dean rusk

     

This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked"

Trivia about dean rusk

  • This man who took over Alger Hiss' state dept. duties in 1947 later became JFK's Sec'y of State
  • During the Cuban Missile Crisis, this Sec. of State said, "We're eyeball to eyeball & I think the other fellow just blinked"
  • This Georgia-born Secretary of State served under 2 presidents from 1961 to 1969
  • He took over Alger Hiss' job at the State Department in 1947; 14 years later he was Secretary of State for JFK
  • George Shultz served 7 years in the '80s, the longest run for someone in the post since this man in the '60s
  • JFK's secretary of state, he continued under LBJ
  • In March 1967 Robert Kennedy came up with a nifty Vietnam peace plan, but this Secretary of State rejected it
  • For most of the 1960s, this man was U.S. Secretary of State

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