Word: rusk
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...seems intent on continuing -- even expanding and institutionalizing -- the policy of intervention which it applied to the Dominican Republic. At a meeting of the O.A.S. foreign ministers last week, Secretary of State Rusk proposed the formation of a regional "peace-keeping force", an Inter-American army designed to "safeguard the democratic process against totalitarian takeover...
...Rusk's Antenna. The essential facts of the story-minus Stevenson's posthumous opinions-were reported when they were first leaked to the press by U Thant early this year. Nonetheless, no sooner had Sevareid's piece appeared last week than reporters demanded more explicit details from the Administration. Secretary McNamara retorted angrily: "There is not one word of truth in the remarks made about me or the position attributed to me." White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers declined even to discuss the story, explaining: "I follow the President's advice of a long time...
Finally, State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey admitted that the U.S. had indeed rejected U Thant's suggestions for a conference-through Secretary of State Dean Rusk, not McNamara. McCloskey's unfortunately worded comment was that "we saw nothing to indicate that Hanoi was prepared for peace talks, and the Secretary of State said he would recognize it when it came. His antenna is sensitive...
...decision to send in more troops did not reflect any change of policy in Washington. On the contrary. Secretary of State Dean Rusk reiterated last week that the U.S. is simply "getting on with our commitment here-keeping open the possibilities of peace if the other side decides to pursue that tack." In fact, though, it is increasingly evident that Hanoi is as deeply committed to victory as the U.S. Five crack divisions of North Viet Nam's regular army have already been thrown into the struggle, more troops infiltrate every week. Thus the widening war in Viet...
Lyndon Johnson relies heavily on a number of men, notably Dean Rusk, Bill Moyers and McGeorge Bundy (who last week was offered the presidency of the Ford Foundation). But it is only McNamara whom the President describes-often-as "indispensable...