Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonably conceding failures of cold war policy and military defeat to the enemy and yet coming out of it all as the big front-runner for the November elections. Once again he proved himself to be a true media wizard by his quiet, almost unnoticed, burial of the Dulles-Rusk containment ideology. The basis of this strategy rested on a lie: the creation of the fear that the Communist Chinese would spread their influence on a global scale with countries turning red like falling dominoes. With this threat starting in Vietnam, it would surely reach the American shores very quickly...
...basis of intelligence does not guarantee justice. Are intelligent people necessarily the best people? Mere intelligence will not help one make important value judgements or moral choices. Smart people are equally if not more capable of perpetrating injustice. Consider the war policies of Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy, or Dean Rusk--all of whom are distinguished scholars. So when a society distributes its goods, factors like need, hard work and rare talent deserve reward as much as intelligence...
Riad also wondered why a superpower like the U.S. should have any difficulty at all telling Israel precisely how to behave. "I recall what Dean Rusk said to me in 1968," Riad told Scott, "when I asked him about the U.S. position on withdrawal by Israel. He said, 'There is no doubt that we don't want any country to annex territory of another country. This is our policy, so the Israelis should no doubt withdraw from your land.' I replied, 'Why, then, don't you make a public statement? That...
Allen on Nixon. A tall, white-haired charmer, Donovan frequently goes to interviews without any prepared questions or topics, preferring to let his subjects chat away on things they really care about. Instead of prodding Dean Rusk about Viet Nam, he concentrated on the former Secretary of State's experiences with students at the University of Georgia-where he now teaches -and got a wry description of Rusk's generation-gap difficulties: "A dialogue between those who are beginning to forget and those who have no chance to remember." When President Nixon imposed wage and price controls, Donovan...
...Viet Nam was the central tragedy of his presidency, Johnson confesses no doubts about the overall course he pursued. At a 1964 meeting with Maxwell Taylor, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and other advisers, Johnson reports, "as one gloomy opinion followed another, I suddenly asked whether anyone at the table doubted that Viet Nam was 'worth all this effort.' Ambassador Taylor answered quickly that 'we could not afford to let Hanoi win in the interests of our overall position in Asia and in the world.' " The others agreed. Throughout his long narrative, Johnson blindly sticks...