Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Georgetown cocktail circuit buzzes almost weekly with rumors that the Secretary of State is on his way out, Lyndon Johnson has always deeply respected the bland, imperturbable Rusk, feels a personal kinship with him because of his Georgian drawl and tenant-farm origins. "He is No. 1 in the Cabinet," said Johnson, when Rusk came under attack last summer in Arthur M. Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy Administration, "and he is No. 1 with...
...briefings and conferences through the week, Rusk was almost invariably at the President's side. Even in his seventh floor State Department office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, the Secretary of State was only an arm's length away from Johnson. A white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk...
...When Rusk was not conferring with the President, he was wading through a herculean schedule: writing memos, sifting intelligence reports, receiving ambassadors, speechmaking, conferring with aides, answering Congressmen's questions. Among his visitors during the week: British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and Defense Minister Denis Healey, who brought the welcome news that any "adjustments" in British commitments east of Suez would be made "without significant loss of strength." On normal days, 1,200 cables cascade into Foggy Bottom; when things are bubbling, 1,800. They are usually bubbling. "The world is round," says Rusk. "Only one-third...
...Rusk also sparred with journalists in Washington and four European capitals on the topic of Viet Nam in an hour-long Meet the Press session that was transmitted by Early Bird satellite. Four times he went up to Capitol Hill for hearings on the war, and despite his well-deserved reputation for wizardry at handling Congressmen, some of the sessions were so grueling that even Buddha-faced Rusk came out looking haggard and upset. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark after the Foreign Relations Committee had kept Rusk on the griddle for three hours: "The poor...
Scared to Death. Rusk was even unhappier after his second confrontation with the committee. He expected to spend no more than an hour explaining a $415 million supplemental aid appropriation, mostly for Viet Nam, for he had already repeatedly and eloquently rehearsed all the arguments...