David Dean Rusk KBE (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. 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. (Click
here for full Wikipedia article)
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Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he
thinks he is secretary of state.
I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much
overrated.
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being
round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at
any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
The best way to persuade people is with your ears- by listening to them.
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the
people in the world are awake.
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.
We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. (re: 1962
Cuban missile crisis)
When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next
one.
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(February 9 is also the birthday of Alice
Walker and Brendan
Behan.)
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