National Security Files. ca. 1966 - 1/20/1969. Files of Walt W. Rostow

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National Security Files. ca. 1966 - 1/20/1969. Files of Walt W. Rostow

1966-1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12021213

The Walt W. Rostow Files contain memorandums, agendas, notes, speech drafts, maps, reports, and other material that reflects Rostow's role as National Security Advisor from 1966 to January 1969 during the Johnson presidency. Some of the topics contained in this series include the capture of the USS Pueblo by North Korea in 1968; U.S. aid to various foreign countries including food aid, military aid, agricultural aid, and educational aid; nuclear power including non-military atomic energy, nuclear weapons, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty; the Outer Space Treaty of 1967; U.S. operations and policy regarding Vietnam; U.S. peace initiatives in Vietnam including Marigold, Daisy, Pennsylvania, and the Paris Peace negotiations; the U.S. budget; the international economy; the 1967 Cyprus Crisis; the 1967 Glassboro Summit and correspondence with Kosygin; foreign trips by the President as well as U.S. advisors and dignitaries; the defection of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, to the United States; meetings with the President; Radio Free Europe; and the Anna Chennault affair. Some of the numerous geographic regions represented in the material include India, Vietnam, Laos, Cam Ranh Bay, the Soviet Union, and Korea. People and organizations reflected in the material include the Agency for International Development (AID), the National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Robert McNamara. In addition, the series contains correspondence with or material about Joseph Alsop, Abe Fortas, J. W. Fulbright, Kenneth Galbraith, Ho Chi Minh, Senator Henry Jackson, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Komer, Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator Mike Mansfield, President Ferdinand Marcos, Robert Murphy, Richard Nixon, Lawrence O'Brien, Nelson Rockefeller, Sargent Shriver, and William Westmoreland.

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