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...liberal, Halberstam writes, and he knew the liberal had nowhere else to go. So he turned his back on the liberal stevensonian, Chester Bowies, and cultivated the Lovetts and the Luces. Lovett impressed upon Kennedy the importance of choosing a professional Cabinet of "the right people"--people like Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Douglas Dillon. When Kennedy, the Irish Catholic from Boston, replied that he did not know the right people, Lovett told him not to worry, it would all be taken care of. And it was. No statistics dredged up by C. Wright Mills could make the point better than...
...with a classical tragedy, there was no turning back. By 1965, the proud, rational men had "completely lost control," and a bitter Lyndon Johnson was left to watch the Great Society come all unstuck, while only Dean Rusk remained "steadfast" and only Walt Rostow dared offer hopeful predictions "like Rasputin to a Tsar under siege...
...brunt of David Halberstam's criticism. Two of them, Robert McNamara, who left the Defense Department in 1968 to become president of the World Bank, and ex-Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, refused to comment on the book. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now professor of international law at the University of Georgia, had not read the book but told TIME: "I suspect Halberstam's biggest problem was that we didn't base our policy on his reporting from Viet Nam. This amateur psychiatry, talking about things like machismo-if that...
...responsible for helping to steer foreign aid bills through Congress. He appeared at Congressional hearings to advise State Department officials, including then Secretary of State Dean Rusk, about the legal ramifications of aid bills pending before the committees...
...that he did not need to take any dramatic stand on Viet Nam. Rejecting Whalen's speech, he adopted the Vietnamization policy urged by-of all people-Roger Hilsman, the architect of counterinsurgency during the Kennedy Administration. After quitting the State Department because of a disagreement with Dean Rusk, Hilsman was now offering advice to the Republican candidate, and the galling thing was, says Whalen, that Nixon took it. "Such promiscuous brain picking revealed in due course the near vacuum where Nixon's own position should have been...