How does policy get translated into action? How do the different advisors of a

decision-maker (say, the President of the United States) maneuver to get their ideas accepted? Mr. Rostow was writing a series of books, each examining a case in point; one of his case studies is the topic of this absorbing hour--President Eisenhower's dramatic "Open Skies" proposal for arms-control verification, launched at the first Geneva summit conference in 1955. WWR: "So at the moment of the summit your duty was not to say, I'm sure Khrushchev will buy this.' All the objective argument was that he would not. But you should make it in total good faith, and I think Eisenhower did make it in good faith.... If you are playing with issues this big, if you could get a breakthrough, it would mean so much to everyone, your own country and to the human race. You don't simply

say, 'My analysis of those folks is that they are going to say no.' You keep your powder dry, but you go out and make a fair offer."