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...United States has helped create this situation itself. The text of the note which Diefenbaker objected to so violently was approved by Special Presidential Assistant MacGeorge Bundy, rather than by Secretary Rusk. Bundy does not have a reputation for stupidity, irresponsibility, or extremely poor judgement: one suspects that the note was purposely made offensive in order to force Diefenbaker into an explicit refusal to accept the American weapons...
...list of conferees was impressive: U.S. Ambassadors David Bruce (to Britain), Walter Dowling (West Germany), Foy Kohler (U.S.S.R.). Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Special Trade Envoy Christian Herter. Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Whatever the tenor of their conversations. Kennedy indicated at a press conference that he was not planning any drastic new U.S. action to patch up the alliance...
...budgetary and technical reasons, McNamara made the cancellation announcement without having allowed anyone else time to fit his decision into a coherent foreign policy. The Administration's behavior seemed so muddled because it was essentially a reaction to McNamara's fait accompli. The fact that Secretary of State Dean Rusk and McGeorge Bundy figured nowhere in the affair (as far as the press knows) is cited as supporting evidence. Rusk, in fact, did not even go to Nassau, while McNamara...
...know the feeling you get when you're on top of a mountain"), hopeful that the storm would soon blow over. Instead, it grew worse. President Kennedy agreed to meet Macmillan at Nassau. Kennedy ordered McNamara back from vacation to attend the sessions, which Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...