Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, you read in the Saturday paper a broad discussion of American foreign policy that is attributed solely to "U.S. officials," you can be pretty sure the U.S. officials are--is--none other than the Secretary of State, for most Friday afternoons Dean Rusk meets for drinks and talk with 20 or 30 American, British and French reporters who cover the State Department...
This was an accepted view at the time. None thought Mr. Rusk's formulation other than commonplace. He and others repeated the thesis--the doctrine of a centrally controlled and disciplined power guided from Moscow -- dozens of times. Implicit therein was a pattern of policy and of action. This had immediate relevance to Vietnam...
...without food. Johnson prevailed, and lunch was served on a cloth-covered raw-wood table hastily hammered together by the White House kitchen staff, which had come up from Washington along with the food. During the meal, which was attended by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other top aides, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara spoke about the advantages of a mutual freeze on production of anti-ballistic missile systems. Gromyko replied with the standard answer: the Soviets need an ABM network for protection against U.S. missiles...
...part, the Johnson Administration opposed the U.N. session from the outset, correctly anticipating that it would accomplish nothing and that the Communists intended it to be a propaganda spectacular. Once confronted with the inevitability of the session, the U.S. did use the occasion for extensive diplomatic lobbying by Secretary Rusk. He saw many of the foreign officials privately, and even conferred secretly one night with United Arab Republic Deputy Premier Mahmoud Fawzy...
...Moscow line, called for direct "negotiations and agreements" between Israel and the Arabs. He promised his government's help in reaching a settlement based on peaceful coexistence. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg spoke up for Israel on the floor of the Assembly, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk worked energetically in a series of private sessions with delegates from Latin America and 13 French-speaking African nations...