Word: rusk
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Secretary of State Dean Rusk spent a night at the ranch, discussed with the President a broad spectrum of foreign relations ranging from the situation in Indonesia to the upcoming visit of German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. There was no urgency in their discussions. For whatever his critics may say about Johnson's foreign policy, the President himself is convinced that his Administration's dealings with friends and foes alike have been even more fruitful than its relations with Congress, and that Rusk, furthermore, is the 20th century's most successful Secretary of State...
Operating out of an office in the West Wing of the White House, Moyers has access to virtually every secret document in the national archives, is a regular at the exclusive Tuesday luncheons with Lyndon and his "Big Three" on foreign affairs-Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy. The President one day will call him "my vice president in charge of anything"; the next, he will say Bill is "in charge of everything." Some White House watchers go so far as to rate him the No. 2 man in the entire Administration...
...Frontier Friend Nicole Alphand was swirling around town winding up a hectic month of goodbyes. Everyone was a little mournful now that French Ambassador Hervé Alphand was taking his glittering wife back to Paris, where he will become Secretary General of the French Foreign Office. Said Dean Rusk, recalling Nicole's brilliant seven-year social reign in the capital: "I imagine Washington will once again be called a hardship post." Nicole shed some sentimental tears herself, but she did brighten up the farewells with such things as her black-silver-and-white dress by Cardin. Before flying home...
...following day, Johnson spent 45 minutes reviewing domestic and foreign problems with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and a hour with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who brought him a get-well message from the Soviet leaders and a rundown on the crises in Indonesia and Rhodesia (see THE WORLD). Then the postoperative euphoria started wearing off. Taken off sedation, the President slept fitfully, some nights for as little as two hours! He was restless during the day. "While I was there," said Moyers, "he spent part of his time in his chair, and he got back...
...Sometimes," Rusk has said, "it is better to do nothing than to do something simply for the sake of doing something." He believes that U.S. foreign policy should stress reliability, not experimentation. "The United States has too much mass and momentum to be a hummingbird, darting in and out of alluring blossoms to see what nectar can be had for the whims of the moment," he argues. "We owe it to ourselves as well as to the rest of the world to remain steady on course...