Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of State Dean Rusk dropped one such hint when, in a press conference on the fifth anniversary of his oath taking as Secretary of State (a tenure exceeded by only eight of his 51 predecessors), he remarked that the response to U.S. peace efforts had been overwhelmingly favorable "except from those who could in fact sit down and make peace." At the same time, cables advising that air strikes might soon be resumed began flowing to U.S. ambassadors in the 40-odd nations that U.S. emissaries had visited when the peace offensive was launched at Christmas...
...battlements. He was in almost constant touch with the three men who from the first have been his chief advisers and sounding boards on the Viet Nam war-Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. It was Rusk, in particular, who in recent days served as the President's busiest foreign-policy adviser, articulator and lightning...
Four professors, it said, had organized two Colorado teach-ins, and these four were close friends of two other professors who were ex-members of the Communist Party. One of them, at a teach-in, had called President Johnson, Secretary Rusk, and Adlai Stevenson international outlaws. A second teach-in was "much worse;" propaganda leaflets were distributed and a Communist film shown twice. Furthermore, the report said that the four professors controlled the Colorado Daily, the student-subsidized newspaper. The paper, said the report, "is being used to extend the influence of that particular group." "The net result is that...
...Johnson's Vietnam policy. One of the four professors charged with "friendship" with the two ex-Communists had never met them; another was acquainted with them professionally. Only one considered himself a "close friend" of the two men, both respected, tenured faculty members. Professor Richard Wilson denied calling Johnson, Rusk, and Stevenson outlaws, and all hands agreed that the Communist film had not been shown at the teach-in in question. It had been shown at a later meeting, but on that occasion pro-Administration speakers outnumbered their opponents...
...Five years ago," Freeman told a farm group in Lincoln, Neb., last month, "I was just beginning to learn what a Secretary of Agriculture does to earn the title." What does he do? "He sur vives." To which McNamara, Rusk and Udall would probably agree...