"In recent times, the Bush administration has taken up Rostow's internationalist, crusading mantle and has run with it to potent effect. Wolfowitz and other neoconservatives have been identifiably Rostovian with respect to their reading of international relations: that it is the responsibility of the United States, as the world's most powerful nation, to democratize and do 'good'--at the point of a bayonet, if necessary."
In the Los Angeles Times, David Milne recalls John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's advisor Walt Rostow.
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