Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, to no one's surprise, Lyndon Johnson unveiled a program. Said he: "I have directed a special task force within my Administration to recommend a broad and long-range plan of worldwide educational endeavor." The group will be headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, will include Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner. Though Johnson gave few details, he envisioned stepped-up exchanges of students and teachers and an increased "flow of books and ideas and art, of works of science and imagination." He delicately refrained from quoting the price of his latest...
Other Administration dropouts have found room at the top without writing a line about the Cuban crisis or J.F.K.'s opinion of Dean Rusk. Andrew Hatcher, a Negro who earned $18,000 as assistant White House press secretary, is now market-promotions manager for the Ballantine beer outfit. Another former press aide, Malcolm Kilduff, whose chief claim to fame is that he announced Kennedy's death to the press in Dallas, is in the $50,000-a-year bracket as a partner in a Washington public relations firm...
...when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...
...insult long enough to test the new President's response. It was straightforward and unequivocal: no under-the-table money at all, economic assistance only on its merits-and only if it was clearly not a quid pro quo for the spy's release. Secretary of State Rusk sent Lee an apology, and Lee let the agent go without fanfare...
...unclear just how the U.S. could verify such a withdrawal, if it took place, or how the Reds could be kept from sneaking another division over the sievelike border to replace it. Nor was it clear whether Hanoi was even interested in bargaining. "Thus far," said Dean Rusk, "my antennae have not picked up the key signal...