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RUSK
RUSK
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David Dean Rusk (1909 - )
American
statesman
; president of the
Rockefeller
Foundation
(1952 - 1960), US
secretary of state
(1961 - 1969) under Presidents
Kennedy
and
Johnson
. He took a leading role in negotiating for the
nuclear
test
ban
treaty (1963) but was a prominent
advocate
of the
Vietnam
war
(1954 - 1975).
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