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...single day early this month -the Administration last week made a riposte. The U.S., said Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, is neither "undercommitted" nor "overcommitted" in the air war against the North, but precisely on target. As for any prolonged bombing pause to alter that balance, Secretary of State Rusk firmly ruled it out without some sort of reciprocal gesture on Hanoi's part. "We have told them many times that if they will tell us what they will stop doing, we will consider stopping the bombing," he said. "We can't stop just half the war. They...
Stream of Visitors. At midweek, Defense-Secretary Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Presidential Assistant Walt Rostow arrived to discuss world issues-from Viet Nam to NATO. The stream of visitors continued daily. The last of the Gemini astronauts, James Lovell Jr. and Edwin Aldrin, came to be decorated by the President, along with a galaxy of NASA and space industry officials. On Thanksgiving, Pat and Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird, Lyndon's Aunt Jessie Hatcher and his cousin, Oriole Bailey, along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk at week's end gingerly held out the possibility of a brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast...
Kennedy before him, has complained about the lack of new ideas from the State Department. Rusk, because of temperament and pressure of time, has been unable to build a strong, creative secretariat that can anticipate problems before they reach the fire-bell stage or recognize when a policy has outlived its usefulness. Building a flexible, imaginative second-level team that will not shy from new approaches will now be Katzenbach's most pressing task...
...point was well taken. In the always-sensitive realm of congressional relations, the department has not been notably successful of late. Rusk has not won acceptance on Capitol Hill of the Administration's policies on foreign aid or increased trade with Russia and Eastern Europe. The Administration plans to push hard next year not only for a trade bill but also for a consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Government will also face renewed heckling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Viet Nam. In this kind of encounter, Katzenbach has already won his spurs as a diplomat...