Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy was very level-headed himself and pushed the strategy of trading in Jupiter missiles in Turkey in order to defuse the crisis. In the book, Hersh turns this around and treats this deal (which, by the way, was acknowledged in 1987 by Kennedy's Secretary of State, Dean Rusk) as shocking...
...Rusk: We could be just utterly wrong, but we've never really believed that Khrushchev would take on a general nuclear war over Cuba...
...eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked." --Dean Rusk...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk: I think we'll be facing a situation that could well lead to general war. We have an obligation to do what has to be done, but to do it in a way that gives everybody a chance to pull away from it before it gets too hard...
...Soviet ships begin to turn away from the quarantine zone. Rusk whispers his famous comment to Bundy...