Word: rusk
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Thus, in a characteristic charade aimed at dramatizing the news he had planned to disclose all along, Johnson announced the appointment of Attorney General Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 44, to succeed George W. Ball, 56, who had long been impatient to resign as Dean Rusk's No. 2 man and resume private law practice. Beaming at the success of his ploy, the President went on to inform startled newsmen that he had filled two other major vacancies in the State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former...
...Fudge Factory." The importance of finding a successor to Ball was heightened by the possibility that Secretary of State Rusk, suffering from fatigue and financial strain, may in time decide to step down. Johnson's first choice for Ball's job, and a possible successor to Rusk, was Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, a former aide of Harry Truman. The bait was rejected by Clifford and other prospects. So L.B.J. decided to worry about Rusk's successor later, settled on the Attorney General...
...Rusk's arguments, of course, were somewhat more sophisticated than those of John Foster Dulles, who opened each year's anti-admission campaign with a lecture on the unsavory credentials of the few willful men in Peking tyrannizing a nation of millions. Rusk pointed out that the Communist Chinese have decided to act as "a major obstacle" to a settlement of the war in Vietnam, and that it was bad psychology to reward them with a seat in the Assembly...
...arguments on Vietnam, Rusk emphasized the necessity for honoring commitments. He has promised the nationalists that the U.S. will keep the communists out. And he refuses to break that commitment until the world leaves him no other choice. Disagreeing with most China experts, he saw little point in welcoming a nation that has refused the offered terms. The State Department prefrs not to take the edge off the fear and distrust of China stirred up in the rest of the world by the recent chaos and defiant oratory on the mainland...
...present position would not entirely dispel these beliefs, but some China experts argue that a few more active gestures toward the communists may yet help the moderates who are getting the worst of it in China's current upheaval. And the modification would certainly be consistent with Secretary Rusk's hope that the West will "break through the walls of isolation that Peking has built around itself." It is ridiculous, moreover, to connect the Vietnam War with granting the Red Chinese admission to the U.N., an organization that could play a major part in engineering a solution...