Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interdict & Inhibit. Rusk went on to say, "Were the insurgency in South Viet Nam truly indigenous and self-sustained, international law would not be involved. But the fact is that it receives vital external support-in organization and direction, in training, in men, in weapons and other supplies...
...Dean Rusk's muscular attack on the opponents of escalation might have astonished those who have always thought of him as a flabby sort, but it came as no surprise at all to Lyndon Johnson...
...past year, Rusk has emerged as one of the three men who serve as the President's most trusted advisers in national security matters-particularly Viet Nam. The others: Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy...
...began taking shape about a year ago. Irritated over a steady stream of news leaks from National Security Council meetings, the President asked an aide: "Do we have to have all of these people?" He began scratching names off the list, finally winnowed it down to Bundy, McNamara and Rusk. He still meets regularly with the NSC, but when he really wants to speak his mind-or hear others speak theirs-he summons the Big Three...
Softer Line. One reason for the President's heavy reliance on the Big Three is that he can rarely depend on top congressional Democrats for the kind of support on Viet Nam that Bundy, McNamara and Rusk give him. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for example, treads a far softer line, and only last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright was calling for a halt to U.S. air strikes. It was Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, in fact, who took to the Senate floor to defend Johnson's policy against Fulbright by declaring...