Item FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/22 - Transcript of interview, 1997, with Walt Rostow, former Special Assistant to the US President

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FIFTY YEARS WAR 8/22

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Transcript of interview, 1997, with Walt Rostow, former Special Assistant to the US President

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  • 1997 Apr 18 (Creation)

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40pp

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Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Walt Whitman Rostow, Special assistant to the US President, 1966-1969, describing the response of the US to intelligence concerning possible outbreak of hostilities in eh Middle east, including Soviet reports of Israeli troop movements on the Syrian border, 13 May 1967; visit of Abba Solomon Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister 1966-1974 to Washington, and meeting with Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President 1963-1969, and government officials, 26 May 1967, visit of Maj-Gen Meir Amit, Head of Israeli Military Intelligence (1967); US communications with the Soviet Union, first use of the 'hotline', and negotiation of the ceasefire, and Johnson's meeting with Alexey Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, USSR 1964-1980, at Glassboro, New Jersey, (Jun 1967). 40pp

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