Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would not behave as he thought it should. Far more than his earlier interview, it was his own tragedy on film, the first national look at the man as he really was behind the White House scenes. Johnson's hero was his loyal Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; his villain. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. In Johnson's account of how he ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam partially halted on March 31, 1968, it was Rusk-not Clifford-who suggested the idea. Rusk. L.B.J. related, first broached the point March 4, and it was Rusk...
...thing clear," he said, "I'm telling you now, I am not going to stop the bombing." The recollection of the men involved in the argument was that Rusk talked of the possibility of a bombing pause, but only unenthusiastically as one alternative. Witnesses of those days insist that it was Clifford, not Rusk, who raised the first effective doubts in those councils...
...conceivable, of course, that everybody is technically correct. Rusk may have suggested the bombing halt but then not supported it in the discussions. Others who worked with Rusk insist that he took a position only after determining where Johnson stood...
...wonder the British are somewhat distressed that their friends, nearly all members of the Eastern intellectual establishment, have been replaced by men of a different background. "For years, it's been good old Dean [Rusk], or Walt [Rostow] or George [Ball]," says one diplomat in London. "Now there's suddenly Heinrich Kissinger in the White House basement sweating over the Baden-Württemberg election, or names like Ehrlichman and Ziegler." One British writer saw Nixon's election as "the end of the affair...
...always, Rusk has maintained his calm. "I'm just chuckling these days and leaving it all to them," he says. This time, he may well get the last chuckle. Governor Lester Maddox, who has been bitingly critical of Rusk, cannot legally alter the makeup of the board of regents with new appointments until after the first of the year. The board's moderates, who constitute a majority, were not planning to wait. They scheduled a special meeting for this week, intending to approve Rusk's appointment...