Word: rusk
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...most apparent difference between the two was in their attitudes toward two major Administration officials: FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, who was one of the first officials to be reconfirmed in office by John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a J.F.K. appointee. Bobby noted that he has disagreed with Rusk for some time, but understandably refused to say that he would fire him. McCarthy was somewhat less tender. Stating the obvious, he said that he would sack any Cabinet member with whose policies or performance he disagreed; he left no doubt that he would retire both Rusk...
Still Fragile. Earlier Washington Post Reporter Chalmers Roberts reported from the Capital that "the U.S. is now prepared to accept a role for the Communists in the political life of South Viet Nam," no matter how the incumbent government feels about it. Secretary of State Dean Rusk immediately denied that the U.S. intended to "impose" a Communist regime on the South. The effect of the story, added the Secretary, would almost surely be to persuade the Communists that "their propaganda can divide the U.S. and its allies...
...example, wants an international control mechanism to be established to ensure credible verification of any violations if Hanoi agrees to reduce or halt its infiltration in exchange for a bombing halt. In any case, Harriman has reviewed every imaginable contingency with President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "He has a forest of position papers in his bags on everything," said a U.S. official. "But these are not instructions as such. If I know Ave, he's likely to ignore them as often as he heeds them...
...over that initial issue, for Johnson is determined not to end the air raids without some concession, even a modest one, from Hanoi. And the U.S. can argue that Hanoi already enjoys by far the better of the bargain. While 79% of the North is now free of bombing, Rusk noted last week, "not one square mile in South Viet Nam has any assurance of immunity from attacks by the Viet Cong...
...solemn cartoons. Ho Chi Minh, holding the lifeless body of a Vietnamese amid the smoke of war, proclaims: "They won't get us to the conference table . . . will they?" A more recent cartoon of Oliphant's on the war is much more in character. L.B.J. and Dean Rusk sit in diver's suits at a table resting on the ocean floor. Ho Chi Minh, similarly accoutered, is drifting toward them. Asks the President: "How did you get him to agree to this...