Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concerned that the White House was reacting too slowly and indecisively, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Senior Adviser Hedley Donovan urged Carter to seek help from the nation's veteran foreign-policy makers. Fifteen prominent men, including Presidential Troubleshooter Clark Clifford, former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger, former Under Secretary of State George Ball and Panama Canal Negotiator Sol Linowitz, were summoned to the White House. First, they were given an intelligence briefing that established the existence of the Soviet brigade. It comprised 2,600 soldiers assigned to two garrisons under the command...
...seven were closeted at CIA headquarters at Langley, Va., scrutinizing the data on the Soviet troops in Cuba and cross-examining U.S. intelligence chiefs. Over the weekend the seven and the other members (including former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger) were to receive a thorough briefing on Vance's talks with the Soviets. Then they planned to huddle with Carter and top White House aides. Although the process seems time consuming, the outside experts would not be asked to reach a consensus, but would be used as a sounding board for Administration officials...
...elegant eighth-floor reception suite for foreign dignitaries, invited 177 well-heeled guests to a $1,000-a-plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Pérignon. It was a menu that first Secretary...
...other occasions, had admitted perjury. Cumulatively, this eroded Jacobsen's credibility and enhanced Connally's. Perhaps no less important was the parade of celebrated witnesses who testified to Connally's integrity. They included: the Rev. Billy Graham, Lady Bird Johnson and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...presidential scene. The title is unofficial, and has been slow in taking effect because of the unstructured nature of Carter's leadership. But Rosalynn now joins a select fraternity that since the end of World War II includes only Clark Clifford, John Foster Dulles, Robert Kennedy, Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger...