The declined survey made a Rhodes Scholar a byword for terrible advice
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The declined survey made a Rhodes Scholar a byword for terrible advice
This episode explores the life of Walt Whitman Whitman, a formidable intellect who influenced US foreign policy during the Cold War. It delves into his background, his rise to prominence, and the origins of his unshakeable convictions.
Person: Walt Whitman Whitman
Born: October 7, 1916
Education: Yale University, Balliol College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
Role: National Security Advisor (under Lyndon Johnson)
Event: Vietnam War escalation
- Walt Whitman's father, Victor Rostowsky, instilled in his children a template for identifying enemies and holding the line, shaped by his experiences fleeing Tsarist Russia.
- Whitman entered Yale at fifteen and graduated at nineteen, later winning a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford.
- During World War II, Whitman worked for the Office of Strategic Services, identifying German industrial targets for bombing.
- He became convinced that oil was Germany's fatal vulnerability and proposed the "Oil Plan" to target Romanian oil fields and synthetic oil plants.
- After the war, Whitman declined an invitation to participate in the Strategic Services Survey, which aimed to assess the effectiveness of strategic bombing.
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