The Washington Post, June 26th, 1988
WAGING PEACE AND WAR Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson Years By Thomas J. Schoenbaum Simon and Schuster. 592 pp. $22.95 WHEN in 1960 John F. Kennedy picked Dean Rusk to be secretary of state, the soft-spoken Georgian was not his first choice. Kennedy would have preferred William Fulbright and actually asked Robert Lovett who turned him down. So he turned to Rusk, everybody's second choice. Once in office, amid the grandees of the New Frontier, Rusk stood apart: he didn't go to parties, he was secretive. Camelot's colors did not flutter brightly from his lance. Years later, after as...
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