Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within a few days of being initiated, a petition supporting the Administration's stand in Southeast Asia had been signed by 1,080 (70%) students at Franklin and Marshall College. Eight members of the student body traveled to Washington to present the petition to Dean Rusk...
Said Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a press conference: "We are not interested in saving face, but in saving Viet Nam. There has not been and there is not now any indication from Hanoi that they are prepared to accept the self-determination and independent existence of their neighbors as free countries." Under the circumstances, the peacemakers could hardly feel blessed...
Portions of the book have already appeared in LIFE and ten other publications, and consequently his opinions of the State Department as "a bowl of jelly" and of Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a man who "seemed actually to prefer stale to fresh ways of saying things" are already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening...
...opinion of Rusk was low, Schlesinger is ungrudgingly admiring of some other members of the Kennedy cast. He found Lyndon Johnson "a good deal more attractive, more subtle and more formidable than I had expected." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is a "tough, courteous and humane technocrat, for whom scientific management was not an end in itself but a means to the rationality of democratic government." White House Aide McGeorge Bundy, "in spite of the certified propriety of his background, had an audacious mind and was quite capable of contempt for orthodoxy." No one rates more admiration than veteran Diplomat Averell...
...difficult to believe that such "consultation" would be anything more than perfunctory, paper-thin assent to unilateral U.S. decisions. The U.S. managed to wring an ex post facto seal of approval from the O.A.S. for its action in the Dominican Republic; and in the future, Dean Rusk told the foreign ministers, the O.A.S. "ought to be prepared to move fast and effectively...