Word: rusk
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Outside foreign offices, Dean Rusk is largely an unknown quantity himself. He has met nearly every Foreign Minister on earth. After the U.N. convened in September, he chatted privately with some 70 of them in a hectic nine-day stretch, kept so tight a schedule that one U.S. official compared his outer office to "a dentist's waiting room." Despite his distaste for "personal" diplomacy, he has logged nearly 100,000 miles a year in trips abroad...
...Rusk's concept of his job has kept him out of the headlines. He wholeheartedly agrees with John Marshall, the great 19th century Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, that "the President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations." As he sees it, his job is to act as adviser, briefing officer and administrator for the President, not as an initiator of policy in the tradition of John Foster Dulles or Dean Acheson. "It is possible," he once said, "for the President to delegate too much power to his Secretary of State." Under Kennedy, there...
...nine-hour conference Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor had flown in from Washington; from Saigon came Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and General Paul Harkins. The Honolulu meeting exuded almost relentless optimism about the war, and the policymakers clung bravely to the line that things should be sufficiently in hand by 1965 to permit complete withdrawal of the 16,500 American troops...
President Johnson will begin his first full day as the nation's 36th Chief Executive when he talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at 9:30 a.m. today. Rusk and four other cabinet members had been enroute to Japan for an important trade conference when they received word of President Kennedy's death. They returned immediately to Washington and landed at about midnight...
Zemel vs. Rusk will also test the alleged "state of emergency" that is now in force. In 1950, President Truman declared a state of emergency in connection with the Korean War. In 1953, he reiterated the stand. Since then ten years have passed without renewal or recall of the executive order. Zemel will contend that if U.S. citizens are subjected to such conditions of extreme duress, the government certainly owes them detailed and up-to-date explanations of its policy...