Word: rusk
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...nearly to the extent that it did. At least 20 officials, including Under Secretary George Ball, took part in its preparation, and at the White House it was approved by McGeorge Bundy, the President's special assistant for national security affairs. Once Secretary of State Dean Rusk (who had not seen it originally) had apologized for the tone-although not the substance-of the U.S. statement, the White House passed word that the subject of Canada was not to be mentioned again until after April 8, election...
...know the feeling you get when you're on top of a mountain"), hopeful that the storm would soon blow over. Instead, it grew worse. President Kennedy agreed to meet Macmillan at Nassau. Kennedy ordered McNamara back from vacation to attend the sessions, which Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...President embodied his request for the school in a three-part package he sent to Congress last Monday. Besides the draft legislation, he enclosed a memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Rusk setting forth the objects of the academy and letters to Congressional leaders...
Wily & Wobbly. The State Department said that last week's statement was merely to clear up misleading impressions. Secretary Rusk told a press conference that he was sorry "if any words of ours have been so phrased as to give offense." Yet if he had wished to make things hot for Canada's Conservative Prime Minister, he could hardly have done better. The release contradicted Diefenbaker on the Nassau agreements, which raised "no question of the appropriateness of nuclear weapons for Canadian forces...
...spokesman issued a statement repeating the position that the Reds had "broken up" their-missile bases and that two new shipments showed "no evidence of offensive weapons." The Defense Department sharply denied Thurmond's report of 30,000 to 40,000 troops. Even so, Secretary of State Dean Rusk conceded that "there is a significant Soviet military presence in Cuba...