Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction." Taking extraordinary precautions to preserve secrecy in his first talk with Thieu, he not only banished his advisers, but also did without the customary interpreter-Thieu has a good command of English. After 50 minutes, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was called in for a ten-minute briefing on the Paris talks...
...Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reflecting on the U.S.'s determined response in 1961 to Khrushchev's threats to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, cautioned his aides against any hasty action. Said Rusk: "We mobilized troops, we spent $6 billion, and when we looked around, nobody was there...
...candidates to go on the road after the assassination, Rockefeller was, all at once, nearly everywhere. He gave a commencement address at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Governor Raymond Shafer. At the White House, he spent two hours discussing national security problems with President Johnson, Dean Rusk and others...
Later, at a ceremony in the White House at which Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin exchanged papers ratifying the U.S.-Russian consular agreement, Johnson expressed hope that nothing will "prevent us from exploring every avenue to a more peaceful relationship and a more cooperative world." The new accord calls for separate negotiations on the opening of consular offices outside Moscow and Washington and constitutes the first bilateral agreement between the two nations since the U.S. granted diplomatic recognition to Russia...
Well, not quite. Would you believe Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary...