Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some people think about it, the more annoyed they seem to get with Schlesinger's reminiscences of the Kennedy Administration, especially with his remarks that the Kennedys, Bobby as well as Jack, didn't really want Lyndon as Vice President, and his disclosure that Jack thought Dean Rusk was a nothing and was going to dump...
President Johnson, in an emphatic press-conference statement, came to the defense of his Secretary of State, and Schlesinger's onslaught seems to have left Rusk more secure in his job than ever. At a briefing for more than 130 Congressmen last week, Rusk got an unexpected standing ovation; and at a White House dinner for 100 business men, he got by far the greatest salvo of applause...
Sunday, August 22 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Man with a Mission, Dr. Howard A. Rusk," who directs the New York Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Repeat...
...going to comment on these particular remarks or similar remarks that might be made while I am in public office," said Rusk. "I am quite sure that the future historian is going to look back on this period with a compound eye, that is, through many facets." Rusk said he planned to tape-record his own impressions of events during his tenure as Secretary of State, and they would become available when the papers of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson were made public. "But," he added pointedly, "my associates in Government and my colleagues abroad can rest on the assurance that...
Schlesinger also reported Kennedy's frustrations at what he called the undynamic, uninspired operation of the State Department. Replied Rusk: "The Department of State is filled with competent and dedicated officers who have to grapple every day with the most complex and difficult problems that this nation has to face. Now there are times when some wish us to act with more drama, but there are problems about dramatizing issues, if drama gets in the way of settlement . . . The department's purpose is to try to bring about what some people will call a boring situation, that...