Eugene V. Rostow

Eugene Victor Debs Rostow was an American legal scholar and civil servant. He was appointed dean of Yale Law School and served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. During the 1970s, Rostow was a leader of the movement against détente with the Soviet Union, and in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed him director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).