- Collection:
- Dean Rusk oral history collection, 1984-1989
- Title:
- Dean Rusk and William Bundy. 1985 Feb.
- Creator:
- Bundy, William P., 1917-2000
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
Rusk, Richard - Date of Original:
- 1985-02
- Subject:
- United States Military policy
CBS Inc
United States
Diplomatic relations
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States
United States--Foreign relations
Military policy - People:
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
Vietnam, 16.16667, 107.83333 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- In this interview, Dean Rusk and Bundy describe U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. They discuss Johnson's bombing targeting policy and its effect as an incentive for North Vietnam to negotiate. They contrasts the Johnson and Nixon administrations. He also discusses the trial of General William Westmoreland and CBS.
Related materials located in other repositories: U.S. Dept. of State Records, 1961-1968, National Archives and Records Administration, Chevy Chase, Md.; John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass.; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Tex.
Related collections in this repository: Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Dean Rusk collection; Parks Rusk collection; and Dean Rusk personal papers.
Dean Rusk (1909-1994), attorney, U.S. Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia. Rusk joined the Department of State from 1947-1952 as 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 became the Samuel H. Sibley Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia, a position he held until his death in 1994.
Interviewed by Richard Rusk. - Metadata URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL214DROH-RuskPP/ohms
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use). Parties interested in production or commercial use of the resources should contact the Russell Library for a fee schedule.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Dean Rusk Oral History Collection, OH Rusk PP, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
- Extent:
- 1 interview (64 min.) : digital, stereo
- Original Collection:
- Dean Rusk Oral History Collection
http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL214DROH-ead.xml - Holding Institution:
- Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
- Rights:
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