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...opposed busing, abortion reform, and until this year, a federal takeover of welfare. He has favored right-to-work laws, the death penalty and preventive detention, and opposed federal aid to New York City. His right-wing approach to international affairs is vividly reflected in his selection of Dean Rusk as his foreign policy advisor. The central theme of Carter's campaign has been the need to trim federal bureaucracy, specifically welfare bureaucracy; such language masks a more fundamental desire to realign governmental priorities and to eliminate the social welfare programs of the 60's. The brunt of this...
...Douglas, who has few intimates, confided only in his wife, former Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford and former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who wrote the earlier, misleadingly optimistic press releases on Douglas' health. The four decided that Douglas should get a second opinion from Rehabilitation Specialist Dr. Howard Rusk, who had treated him earlier in New York City. Battling all the way, the old man was determined to miss as little court business as possible, though his appearances on the bench for oral arguments were constantly interrupted by spasms of pain. Two weeks ago, on a day when...
...inevitable," he says about the accumulation of bitterness toward him in much of the press and in Congress. "When you live at this elevation of power for seven years, you gain many critics and very few permanent supporters. There have been no exceptions-Acheson, Dulles, Rusk." His relations with Ford remain as close and open as they have been -though Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon post, is soon likely to be vying with Kissinger for Ford's time. Every day last week, while reporters were writing that he would no longer be able to spend so much time with...
...nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might go up in the fireball, but his pride would be intact; and the nation's survivors would then have inherited Lyndon Johnson or John McCormack, Carl Hayden or Dean Rusk, if any of them had followed orders to go under the mountain...
Special Meeting. In August 1962 the assassination project came under discussion at the highest levels of the Government. McCone called a special meeting of officials-among them Rusk, McNamara and Murrow-to discuss the growing Soviet activities in Cuba. McCone and another man present remember that McNamara raised the question of disposing of Castro. Murrow at once objected to any discussion on that point. McCone echoed the protest. Nevertheless, a memorandum circulated two days later by Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert attached to McNamara's office, included a mention of a plan for "eliminating...