Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither side wore holes in its trou sers. Neither Rusk nor his adversaries, who now dominate the 19-man committee, had new ideas to offer. The handful of members who still support the Administration could do little more than deal in cliches-including the threat of "monolithic" Communism as cold as the marble that lines the hearing chamber...
...Administration might order a major increase in U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam without any consultations with Congress. "Do I understand you to be saying," Fulbright asked, "that you have no intention to consult with this committee and Congress, that you are going to do as you please?" Rusk said that the Administration would con sult with "appropriate" members of Congress about any important decisions concerning...
Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...
...cool, controlled advocate during more than ten hours of grilling, Rusk assured the committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
Confrontation in Vienna. Aside from demonstrating just how far disaffection in the Senate has spread, the session did serve another purpose. It laid out, occasionally with eloquence, the basic positions of the Administration and its less extreme critics. Rusk recalled the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in Vienna: "In effect, Chairman Khrushchev said to this young President of ours, 'Take your troops out of Berlin or there will be war.' It was necessary for this young President to say, Then Mr. Chairman, there will be war.' " Had the Russian leader believed that Kennedy lacked support at home, Rusk said...