Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's peace offensive was signaled by the return to Washington of Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, who had traveled 30,000 miles, visited twelve countries. Harriman was the farthest flying of all the emissaries Johnson sent out. With him when he returned was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had flown to India for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's funeral and then visited Saigon for talks with South Vietnamese and U.S. leaders. Neither official could disguise his disillusion...
...DEAN RUSK, 56, has, if possible, weathered even more rumors of impending resignation than McNamara...
...desire for peace" -at which point, many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed that a U.S. diplomat recently handed a North Vietnamese representative a direct communication, dealing with Washington...
Copies of the petition were sent to Vice President Humphrey, Secretary of State Rusk, and Secretary of Defense MacNamara...
...remote and quiet Lyndon Johnson sat last week in his oval office watching for signs of peace. Beside his desk stood two news tickers. Every wire-service story that clattered in was scrutinized by the President for the slightest hint of response. Every phone call from Dean Rusk, every memo from the still-voyaging Harriman was eagerly accepted. Of the President's desire for peace there could be no doubt. Nor of the stakes, should the present all-out effort to get to the conference table fail. By any measure, Johnson had engaged the power and prestige...