Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK CITY, Jan. 29 -- The student leaders who will meet with Secretary of State Dean Rusk Tuesday have written two more letters -- one to Rusk and another to President Johnson -- sharpening their questions about the Administration policy in Vietnam...
...Rusk, which will arrive at the State Department barely 24 hours before their meeting, defines more clearly the doubts which the student leaders discussed in their first letter to Johnson, Dec. 30. In that letter, the student-body presidents and newspaper editors reported that increasing numbers of students across the country doubted that U.S. interest in Vietnam were sufficiently vital to justify our growing commitment there...
...Gardner was president of Carnegie, living in a modest home in Scarsdale, N.Y., just four doors down from another philanthropoid-Dean Rusk, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Gardner usually came home with a fat briefcase, went to work soon after dinner. Checka recalls that "when we were children, we always went to sleep to the sound of a typewriter." Gardner made a point of placing his desk "right in the traffic pattern for everything in the house" so as not to miss anything...
Often the praise becomes extravagant. "The 18th century produced a lot of men who had a truly universal approach-Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, for instance, and that's what I see in John Gardner," says Old Neighbor Dean Rusk. "The future is his business. His object is to anticipate the problems of tomorrow and help people to become prepared...
...homes that cannot start the day without Today (7-9 a.m. local time, Monday through Friday). The President watches the program from his bed, turning the volume up during the Washington sequences. Across town, 70% of the Congress and most Cabinet members are regular viewers. Secretary of State Rusk has gone so far as to position his bedroom TV so that he can see Today in his shaving mirror. Beyond the Potomac, Atlanta Constitution Publisher and Syndicated Columnist Ralph McGill watches "with great frequency." TV Chef Julia Child does her morning calisthenics by it. On the West Coast, Danny Kaye...