Word: rusk
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Secretary Rusk has said he will formulate a new policy on transmitting FBI requests to U.S. embassies, and a new policy is certainly needed if Hughes is representative of the people the FBI likes to keep tabs on. What must be considered in deciding where to draw the line is whether the danger presented by a person's going uninvestigated equals the danger presented by the practice of investigation. The Department must recognize the right of privacy, and only agree to transmit FBI requests when it considers that right to be outweighed by the interests of national security. Perhaps...
...complete cooperation with the FBI as one manifestation of "Schwartzism," a phenomenon she named after Abba P. Schwartz, former director of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, a proponent of more liberal passport policies, resigned three weeks ago after he got wind of a Knight-encouraged and Rusk-approved plan to abolish his bureau. And now that he has been phased out of the State Department, a little creeping "Schwartzism" might be a fitting legacy...
...Dean Rusk's face was grim, his voice grittily intense. Concluding a Boston University speech on U.S. Asia policy last week, head-libbed: "I would hope that our citizens would try to think about these questions in terms of-nottea-table conversations-but think of it in terms of what you would do if you were the President of the United States. And perhaps out of it would come a little sense of what I mean when I say that those who make these decisions need your prayers and not your imprecations...
...rehash of the Administration's pat reasons for American policy in Vietnam, occasional diatribes against some rumor reported by a newspaper, and a few straightforward answers to innocuous queries. For example on February 27, Johnson was asked about published reports concerning the replacement of Secretary of State Rusk by Ambassador Goldberg. The President answered testily that newspapers periodically carry on against Rusk; he concluded "I would not believe that the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune would be in the business of predicting of nominating my Secretary of State...
...Carnegie, Alan Pifer has been moved up as acting president to succeed John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Rockefeller's President J. George Harrar keeps the post he took over from Dean Rusk...