Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since he is the most eloquent and chief exponent of U.S. foreign policy, I would like to see Secretary of State Dean Rusk as Man of the Year...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk pointed out in Paris last week that the American commitment to South Viet Nam is indivisible from the American commitment to Western Europe's independence. In a forceful summation of all the free world's unlearned lessons over the past three decades, Rusk reminded NATO's Foreign Ministers at their year-end council meeting: "Ask yourself what your national interests are in the Viet Nam conflict. Ask yourself what were our interests in Manchuria in 1931 and in Ethiopia in 1936. Ask yourself what were your national interests as Hitler made...
Heavy Burdens. In practical, immediate terms, argued Rusk, "the group around this table has an enormous interest in how the U.S. meets its commitments in Viet Nam. If we don't meet those commitments, couldn't it lead the Communist capitals to feel they could undertake greater adventures elsewhere? And couldn't it lead Peking to claim that we do not react to provocation? If one commitment is not met in one place, ask yourself what other commitments elsewhere would mean. We will not ask the American people to neglect a commitment in one place and maintain...
...Rusk's eloquence and McNamara's statistics, most European statesmen are concerned that the Viet Nam war may force the U.S. to deplete its military commitment at NATO. In fact, as McNamara pointed out, by increasing its cumulative military spending $50 billion in the last five years, the U.S. has insured its present ability to send a major force to Asia without any significant reduction in its European strength...
...Schlesinger attended, one of Rusk's defenders suggested that it was absolutely true. Rusk considered Schlesinger one of the biggest gossips in Washington and deliberately decided not to say anything important when he was in the room...