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.
Era 1960, él era asesor del candidato  a la presidencia John F. Kennedy, que se postulaba para las elecciones con una promesa de crecimiento del 5 %, así que el trabajo de Rostow  era mantener ese avión volando, no preguntar si, cómo o cuándo se le permitiría aterrizar.