Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aptly enough, on Veterans Day last fall that the idea of linking another, longer bombing pause with a peace offensive first blossomed. Gathered at the L.B.J. ranch for a working holiday with the President were Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy and Bill Moyers. The four enthusiastically recommended it to Johnson, but the President feared that so dramatic and massive a campaign might be mistaken for a public relations ploy or, worse, an indication of U.S. lack of resolve in the war. But Johnson was willing to consider it further. "All right," he said, "I want you to start looking...
...Sticking Point. Everywhere the U.S. missionaries went, they presented a 14-point itemization of what the U.S. considered the essential elements in any peace settlement in Viet Nam. Penciled by Dean Rusk, they were, in effect, the U.S. conditions to Hanoi and Peking for ending the bloody war before it escalated further-and a rationale for the rest of the world...
...present peace push stems from several indications of increased willingness to negotiate which came from Hanoi late this fall. At the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in October, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Mr. Janos Peter, informed Secretary Rusk that North Vietnam would come to the bargaining table if American bombing raids were suspended. The Russians conveyed a similar message through the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Foy Kohler. Finally, editorials in Nhan Dan, the official Hanoi newspaper, indicated that North Vietnam would no longer insist on the withdrawal of American troops as a precondition to peace talks...
...involved in the war in Viet Nam. That was a prime reason for the visit, and in talks with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Humphrey requested increased Japanese help, consisting of economic and medical aid and refugee relief. Sato merely looked bland. Hubert also handed Sato a letter from Dean Rusk outlining the U.S.'s negotiation proposals on Viet Nam and assured him that Washington was doing all it could...
...absent Foreign Minister. As Il Borghese played it, La Pira had gaily dismissed Communism as "a peril that no longer exists." President Johnson, he told the editor with a mystic's assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops, seesaws and bogs down." La Pira denied everything, insisted he had been merely joking...