Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk
David Dean Ruskwas the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Rusk is the joint-second-longest serving U.S. Secretary of State of all time, behind only Cordell Hull and tied with William H. Seward...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1909
CityCherokee County, GA
CountryUnited States of America
war thinking cuban-missile-crisis
We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.
thinking giving machines
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state
british canadians flags flying hard india joint people pressed
I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.
gives kicked states tried united
We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
fellow
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
fellow
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
change pay firsts
If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
air doe situation
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
life advice way
The best way to persuade is with your ears.
giving cows milk
The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks
evil people half
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
sleep two world
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
peace world matter
The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.
rights citizens georgia
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.