Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edmund A. Bojarski Rusk, Texas...
...first naturalized citizen to become Secretary of State; the first Secretary who had visited Peking and Moscow before his appointment; and the first Secretary since World War II who did not part his hair. He pursued the last topic relentlessly, speculating as to what category Dean Rusk, who had no hair, belonged: "My barber, who is a very wise man, said, 'Well, Mr. President, he didn't have much hair, but what he had, he parted.' " In my reply, I evaded this fascinating subject. Nixon disappeared immediately afterward, not mingling even for a few moments at the traditional reception...
...unkindly phrased or crudely expressed, might one day be revealed. The names on the Kennedy logs evoked an eventful era: General Douglas MacArthur, former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Rusk said he had "no forebodings" about what the tapes may reveal, adding: "I doubt that the transcripts will shed very much new historical light." McNamara noted that all important meetings involve the presence of an official transcriber, so "I knew damn well that a record was being made of everything I said." Compared with the Nixon tapes, he predicted, "you won't hear many expletives...
Throughout the postwar years the big leaders have had, according to former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a code of civility. For all his tough words about U.S. foreign policy, Brezhnev has never personally savaged an American President. Lyndon Johnson once heard that his Undersecretary of State, George Ball, had disparaged Charles de Gaulle. L.B.J. called Ball up and told...