We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

About Dean Rusk

David Dean Ruskwas the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early 1950s, as well as the head of a leading foundation.

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