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Dean Rusk oral history collection, 1984-1989
The collection consists of oral history interviews with Dean Rusk and his colleagues between 1984-1989.
More About This Collection
Creator
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
Contributor to Resource
Rusk, Richard (interviewer), Schoenbaum, Thomas J. (interviewer)
Date of Original
1984/1989
Subject
United States. Department of State
Rockefeller Foundation
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Korean War, 1950-1953
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
People
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, 34.24393, -84.4762
United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
Medium
oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
Type
Sound
Description
The collection consists of oral history interviews with Dean Rusk and his colleagues between 1984-1989. Includes audiotapes and transcriptions documenting Rusk's life from early childhood in the 1910's through his teaching career in the 1980's. The interviews contain information on Rusk's service as U.S. Under Secretary and Secretary of State during the administrations of Presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson and his involvement in foreign relations including the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. Also documents his position as head of the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1950s.
As I saw it / by Dean Rusk. New York : W.W. Norton, 1990.
Waging peace and war: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson years / by Thomas J. Schoenbaum. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Interviewed by Richard Rusk and Thomas J. Schoenbaum.
Related collections in this repository: Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Dean Rusk collection; Parks Rusk, Dean Rusk collection; and Dean Rusk papers.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
Related materials located in other repositories: Lyndon B. Johnson Library, John F. Kennedy Library, and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Dean Rusk (1909-1994), U.S. Secretary of State (1961-1969), born in Cherokee County, Georgia.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Forms part of: Dean Rusk research collection.
Dean Rusk oral history collection. Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Finding aid available in repository. http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL214DROH-ead.xml
Holding Institution
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
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