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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, the Foreign Minister, was in New York City at a United Nations session. He was invited by Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Washington. Our position was neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of missiles, but in answer to a direct question, we would deny. Later we were accused of perfidy and dishonesty. Look who was making this accusation -- the U.S., which had us encircled with its own military bases! We were just copying the methods used by our adversaries. Besides, we had both a legal and moral right to make an agreement with Cuba...
...Rusk told Gromyko, "We know everything...
...Rusk said, "We'll see this through to the end. Tell Khrushchev we wish we could prevent all this from occurring, but anything may happen." In a word, he exerted pressure on us -- although I wouldn't go so far as to call it a threat; he appealed to us to do something to head off a confrontation...
Americans initially greet almost any military mission by rallying around the President and the flag. It is almost an involuntary reflex. That was even true of Vietnam. "That's usually the way it is at the beginning of these affairs," Dean Rusk, 81, says with a philosophical wariness. As Secretary of State during the Johnson Administration, Rusk watched the radical turning of ; public opinion against the war in Southeast Asia. "If this ((conflict in the gulf)) drags on," Rusk says, and if there are American casualties, "things may change...
...underestimated his son's patience. After five years of taping and editing, the Rusks still disagree over the war. But the father Richard allows to emerge from the minutiae of diplomacy is a role model for any boy: modest, confident, quietly effective and loyal to his bosses and his principles. "I won't be around for history's verdict," says Rusk, now 81 and ailing in his Georgia retirement, "and I am perfectly relaxed about...