Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara's recommendation, and orders crackled to Seventh Fleet head quarters in Hawaii. The marines' role, said the Pentagon, was to be strictly defensive. But nobody doubted for a minute that sooner or later they would clash with the Viet Cong. And, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk crisply informed a television audience, "if they are shot at, they will shoot back...
Martin put his finger on the main dilemma-how many fingers, and whose, should be on the West's nuclear triggers? He urged "a greater sharing in nuclear strategy without further proliferation of control." But U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave not the slightest hint that Washington is yet prepared to give up final say-so over its nuclear powerhouse. Instead, Rusk referred once more to U.S. suggestions for a multilateral nuclear fleet-over which Washington would have ultimate control...
Salt, Pepper & Garlic. To demands that he make a public statement "clarifying" U.S. policy toward Viet Nam, the President had Secretary of State Dean Rusk hold a news briefing to reiterate what Johnson himself had explained many times before. The U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, said Rusk, "is an obligation under the 1954 agreements, under the 1962 accords on Laos, and under general international law." It was underwritten last year by a joint resolution of Congress, passed by a 502-2 vote (the holdouts: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse and Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening) authorizing...
...said Rusk, is not blindly opposed to negotiating about Viet Nam. But it will enter into negotiations only on the prospect that North Viet Nam will agree, in an enforceable pact, to withdraw its own aid to the Viet Cong Communists in return for U.S. withdrawal. "Concentrate," said Rusk, "on the meat of the matter. The meat of the matter is that Hanoi is sending these people and these arms into South Viet Nam contrary to every agreement and contrary to international law. Now if that problem is grappled with, then we can get into details. We can consider whether...
...State for Economic Affairs, replacing New York's former Governor Averell Harriman, 73, whose title was Under Secretary for Political Affairs. The titles are interchangeable, and it is up to the President to decide what he wants to call his No. 3 State Department man, behind Secretary Dean Rusk and Deputy Secretary George Ball...