Word: rusk
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...understand the difference between a statesman and a politician. Dean Rusk [Feb. 4] is a statesman who understands the issues and knows what he is talking about. And he does it with dignity...
Nevertheless, the imposing array of officialdom at the Honolulu talks signaled that the President intended to conduct a wide-ranging examination of the military, political and psychological conduct of the Viet Nam war-indeed, of U.S. strategy in all Southeast Asia. From Washington came Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, retired Joint Chairman Maxwell Taylor, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. From Saigon came a 28-member South Vietnamese entourage headed by Ky, Chief...
...impressive arguments against it, most notably the likelihood that a Security Council debate might simply become a forum for anti-American tirades and might also force a hardening of the Soviet position. But a renewed appeal for U.N. "arbitration" from Pope Paul VI, coinciding with a cogent memo from Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, persuaded the President to try. "It's a slim chance," said a U.S. official, "but one worth probing." Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when the U.S. managed to get its resolution requesting the U.N. to arrange a peace conference on the Security...
Snowed In & Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport...
Robert Goheen, 46, Princeton. A scholarly humanist who stakes out his positions carefully, he is a close friend of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, argues that "a university president is not a political eunuch." A past chairman of the American Council on Education, he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Princeton's influential Educational Testing Service. He jumped spectacularly from professor to the presidency...