presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, died Thursday night at the age of 86.
		Rostow was a proponent of the Vietnam War and the "domino theory" which suggested that once communism had a foothold in one country, it would move into the surrounding region.
		Rostow wrote more than 30 books on a variety of economic subjects, which Temple said was his greatest contribution.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/storage/paper410/news/2003/02/17/University/Professor.And.Former.Lbj.Adviser.Dies.At.Age.86-496026.shtml?norewrite200604122057&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (609 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Walt Rostow got better known because of his theoretical formulation of the economics of take-off.
		Walt Rostow became one of John Kennedy?s close advisers after the latter was elected president.
		The person who bore Walt Whitman?s noble name, took pride as being one of the principal architects of the killings and pillage the Vietnamese were subjected to.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060217/asp/opinion/story_5850153.asp (1259 words)

	The Scotsman - Obituaries - Walt Rostow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WALT Whitman Rostow was an economist who became a White House aide during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and was best known for his hardline stance on the US war in Vietnam.
		Though Rostow accepted the first part of McNamara’s proposal, he was adamantly opposed to a halt in the bombings - and President Johnson sided with Rostow.
		His brother, Eugene V Rostow, who was President Johnson’s under-secretary of state and also a strong supporter of the war in Vietnam, died on 25 November last year.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=204342003 (732 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - UT adds national security chair
		When Walt Rostow wrote a non-communist manifesto in 1960, he had taught at Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		The LBJ Foundation held a luncheon to commemorate the Rostows and celebrate the establishment of the chair at the LBJ Library and Museum Friday.
		Elspeth Rostow said she and her husband disagreed on many issues, one of which was his belief in the basic goodness of humanity.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2007/dtexan/200703/20070305security.html (553 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Walt Whitman Rostow
		Of Walt Whitman Rostow it can and will be said in truth that he advanced the cause of freedom as few men did in his time.
		From 1950-1961, Dr. Rostow was Professor of Economic History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1951-1961 he was also a staff member of the Center for International Studies, M.I.T. In January 1961, President Kennedy appointed Dr. Rostow as Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
		Rostow was the author of over 30 books the latest of which are: Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present, With a Perspective on the Next Century (1990), the third edition of The Stages of Economic Growth (1990), and The Great Population Spike and After: Reflections on the 21st Century (1998).
	www.medaloffreedom.com /WaltWhitmanRostow.htm (636 words)

	WALT W. ROSTOW / Presidential adviser to Kennedy, Johnson
		Rostow was Lyndon B. Johnson's special assistant for national security affairs in the final three years of the Johnson presidency, 1966 to 1969, the period of the greatest U.S. military commitment in the Southeast Asian war.
		Rostow was an influential member of the corps of academic intellectuals Kennedy called to Washington to shape and staff the new administration.
		Rostow, a native of New York, graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes scholar at Balliol College in Oxford, England.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/15/BA160788.DTL (788 words)

	News Release 02/2003: Johnson adviser Walt W. Rostow dies at 86
		AUSTIN, Texas—Funeral arrangements have been announced for Walt W. Rostow, a professor emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin who during the 1960s was special assistant for National Security Affairs in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
		From 1950-1961 Rostow was professor of economic history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and from 1951-1961 he was also a staff member of the Center for International Studies at MIT.
		Rostow received the Order of the British Empire (honorary, military division, 1945), the Legion of Merit (1945), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (with distinction, 1969).
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200302/nr_rostow030214.html (672 words)

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