Search results
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early ...
Dean Rusk (born February 9, 1909, Cherokee county, Georgia, U.S.—died December 20, 1994, Athens, Georgia) was the U.S. secretary of state during the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson administrations who became a target of antiwar hostility as he consistently defended the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War.
David Dean Rusk served as Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Rusk entered into duty as Secretary on January 21, 1961, and resigned on January 20, 1969.
Oct 20, 2003 · Dean Rusk served as U.S. secretary of state from 1961 to 1969, the second longest tenure in that office (after Cordell Hull, 1933-44). He was only the second Georgian to be named to the office; the first was John Forsyth in 1833.
Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was the United States Secretary of State between 1961 and 1969. Rusk was born in rural Georgia, attended college in North Carolina and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
Dec 22, 1994 · Dean Rusk, who as Secretary of State for President Kennedy and President Johnson became a stubborn if much-criticized defender of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, died Tuesday at...
Under the Kennedy administration, McNamara was closely aligned with Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State, with both favoring greater American support for South Vietnam. [59]
Discover Dean Rusk famous and rare quotes. Share Dean Rusk quotations about giving. "One of the best ways to persuade others..."
Dec 22, 1994 · Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who rose from the poverty of a tiny tenant farm in Georgia to the heights of American diplomacy only to come under savage attack for his role in the...
In the beginning at least, Rusk was the best of the worst, the least enthusiastic of the Kennedy-Johnson policy-makers. Yet he became one of the worst-the loyal minister. who saw Benedict Arnolds in those who first. supported the, President's war policies but then changed their minds.
