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Article: WALT ROSTOW, ADVISER TO PRESIDENTS, DIES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 15, 2003
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Byline: P-I news services
TEXAS -- Walt Rostow, an economic historian who became one of the principal architects and passionate defenders of the Vietnam War as an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died Thursday at a hospital in Austin where he lived.
He was 86.
The son of a socialist immigrant who named him for the poet Walt Whitman, Rostow graduated from Yale at 19, won a Rhodes scholarship, served as a major in the Army's covert Office of Strategic Services in World War II, then pursued a career as a scholar of economic modernization and an adviser to politicians.
But it was his relentless support of U.S. military ...