Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a set of blueprints for the revived NSC system-and William P. Rogers, the new Secretary of State, was already out in the cold. No longer would it be as necessary for the Secretary to meet with the President on an informal basis, as Acheson and Dulles and Rusk before him had done; like all other Cabinet members who dealt in foreign policy, his ideas would no longer be brought directly to Nixon, but would have to pass first through a system which Kissinger administered. And when Rogers met with the President and his national security advisor...
...will represent only the surface; in addition, there are nearly 1,000,000 photographs of Johnson's official and family activities, reel after reel of color movie film, and an oral-history section that includes 600 taped interviews with such diverse personalities as George Wallace, James Farmer, Dean Rusk and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who gave three long interviews on L.B.J.'s relationship with his family...
Center of Power. The Johnsoniana is augmented by the papers of important contemporaries, including Clark Clifford and Drew Pearson. Says Library Director, Harry Middleton: "Dean Rusk gave us his appointment books, which is all he took from the State Department except for his hat." L.B.J.'s penchant for record keeping is not limited to the stuff of archives: the library also houses an exact replica of the Oval Office, complete with the three-set television console, and bronze-backed display cases containing the Johnson daughters' wedding dresses. Lady Bird Johnson, who chose the library site, and has been...
...equally impractical?absurd, in fact?to envision some other kind of U.S. court staging a neo-Nuremberg war-crimes trial with Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk or Lyndon Johnson in the dock. It is one thing to say that such civilian leaders bear major responsibility for the war and the course it took, but quite another to expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that...
...progressive Catholic journals spoke clearly enough, U.S. bishops remained equivocal: Bishop James P. Shannon (TIME, Feb. 23, 1970) was one of the few prelates to speak out against it publicly. Philip joined other Catholic and Protestant clergy and laymen in picketing and pray-ins at the homes of Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara and at Fort Myers, Va. Then, in October 1967, Philip and three other men poured a mixture of human, calf's and duck's blood on Selective Service files