The year was 1960, he was an advisor to the presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, who was running for election on the promise of five-percent growth, so Rostow's job was to keep that plane flying, not to ask if, how, or when it could ever be allowed to land.
Året var 1960, han var rådgivare till  presidentkandidaten John F. Kennedy, som lovade en femprocentig tillväxtökning, så Rostows jobb var att hålla flygplanet i luften, inte att fråga hur, eller när, planet tilläts landa.