Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset by Hanoi's offer. He said he thought Trinh's speech represented a "new formulation," but dumped his usual dose of verbal sewage water on hopes for peace...
...pretty clear--from Rusk's puzzlement in front of the press--that Trinh's speech came as a shock to official Washington. American officials had come in the last month or so of 1967 to believe that the best chances of peace lay in the opening of talks between the Saigon government and the Vietcong. As President Johnson hinted on TV just before Christmas, the war was being fought over South Vietnam and the opposing internal forces were in the best position...
Mongolian Message. Washington's reaction to the words from Hanoi and Pnompenh was serious and empirical. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, asked if Hanoi's change in tense represented a bid to talk, replied: "I don't know yet. But I wouldn't want to characterize this statement today as either a peace feeler or as purely a propaganda move. Let's find out what this statement means as well as what it says...
...another show of pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause, most notably Bobby Kennedy. To prove that it really wants peace, McCarthy said, the Administration should replace Secretary of State Dean Rusk. His swipe at Kennedy was more subtle and yet more cutting: "There seems to be a disposition to wait for a kind of latter-day salvation-like four years from...
Having decided to switch from mild restraints to harsh controls, Johnson cloaked his planning in warlike secrecy. While the President was in Australia, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and White House Aide Walt Rostow stitched to gether a list of recommendations...