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...children are coming to city halls, state houses and Capitol Hill. In his latest book, Changing of the *uard: Power and Leadership in America, Broder profiles the top contenders to be leaders of the new era, the best and the brightest of the generation of McGeorge Bundy's, Dean Rusk's and Chester Bowles's children...
...used if the two countries ever went to war with each other. From Moscow's viewpoint, the question was given particular force by the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev and forced him to remove Soviet rockets from the island. A relieved Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State, added a memorable phrase to the annals of diplomacy when he commented at the time: "We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked...
...Dean Rusk, Secretary of State from 1961 to '69, wrote to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March, suggesting that the NSC adviser should not have the power to negotiate, nor should he have a press secretary running around town promoting the fellow's personality and position. "The Assistant for National Security Affairs should not attempt to organize his office as a mini-foreign office," Rusk wrote...
...rules can be written for the relationship among President, Secretary and the NSC adviser in this era of power by personality. The central figure, as always, is the President. For instance, McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser from 1961 to '66, was a forceful intellect, but he never shouldered Rusk aside. The reason was John Kennedy, a man who studied world events and the shifts of power and had seasoned views of America's role. Lyndon Johnson, the domestic impresario, was less certain. He needed help and turned to Rusk, Robert McNamara, his Defense Secretary, and Walt Rostow...
...Modern communications have speeded up the course of world events. Almost every week, you get an indication of the importance of the man on the scene." That dictum, from former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is one of Associate Editor Jordan Bonfante's favorite quotations of the past few months. Rusk was talking about the continuing importance of America's beleaguered diplomatic service, but Bonfante thinks the words might just as easily apply to TIME's own well-traveled corps of foreign correspondents. In trying to describe and assess the increasing number of assaults on diplomatic privilege...