Word: rusk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week former Secretary of State Dean Rusk recalled how he watched Gromyko's face and body language as John Kennedy warned him about putting missiles into Cuba. Gromyko never gave himself away. He denied the missiles were on the island. "We knew the missiles were there," said Rusk. "The President had a desk full of photos. I'm sure Gromyko knew. He was doing what Moscow told him to do." Rusk took him to dinner that fateful October night, and Old Grom's mask remained impenetrable through vodka, wine and cognac...
...Strauch Committee is only one of several efforts to re-define the GSAS. In the Government Department, for instance, curricular reforms enacted this summer were aimed at combatting over-specialization. And in University Hall Spence has chosen to reduce GSAS bureaucracy by not replacing Jeremy W. Rusk, who retired last spring as associate dean of he GSAS for administration...
Karnow cites Dean Rusk, secretary of state to John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson and a man involved in Far East policy for three decades, as a prime example of someone who failed to use history properly. "I went down to Athens. Georgia to interview Dean Rusk, and said what was your mindset, what was your thinking, and he said. 'I was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1933, and I was there at the Oxford Union that night when they voted not to fight for King and country. I could remember that the Berlin Radio used that...
There are echoes of Shultz's position in former Secretary of State Dean Rusk's accusation that Congress meddles too much in foreign policy, rarely giving a presidential initiative a full and fair chance. A former National Security Adviser to a Democratic President fears that the Democrats may this year produce a presidential candidate, a party platform and a campaign mood that will be strongly isolationist. Both Walter Mondale and Gary Hart shy too much from risk, which is always a part of leadership, this man believes...
...State Department was monitoring the telltale music from Moscow, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin, seemingly oblivious to the events back in Moscow, was two floors up, mingling with members of Washington's foreign policy Establishment at a birthday celebration for former Secretary of State Dean Rusk...