Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special presidential assistant for national security affairs, the brilliant 48-year-old Warsaw-born academic will share with Carter and incoming Secretary of State Cyrus Vance the primary responsibility for the conduct of America's foreign affairs. Whether he will overshadow Vance as McGeorge Bundy sometimes did Dean Rusk and Kissinger almost always did William Rogers, remains to be seen...
...former Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Vance "a superb appointment," praising his "direct and exceptional experience, sound and solid judgment," as well as his administrative ability. Former Under Secretary of State George Ball said Vance was "a very natural choice because he is so well equipped; he is also a fellow without enemies." Even Henry Kissinger was known to approve of him. Lunching with TIME editors not long ago, Kissinger was asked whom he preferred to be his successor. He needed to think only a few seconds before saying, "Cy Vance. He has the experience, the intelligence...
...major harm. But I will say for Henry, he is the first Secretary of State with whom I dealt-and I've dealt with four-who changed the image of America for the better. He was not fond of the big stick like Dulles, weak like Rusk or naive like Rogers. He came here during a turning point, when the Arabs had won their first victory over Israel, and he proved to be a man of his word. Israel and the Arabs needed someone in whom both could have confidence. Henry was this...
...leading candidate for National Security Adviser is Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, 48, a major foreign affairs adviser to Carter during the campaign. But former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a law professor at the University of Georgia, who met with Carter at week's end, is pushing Benjamin Read, 51, who earned Rusk's respect as his top executive assistant during the difficult Viet Nam War policy days. Another possibility: Henry Owen, 56, a political and military affairs specialist and president of the Brookings Institution. Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, 47, fired by Ford, has impressed Carter...
...DEAN RUSK, 67, former Secretary of State: I'm very optimistic. With a little luck the South can show the way for the rest of the country in race relations. Blacks and whites are working together in the South. There are personal relationships here upon which we can build in ways that are not true in Watts and in Chicago. I think we can expect blacks to take a greater role in public service and in community affairs...