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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 security advisor to president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969.
Rostow's model is descendent from the liberal school of economics, emphasizing the efficacy of modern concepts of free trade and the ideas of Adam Smith.It also denies Friedrich List’s argument that countries reliant on exporting raw materials may get “locked in”, and be unable to diversify, in that Rostow's model states that countries may need to depend on a few raw material exports to ...
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 was written by General Maxwell Taylor , military representative to President John F. Kennedy , and Deputy National Security Advisor W.W. Rostow .
Walt Rostow: 1961 John F. Kennedy: 2 Carl Kaysen: 1961–1963 3 Robert Komer: 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson: 4 Francis M. Bator: 1965–1967 [4] 5 Richard V. Allen: 1969 Richard Nixon: 6 Alexander Haig: 1970–1973 7 Brent Scowcroft: 1973–1975 Gerald Ford: 8 William G. Hyland: 1975–1977 9 David L. Aaron: 1977–1981 Jimmy Carter: 10 James W. Nance ...
Rostow was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, and raised in Irvington, New Jersey, and New Haven, Connecticut.His parents were active socialists and their three sons, Eugene, Ralph, and Walt, were named after Eugene V. Debs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman.
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was an American academic who served as the U.S. National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966.
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Walt Rostow: Democrat NSC: 1966-1969 L. Johnson: Economics: Yale University: 1940 Henry Kissinger: Republican NSC/State: 1969–1975, 1973–1977 Nixon/Ford: Political Science: Harvard University: 1954 George Shultz: Republican Labor/OMB/Treasury/State: 1969–1970, 1970–1972, 1972–1974, 1982–1989 Nixon/Reagan: Economics: Massachusetts ...