If only this man were here now
Eugene Rostow used to quip that despite his 10 years in the Yale administration, he still believed in reason. He was analytical, judicious, and one of our greatest bipartisan patriots. Rostow died this past Thanksgiving, at age 89.
Born in Brooklyn in 1913, Eugene Victor Rostow -- so named after Eugene Victor Debs, the American Socialist leader --graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale at age 19 and went on to King's College, Cambridge, and the Yale Law School. Rostow was a brilliant legal scholar as well as a moral and courageous man; he condemned the wartime internment of...
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