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...Dean Rusk, as told to Richard Rusk...
...public face of U.S. diplomacy in the Vietnam era, dour, obdurate Dean Rusk never apologized, rarely explained and, after leaving office in 1969, even declined to write his memoirs. Alienated by that flintiness -- and by the war -- Rusk's son Richard fled home in 1970 for a succession of dead-end jobs in Alaska. He returned 14 years later with a tape recorder and a determination to make his father talk. The result is an affecting mix of diplomatic memory and filial rediscovery...
Richard writes a preface to each section of the book but otherwise lets his father do the recollecting. A clay-poor Georgia farm boy, Dean Rusk tells with self-effacing charm how he hustled to get an education (Davidson and Oxford) and endured World War II service as an infantry staff officer. John Kennedy surprised Rusk, and most everyone else, by making him Secretary of State, and Lyndon Johnson kept him on. The cold war convinced Rusk that free nations must hang together in a nuclear age. So when Communist forces threatened South Vietnam, the Secretary saw no alternative...
Sophomore kicker David Rusk added field goals of 25 and 35 yards as Northeastern won for the third time in four games. It was the second shutout for the Huskies, who blanked Rhode Island 17-0 last weekend after going 64 games without a shutout...
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who did not go to Moscow for the conference but followed it closely, added his agreement, then explained it in his tough, clear fashion. "Evacuation under those circumstances is psychologically impossible," he said. "There is no way you are going to get people to leave their families and intimate friends and colleagues. I've thought about this a good deal, and I think there should be an alternate Government designated out around the country, perhaps using the Governors." A good idea. May there never be the need...