United States, 39.76, -98.5Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994Rusk, Richard1985Dean Rusk (1909-1994), attorney and U.S. Secretary of State, was born in Cherokee County, Georgia. Rusk joined the Department of State from 1947-1952 and Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs and for Far Eastern Affairs. From 1952-1960, he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Rusk to the office of Secretary of State. He remained in this position until 1969. In 1970, he bacme the Samuel H. Sibley Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia, a position he held until his death in 1994.Told by Richard Rusk.Part six of an autobiographical sketch by Dean Rusk, as told to Richard Rusk. Topics include Truman, Adlai Stevenson (in contrast to Truman), foreign policy decision-making, Rusk's service as Secretary of State under John Kennedy (circumstances surrounding Kennedy's assassination, transition to Lyndon Johnson's administration, Rusk's personal reaction to Kennedy's offer of the post, Rusk's working relationship with Kennedy), philosophical and ethical dimensions of policy-making, Arthur Schlesinger, the position of Secretary of State and its demands and responsibilities, the difficulty finding talented people to shape raw information for use by the President and Secretary of State, and Rusk's Role with the Rockefeller Foundation.Related collections in this repository: Dean Rusk Personal Papers, D.W. Brooks Oral History Collection, Martin Hillenbrand Papers.audio/mpegenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Dean Rusk Oral History Collectionhttp://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL214DROH-ead.xmlDean Rusk autobiographical sketch. ca. 1985Sound