Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite, not because of the ponderous decision-making machinery at State. Dulles, the report said, agreed to become Secretary of State only if he did not have to administer the bureaucracy he found there and, according to State's self-critics, "scarcely used the department at all." Dean Rusk, while he had "an informed interest in measures that would stimulate the departmental machinery to produce new ideas, did not welcome dissent on the Viet Nam issue...
...Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-ŕ-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most...
Some of the other men who served under John Kennedy left Washington years ago, iridescent with the celebrity of Camelot, and found a measure of fortune. Dean Rusk stayed on to work for Lyndon Johnson. Rusk was never exactly part of the New Frontier's clan anyway; he was taciturn, stubborn, spartan, undeniably intelligent, distrustful of personal publicity, given to seven-day work weeks at the State Department...
Some even thought that his self-abnegation was a pose of some kind. But after L.B.J.'s presidency was capsized, Rusk withdrew further into his privacy. To have been Secretary of State was, for him, an honor without profit. Almost none of the bountiful lecturer's fees and foundation posts that have rewarded other public servants descended on him. His checkbook was almost depleted when he left the State Department, and it is probably thinner now. When a Rockefeller Foundation grant he received last year ran out, Rusk accepted a new job as professor of international...
Some in Washington who served with the Johnson Administration are unaware that Rusk is even leaving town. This week, with a few very private farewells and no interviews, Rusk is closing his house in Washington and departing for his native Georgia. In some sense, he goes as a victim of the unpopular war that he so doggedly and conscientiously defended...