Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of Soviet aggression in Western Europe receded, the alliance became a political assembly of independent-minded states rather than a military coalition huddling under the exclusive U.S. nuclear umbrella. What NATO has yet to prove is that it can rise to broader, subtler challenges. As Dean Rusk put it: "NATO must adapt itself to a situation in which the Communist threat takes more diversified and sophisticated forms, to a situation in which the cohesive element in this alliance must depend upon something more than an imminent military threat...
Lodge had long since put in for an overseas post under the Kennedy Administration. In the spring of 1961, he volunteered his services to Secretary of State Dean Rusk "in any meaningful capacity." Nothing came of it for two years, until Lodge met Kennedy at a dinner honoring Lauris Norstad, retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. The two got to talking, and Kennedy was impressed by Lodge's continuing desire to work in the national interest. Two weeks later the President sent his military aide, Major General Ted Clifton, to ask Lodge if he wanted to return to public...
After soliciting support from Faculty members later this week, Hillel will send the petition to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, President Johnson, and Secretary of State Rusk...
Determined Demonstration. As an additional demonstration of U.S. resolve, Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew from Manila to Saigon. Amid reports that the Viet Cong might try to assassinate him, he was shepherded around Saigon under strict security measures: four Jeeploads of bodyguards, two armed helicopters. But Rusk ventured out into the countryside, flew to Danhim, 150 miles north of the capital, to inspect a new hydroelectric plant. Everywhere Rusk repeated his theme: that the U.S. disavows neutralism...
Delegates to the Washington convention believe that the Soviet party bosses suspect Jews of having divided loyalties, and want to assimilate them forcibly into the mainstream of Russian life. At the end of their meeting, the Jewish leaders talked with President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, urged them to use their "good offices" so the Soviet government would be aware of U.S. concern for Russian Jews...