Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessarily. Observers as far back as Alexis de Tocqueville have noted the typical American's willingness to yield self-interest for the common good. Yet the U.S., like every known democracy, tends to put off dealing with crisis until a bit after the eleventh hour. "Americans," as Dean Rusk once said, "have a way of doing at the end of the day what they don't want to do at noon...
...Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate? Says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who testified on behalf of the pact: "A mistake was made in the beginning of the debate. We began to ball up our fists at each other without knowing what it is we were fighting about...
Former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger both warned the committee of the danger of alienating all of Latin America by rejecting the treaties. The Administration, said Kissinger, should try harder to persuade the public "that we are not retreating, that we are protecting our long-term interests...
...Rusk added that he hopes the gift will come through soon and that it will be "non-political...
Columbia would use the money to expand a library collection of Korean literature and art, Rusk said...