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Article: Walt Rostow.(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2003
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Walt Rostow, an adviser in the Vietnam war, died on February 13th, aged 86
EARLY one morning in 1958 Walt Rostow arrived at John Kennedy's Washington home in Georgetown. He had been invited for breakfast. In Kennedy's cultivation of people who might be useful to him in his campaign to become president, an invitation to breakfast was no more than a courteous overture. It did not carry the weight of a lunch or dinner, but was possibly more important than a drink at a bar or an invitation to a "political tea", a ceremony usually hosted by Kennedy's wife Jacqueline. In the event the two men got on well. Both were in the early 40s, close to middle-age by ordinary ...