Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Transmission of Advice: The National Security Council directs its executive secretary to transmit this memorandum of advice to the director of the Selective Service System, with the concurrence of each of the undersigned. February 15, 1968.--Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara; Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, Daniel Price; Secretary of the Treasury, Henry H. Fowler; Director of the U.S. Information Agency, Leonard Marks...
...Dean Rusk's precious statement that North Korea should "cool it" must have really scared Kim II Sung out of his wits. I'll bet he has sleepless nights and that "blah" feeling...
...Perturbable Rusk. Throughout his Indian tour?and ever since?Galbraith also waged a hot war with the State Department. Communications from Washington took too long to arrive, he complained, and communicated nothing when they did get there. Occasionally, he set U.S. policy by himself. Entirely on his own, for instance, he announced that the U.S. recognized India's disputed northern borders. Washington gulped, but went along. Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views...
...died and the three who were injured during Pueblo's seizure.* As U.S. officials see it, Pyongyang may keep the U.S. dangling for a while, then demand an admission that Pueblo had violated its territorial waers, and an apology. Appearing on Meet the Press, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara conceded that although Pueblo was under strict orders to remain outside the twelve-mile limit, there was no way for Washington to be completely certain the order was followed during an eight-day period of radio silence maintained by the stubby vessel. Said Rusk...
Holding Hands. But there was no retreat from the basic U.S. contention that Pueblo was in international waters when she was first accosted and when she was captured nearly 2½ hours later, and that North Korea, consequently, was guilty of having broken international law. In addition, Rusk pointed out that in 1965 and 1966 three Soviet spy ships had violated the U.S. three-mile limit-twice off Puerto Rico, once off San Pedro, Calif. "We didn't seize those vessels," said Rusk. "We simply required them to depart." As legal support for this "civilized practice among nations...