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Then, to no one's surprise, Lyndon Johnson unveiled a program. Said he: "I have directed a special task force within my Administration to recommend a broad and long-range plan of worldwide educational endeavor." The group will be headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, will include Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner. Though Johnson gave few details, he envisioned stepped-up exchanges of students and teachers and an increased "flow of books and ideas and art, of works of science and imagination." He delicately refrained from quoting the price of his latest...
...when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...
...insult long enough to test the new President's response. It was straightforward and unequivocal: no under-the-table money at all, economic assistance only on its merits-and only if it was clearly not a quid pro quo for the spy's release. Secretary of State Rusk sent Lee an apology, and Lee let the agent go without fanfare...
...unclear just how the U.S. could verify such a withdrawal, if it took place, or how the Reds could be kept from sneaking another division over the sievelike border to replace it. Nor was it clear whether Hanoi was even interested in bargaining. "Thus far," said Dean Rusk, "my antennae have not picked up the key signal...
President Johnson, in an emphatic press-conference statement, came to the defense of his Secretary of State, and Schlesinger's onslaught seems to have left Rusk more secure in his job than ever. At a briefing for more than 130 Congressmen last week, Rusk got an unexpected standing ovation; and at a White House dinner for 100 business men, he got by far the greatest salvo of applause...