Word: rusk
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When Arthur Schlesinger Jr. let loose his thunderbolt against Dean Rusk last Sunday, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at last found its target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary...
Predictably, the festering sore of U.S. policy in Vietnam is reopened this time by Review's editor, F. A. Richman. He attacks Dean Rusk's myopic vision" and alleges that President Johnson's decision to transfer the responsibility for multi-agency foreign operations from the White House basement to the State Department Secretariat represents an "abdication of presidential perspective." It's too bad he neglects to mention that today the rigid White House perspective on foreign affairs, especially toward Vietnam, seems identical with that of the State Department. Coordination of the White House with the State Department has improved markedly...
...ambassador to Mexico when Lyndon Johnson succeeded to the presidency, soon became Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs and the Administration's "one voice on all matters affecting this hemisphere." Last year he was promoted to Under Secretary and the Department's No. 3 man, after Dean Rusk and Under Secretary George Ball...
...China by Western newsmen-the Toronto Star's Mark Gayn, Agence France Presse's Jacques Marcuse, Danish Photographer Ole Neesgaard (who shot some of the color footage)-as well as interviews with recently returned Korean War Defector Morris Wills, Authoress Han Suyin and Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
Backing up the U.S. note, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in an interview in Paris-Match, coolly tore into De Gaulle's unilateral action, dismissing as silly the French notion that NATO participation could drag France into a war not of its own making. Nonetheless, added Rusk, if France insisted on breaking its contracts, "fourteen nations, comprising 450 million people and possessing massive military power, will not be paralyzed by the attitude of France...