Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within minutes of their emergence from the developing fluids. "Hell," he says, "F.D.R. would have waited a week" for similar results. That speed, of course, makes it all the more tempting for the President and his key advisers, most notably Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, to run the war at every level, down to platoon and squad actions...
...they will have to assume the obligations that Britain is abandoning. President Johnson seems to believe that the British can be dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from the pullout...
...problems brought on by the current catastrophe." Hussein declares that he will not allow Jordan to slip into the Soviet orbit, is convinced that Jordan's future is still best served by friendship with the West. He has been encouraged by hints from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that the U.S. might resume military aid to his country...
...author argues that more assertiveness and authority are needed in the State Department. Dean Rusk takes his lumps as a "superb counselor [who] could not bring himself to be an advocate." Hilsman's criticism is less than convincing, since it is based on his personal conviction that the Secretary of State should be a public fighter for policies of his own making, rather than merely the principal foreign policy adviser to the President-and claims that Kennedy wanted Rusk to function that way. In fact, most strong U.S. Presidents have always, and with good reason, preferred the Rusk...
...talked to a number of people in the course of his search for the truth of the matter. It certainly looks as if he consulted the British ambassador, and possibly the Canadian and the French (though the phrase "Western embassies" may, like the use of "U.S. officials" for Dean Rusk, represent an attempt to obscure a single source by multiplication.) Reston obviously talked also to high American officials; probably, I think, to the President himself, to judge from Reston's use of the phrase "highest officials here' and the surefooted way he says, "at this point, it is understood, President...