Article: Dean Rusk, '60s Foreign Policy Leader, Dies; Missile Crisis, Vietnam Marked His Career Under Two Presidents

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 ...

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