Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The greatest problem of all, Rusk believes, will be the continuing conflict with Communism: "I expect the struggle to be dynamic and intense."
¶ On Stevenson's appointment to the United Nations: "The chief of the U.N. should be comparable in ability and standing to the Secretary of State himself."
¶ On Policies: "The effectiveness of a policy is the readiness of the country to sustain it."
¶ I On Working with the President: "The Secretary of State cannot get intimate with the President unless they work at it -and unless they're both in town."
To prevail in that struggle, Rusk believes, the U.S. needs only to remember, in effect, that the Eagle has two claws. The U.S., he says, "is not a raft tossed by the winds and waves of historical forces over which it has little control. Its dynamic power, physical and ideological...