Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean Rusk, convinced that his and his colleagues' attitudes towards Indochina had been essentially correct all along, lamented this month humanitarian attitudes toward Vietnam in a series of lectures on the difficulties of foreign policy...
...common people of any country always prefer peace to war." Rusk told his Lehigh University audience resignedly, "but in a democracy that view wells up and sends out signals all over the world." Rusk was right--if the American people brought their government to end the war, finally, they acted less out of any profound consideration of conflicting world forces or the principles of American ideology than because the common people of any country always prefer peace...
...long as not common people but people like Rusk ran their government, people who just trusted in it because they loved their country and weren't very interested in politics were likely to find themselves traveling in strange, hostile, bewildering countries, like Kafka's explorer. As the orphans poured in, and word began to spread that even the Saigon government's own troops might turn against withdrawing American troops, 'populist' papers like The Chicago Tribune began to thunder about incomprehensible Vietnamese ingratitude...
...Dean Rusk, during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...Kissinger held discussions with a group of prominent public figures, many of them former high Government officials, to get advice on how to advance Middle East negotiations toward a settlement after the disappointing failure of his shuttle diplomacy. The participants in the talks included former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former Under Secretary of State George Ball and former Ambassador Averell Harriman...