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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since renamed Flowery Mound). He worked his way through the University of Oklahoma, made the wrestling team, the debating team and produced a brilliant scholastic record in government, his major field. He won a Rhodes scholarship in 1931, took two law degrees at Oxford, where Secretary of State Dean Rusk was one of his classmates. Albert worked as a lawyer for several oil firms until 1940, briefly set up a private practice in McAlester, Okla., his home town. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army. Assigned briefly to Washington, he met and married a Pentagon clerk named Mary Harmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Adequate Number of Democrats | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Contrary to public-opinion polls, which have suggested apathy and ignorance about Viet Nam, Congressman after Congressman returned to Washington after the Christmas holidays convinced that the voters are profoundly concerned. When Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week briefed the House Foreign Affairs Committee, one member interrupted him: "You'd damn well better find a solution to this in the next two years, because that is about all the time the American public is going to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Viet Nam Debate | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Such a Mess. But events in Viet Nam may not give the U.S. that much time. Said Illinois Democrat Barratt O'Hara of Rusk's remarks: "I have never known him to speak with more gravity." Said Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays: "You hardly know where to start, it's such a mess. We don't want to go in full force, like the French. They failed. But a pull-out would be even worse. We need two things right now-some patience and a little bit of good news from out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Viet Nam Debate | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Foreign Challenge. While the state of Lyndon thus seemed to be as sound as the State of the Union, the same could not be said for the shape of U.S. foreign relations. One of the President's visitors at the ranch was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who flew down to brief him on the latest turns in the perennial Viet Nam crisis. One prominent White House wit held that the mess in Viet Nam was no worse than the mess inside the Republican Party, but the joke really wasn't very funny. The fact is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Union & the World | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...separate talks with Dean Rusk, De Gaulle again explained his vision of a United States of Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, with Western Europe serving as a magnet to the rest of the now largely Communist continent. If Western Europe is too closely linked to the U.S. and locked in a tight Atlantic world, argued De Gaulle, it would be unable to serve this centripetal function, since countries such as Rumania, already showing signs of loosening their ties to Moscow, are simply not part of the Atlantic world. It was perhaps the most cogent argument yet offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Off Collision Course | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

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