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Article: Dean Rusk, '60s Foreign Policy Leader, Dies; Missile Crisis, Vietnam Marked His Career Under Two Presidents
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- The Washington Post
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- December 22, 1994
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Dean Rusk, 85, the former secretary of state who presided with
a calm and courtly demeanor over U.S. foreign policy during a period
of intense division and bitter controversy about U.S. involvement in
the war in Vietnam, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at his
home in Athens, Ga.
Rusk was secretary of state for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
from 1961 to 1969, a period that included the ill-fated Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the signing of the
nuclear nonproliferation treaty with the Soviet Union. Only Cordell
Hull, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of state, served
longer in that office.
Rusk, a mild-mannered and self-effacing ...