Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgians are doubly nauseated and ashamed that Rusk is a native of this state...
...When I saw that your article on the Rusk-Smith wedding was under "Races," I was annoyed. But after reading the article, I wish to thank you for an unbiased report. I only hope that the day will soon come when a Negro can come into the limelight without anyone's feeling the need to point out his or her race...
Secretary-General U Thant made no secret of his feeling that the U.S. was being unreasonable. To which Secretary of State Dean Rusk-as near to exasperation as he ever gets-retorted: "If we were to say that we would negotiate only if all of the violence in South Viet Nam were stopped while we continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition...
...Rusk won some sympathy for his plight from Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato. During an Asian tour designed to bring his country a little farther out of the diplomatic tortoise shell into which it retreated after World War II, Sato declared: "If there is any suspension of the bombing, there should be a firm assurance that this would lead to an eventual settlement." In this, he echoed the privately held, if rarely voiced view held by practically every Asian leader...
...Inchon-style landing north of the 17th parallel, silence the guns that are raking Con Thien and Gio Linh, and pull out again. And, as the Joint Chiefs unanimously recommend, bombers could mine Haiphong harbor-a proposal that has consistently been rejected by Johnson, Mc-Namara and Dean Rusk. Were Haiphong choked off, argues Joint Chief Chairman General Earle Wheeler, most of the $1-billion-a-year flow of arms from Russia would dry up and the war would end in a "relatively" short time...