Word: rusk
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Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...
...return to Washington, Miller was appointed a junior assistant to then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk with responsibility for Vietnam. As in Iran, Miller says he found a "confusion of purposes in U.S. policy." "The simplifications that were being used [to explain the policy] were less than the complicated truth," Miller says...
...there have been billionaires like Bunker Hunt and Michener's Quimper, who have lost more money in a year than Harvard spends. Yes, there have been slick, amazingly successful politicians like Lyndon Johnson or Michener's Ransom Rusk and ranches like the King ranch that are so big that it makes more sense to fly accross them than to drive. Texas and its history are full of people and things which shock non-Texans...
Salted throughout the narrative are the reminiscences of decision makers and ordinary people suddenly caught up in history. What makes these "witnesses" so powerful is the personal flavor they impart to well-known events. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk tells how, as an Army colonel in Washington in 1945, he faced the problem of dividing responsibility between Soviet and American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous...
Spence made the appointment after a year-long search. Former GSAS Dean Edward L. Keenan '57 and former Associate Dean for Administration Jeremy W. Rusk stepped down last summer...