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Reischauer has a very keen sense of his own physical and intellectual limitations--and of where his own speciality should lead him. The stamina of men like Rusk and McNamara amazes him. "These are bone-crushing jobs," he said. In the more limited job of Ambassador, Reischauer at first felt ffihe was "on the edge of a precipice: one false move could cause a catastrophe," and marvels at Rusk's ability to step off a plane after wearying world-wide trips and still make errorless, careful statements to the press...
...violence on both sides that had marked last month's anti-Dean Rusk dustup at the New York Hilton was notably absent. Frustrated by competent cops, who refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
...year approaching, L.B.J. might be inclined to emulate F.D.R., who picked a Republican, Henry Stimson, to head the war effort before the bitterly contested 1940 election campaign. Indeed, the war seems the major catalyst bearing on Johnson's decision-and raises the question whether Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who after seven years in so demanding a post must be as tired as McNamara, might not also be leaving soon...
Though the President has the utmost trust in Rusk, his departure would allay criticism of the Administration as effectively as McNamara's doubtless will -for awhile. Both are damned by dissidents as architects of the war. The all-purpose candidate for either post might well be former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, 48. A Republican who worked for Kennedy and Johnson and was tapped for duty by L.B.J. during the Arab-Israeli war last summer, his vigorous voice is still being raised in effective support of Johnsonian policies...
...injured Vietnamese children) seemed less a medical project than an exorcism of guilt. C.O.R.'s first pleas for help were highly seasoned with mentions of napalm and bombs and inflated casualty statistics. The fledgling organization soon found itself wrangling with experts such as Manhattan's Dr. Howard Rusk, who questioned not only the number of potential patients but also the wisdom of gathering them up in large numbers and sending them for treatment...