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...weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked William Rogers, the Secretary of State-designate, to elicit Richard Nixon's views on the U.S. stand. Rogers complied and later advised the State Department that the incoming administration fully supported the compromise advocated by Johnson's outgoing team...
Splurge. The agreement came in "letters of intent" from the Japan Iron & Steel Exporters' Association and the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community. In addition, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that other leading steel producers, presumably Britain and Canada, are expected to hold down their exports. As a result, Rusk added, U.S. steel imports-which soared to 17.5 million tons in 1968-will be limited to 14 million tons this year, 14.7 million in 1970 and 15.4 million...
...unquestioning alliance with Israel. The raid could also make it politically easier for President-elect Richard Nixon to pursue a more even-handed policy in the Middle East, if he should so decide. In what might almost have been a preview of such a policy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week called on the Arab states to "do their utmost to restrain terrorist activity," and on Israel "to recognize that a policy of excessive retaliation will not produce the peace that Israel surely desires...
Unfortunately, this time the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department are all split themselves. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau. In the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency are assembling a rosy picture of a seriously weakened enemy and a greatly improved South Vietnamese military machine, a vision shared by U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams and his headquarters in Saigon. But the Defense Department's civilian...
...privacy of Lyndon Johnson's bedroom, at policymaking luncheons on Tuesdays, in the upstairs dining room of the White House and at meetings of the Cabinet, Clifford pressed his view relentlessly, singlemindedly-and often singlehanded. He was opposed by such experienced, committed experts as Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. He also had to face down the President's enigmatic silences. At stake, he believed, was the survival...