Word: rusk
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...these changes added some flame to the smoldering speculation around Washington that the Johnson Administration is in for a wholesale reshuffling. Involved at the top of most rumors is Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who is said to be wearying of his job and to be out of favor with President Johnson. Leading the rumor list of possible successors: White House Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy; Defense Secretary McNamara, who once made the observation that no man ought to stay more than five years on the same job and who, by that standard, has about served his time...
...foreign-policy field. When Lyndon Johnson returned from Dallas on Nov. 22, he invited three men from the crowd that met him at Andrews Air Force Base to join him in the helicopter flight to the south lawn of the White House-McNamara, Under Secretary of State George Ball (Rusk was out of the country) and Bundy...
...branch for anything at home or abroad just now," said Vice President Hubert Humphrey. "Now is the time we all go to commencements." Humphrey, who spoke at six, was considerably busier than President Johnson, who spoke at four, notably about peace. At George Washington University, Secretary of State Dean Rusk defended the Administration's policy in Viet Nam. At West Point, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, declared that the global mess was "not hopeless," while at Long Island University, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall sounded pretty hopeless about the urban mess. At the University of Iowa, Secretary...
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Dean Rusk, LL.D., Secretary of State. He takes a worthy place in that great succession of eminent Americans which began with Thomas Jefferson...
Next day in Washington, Erhard met with Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Under Secretary George Ball, later spent 90 minutes in a "working session" with the President. During their talk, which Erhard described as "filled with substance," the two leaders reaffirmed some old pledges of mutual support. They agreed to work for "further European economic integration" and "increasingly closer economic ties between Europe and America and the rest of the world"-a point that was not likely to please French President Charles de Gaulle. Beyond that, Erhard asked for-and got-reiteration...