Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on the Present Danger, a blue-ribbon nonprofit think tank that was formed two years ago. Though it has only four full-time employees, its clout lies in the respect enjoyed by its 162 members, such as former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Its principal SALT spokesman, Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters, and has been stumping the country expressing his reservations about SALT II. A cool, persuasive debater...
...associating Harvard with goodness, and other universities with less beneficence or value. For the fact is that if Huntington were denied the right to teach here, he would undoubtedly turn to "lesser" schools for employment, probably in the South or West, where other hawks such as Rostow and Rusk teach. So, what difference does it make if we deny him tenure? The difference is significant only if we assume that Harvard has more value or prestige than "lesser" schools, and that thus his punishment would be a "step down...
...eloquent voice in Carter's defense is former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor down at the University of Georgia. Rusk sees much of the Carter problem as arising from the very noble motive of standing beyond the grasp of any interest or bloc...
...President Carter is trying to look at the national in terest," Rusk said. "Somebody has to. There is a frenetic quality now about the demands of the special interests. If you add up all the demands being made, they would destroy the nation...
...Rusk makes a good point. But Carter has enlarged his own problem. He is uncomfortable with bigness and complexity. He is suspicious of wealth and achievement, wary of tradition, protocol and many of the rituals of advanced urban society. In his populist fevers he sometimes seems mistakenly to champion mediocrity rather than excellence. Some of his prejudices seem to arise more from his small-town background than from reason and experience in a diverse world. A Congressman who went to the White House to argue tax reform with the President came away feeling that Carter made good sense until...