Walt Whitman Rostow.

Profiles Walt Whitman Rostow, professor and presidential adviser to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on the Vietnam War. Issues supported by Rostow; Views on communism and its role in delaying world peace and modernization; Role of Rostow in the development of the U.S. policy on Vietnam; Names given to Rostow by his critics; Claim of Rostow that he is prone to making generalizations; Opinion on war; Sentiments on regionalism among backward countries; Thoughts on the political situation in Asia.