Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were clearly moved by the resemblances to Jack and Bobby of Actors William Devane and Martin Sheen. A dramatization of events presented with the doggedness of a documentary, Missiles won some praise from Historian Schlesinger: "It was a simplification, not falsification, of events." But former Secretary of State Dean Rusk had objections. When Nikita Khrushchev, who was played by Howard da Silva, recalled the Soviet ships, Rusk said, "We didn't jump up and down like schoolboys whose team had scored a touchdown. The episode was a little naive." As for General Maxwell Taylor, he was disgusted with Actor...
...practical to continue to fight a war that has no popular support at all.") With Charles Bartlett he wrote an intimate report of the intricate discussions that led Kennedy to the Cuban missile crisis, including the first use of "hawks and doves" and the unforgettable quote from Dean Rusk: "We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other guy just blinked." Stewart always had an instinct for the memorable or revealing quote...
...Stone ridiculed Mississippi's Senators Eastland and Stennis for blaming civil rights agitation on outside interference and communist conspiracy. He compared their attitude towards blacks to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's attitude towards Hanoi: "The theory in both cases is that all would be well if only the North let its neighbors alone." His incisive prose defuses the force of their paranoia: One almost expects to hear Eastland and Stennis ask how Washington can claim to be for peaceful coexistence and yet insist on supporting "wars of liberation" in the South, or accuse old Ho Chi Johnson of persisting...
...memorandum to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Kennedy stressed the "training of police forces of new emerging countries to assure that they can maintain order without the necessity of firing upon civilian demonstrators who are often composed of students...
...with the deer that came to his cabin for a handout. He kept calling for more food to feed them in this rare wilderness excursion. The next morning his eggs came without toast. "You fed all the bread to the deer," the chagrined President was told. One morning Dean Rusk got an angry phone call from Kennedy complaining about a news leak. Find the culprit, barked Kennedy. Rusk went to unusual lengths to trace the leak, finally called in the reporter himself for a grilling. The Secretary of State got the answer. Rusk called J.F.K. back. "I've found...