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...save us from Dean Rusk [Feb. 4] in Viet Nam and God save us from TIME, should you continue your favorable treatment of incompetents like Rusk, McNamara and the others of their ilk in the Executive Branch...
...Your country's motivation for its participation in Viet Nam, as so frequently defined by Dean Rusk, is impeccable. Its validity is the issue that worries many a Vietnik. Perhaps Hanoi would agree to halt infiltration while a U.N. plebiscite dispelled suspicion that the present South Viet Nam government is not the people's choice...
Gentle Reminder. The following day could only have added to Fulbright's frustration. After the soldier-scholar came the scholarly statesman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. In a 50-page opening statement that filched 43 minutes of air time from camera-covetous committee members, Rusk argued in dry, dispassionate terms that the entire structure of world peace is endangered by the Communist threat to South Viet Nam. "What we are seeking to achieve," he said, "is part of a process that has continued for a long time-a process of preventing the expansion of Communist domination...
...Rusk cited two major documents as legal justification for U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. One was the congressionally approved 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, authorizing the President to take "all necessary measures" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. The other was the 1954 Southeast Asia Treaty...
...broadcast from Peking, the New China News Agency cited Rusk's refusal to state any limit on American military involvement in South Vietnam at Friday's hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as proof that "U.S. imperialism is determined to seize South Vietnam by force...