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...since renamed Flowery Mound). He worked his way through the University of Oklahoma, made the wrestling team, the debating team and produced a brilliant scholastic record in government, his major field. He won a Rhodes scholarship in 1931, took two law degrees at Oxford, where Secretary of State Dean Rusk was one of his classmates. Albert worked as a lawyer for several oil firms until 1940, briefly set up a private practice in McAlester, Okla., his home town. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army. Assigned briefly to Washington, he met and married a Pentagon clerk named Mary Harmon...
Contrary to public-opinion polls, which have suggested apathy and ignorance about Viet Nam, Congressman after Congressman returned to Washington after the Christmas holidays convinced that the voters are profoundly concerned. When Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week briefed the House Foreign Affairs Committee, one member interrupted him: "You'd damn well better find a solution to this in the next two years, because that is about all the time the American public is going to give...
Foreign Challenge. While the state of Lyndon thus seemed to be as sound as the State of the Union, the same could not be said for the shape of U.S. foreign relations. One of the President's visitors at the ranch was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who flew down to brief him on the latest turns in the perennial Viet Nam crisis. One prominent White House wit held that the mess in Viet Nam was no worse than the mess inside the Republican Party, but the joke really wasn't very funny. The fact is that...
After the meeting, the U.S. line was that MLF had been "neither advanced nor retarded." That was nonsense. It had indeed been retarded and, to all intents and purposes, sunk in its original form. The fact became clear when Secretary of State Dean Rusk was still arguing the MLF case in Paris while in Washington President Johnson casually remarked that the U.S. was "not committed" and would consider "modifications." The Europeans regarded this as the year's most spectacular rug-pulling operation. But it was also a sound decision not to wreck the Western Alliance by trying to force...
...separate talks with Dean Rusk, De Gaulle again explained his vision of a United States of Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, with Western Europe serving as a magnet to the rest of the now largely Communist continent. If Western Europe is too closely linked to the U.S. and locked in a tight Atlantic world, argued De Gaulle, it would be unable to serve this centripetal function, since countries such as Rumania, already showing signs of loosening their ties to Moscow, are simply not part of the Atlantic world. It was perhaps the most cogent argument yet offered...