Presidential advisor to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Walt Whitman Rostow played a pivotal role in the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Fall of 1962 as well as the conduct of the Vietnam War in the 1960's.
Rostow was commissioned as a Major in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the precursor of the CIA.
Professor of Economic History at Oxford, MIT, and Columbia. BA, Yale; PhD, 1940. As a Department of State policy planner, Rostow was a member of President Kennedy's Ex-Comm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) during the October, 1962 Cuban missile crisis. As national security advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow was a prime advocate and policy formulator of United States military action in Vietnam. After the election of Richard Nixon as President in 1968, Rostow along with wife Elspeth (1917-2007) were appointed to the University of Texas at Austin, where Walt Rostow was a professor of economics from 1969 to 2003.
Rostow was commissioned as a Major in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the precursor of the CIA.
Professor of Economic History at Oxford, MIT, and Columbia. BA, Yale; PhD, 1940. As a Department of State policy planner, Rostow was a member of President Kennedy's Ex-Comm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) during the October, 1962 Cuban missile crisis. As national security advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow was a prime advocate and policy formulator of United States military action in Vietnam. After the election of Richard Nixon as President in 1968, Rostow along with wife Elspeth (1917-2007) were appointed to the University of Texas at Austin, where Walt Rostow was a professor of economics from 1969 to 2003.
Presidential advisor to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Walt Whitman Rostow played a pivotal role in the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Fall of 1962 as well as the conduct of the Vietnam War in the 1960's.
Rostow was commissioned as a Major in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the precursor of the CIA.
Professor of Economic History at Oxford, MIT, and Columbia. BA, Yale; PhD, 1940. As a Department of State policy planner, Rostow was a member of President Kennedy's Ex-Comm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) during the October, 1962 Cuban missile crisis. As national security advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow was a prime advocate and policy formulator of United States military action in Vietnam. After the election of Richard Nixon as President in 1968, Rostow along with wife Elspeth (1917-2007) were appointed to the University of Texas at Austin, where Walt Rostow was a professor of economics from 1969 to 2003.
Rostow was commissioned as a Major in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the precursor of the CIA.
Professor of Economic History at Oxford, MIT, and Columbia. BA, Yale; PhD, 1940. As a Department of State policy planner, Rostow was a member of President Kennedy's Ex-Comm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) during the October, 1962 Cuban missile crisis. As national security advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rostow was a prime advocate and policy formulator of United States military action in Vietnam. After the election of Richard Nixon as President in 1968, Rostow along with wife Elspeth (1917-2007) were appointed to the University of Texas at Austin, where Walt Rostow was a professor of economics from 1969 to 2003.
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WALT WHITMAN
OCT. 7, 1916 FEB. 13, 2003
