Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There has been a lot of controversy as to whether napalm victims are to be found in Vietnam. As I recall, Dr. Howard Rusk, the New York Times medical correspondent found only six or seven in the whole of Vietnam. I often wonder, having visited the hospital at Quang Ngai, just where he had his eyes as he walked through this hospital. There were over seventy people in the burn ward at Quang Ngai when we visited there. Some forty of them had burns traceable to napalm...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk bluntly set the record straight: "At no time has Hanoi indicated publicly or privately that it will refrain from taking military advantage of any cessation of the bombing. Nor has it shown any interest in preliminary negotiations to arrange a general cease-fire." Lyndon Johnson added at an impromptu press conference at the White House that Hanoi is no more ready "to negotiate today than it was a year ago, two years ago or three years ago," and the Communists' attacks throughout South Viet Nam proved...
...warned, during a CBS television interview, that nuclear escalation in Viet Nam would be "sheer lunacy." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai promised North Viet Nam nuclear weapons if the U.S. uses them. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a formal query to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking if there was any truth to the nuke talk...
...William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...
...George Christian, commenting on Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy's claim that demands had already been made for the deployment of nukes, declared that such speculation "is false and also unfair to the armed forces. I might add that irresponsible discussion and speculation is a disservice to the country." Rusk later repeated Christian's ill-considered insinuation that such inquiries were unpatriotic...