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Dean David Rusk
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As Secretary of State
Helped deal with the Cuban Missle Crisis, the Arab-Israeli war, the Dominican Republic intervention, the "Pueblo" incident, the closure of border between East and West Berlin, and especially the Vietnam War
Foreign Travels of Secretary of State Dean Rusk
Foreign Relations of the United States:
1961-1963 (vol. 1-24), 1964-1968 (vol. 1-34)
FRUS online
1961-1968
Profile
Born: February 9, 1909
Died: December 20, 1994
Married: Virginia Foisie
Education: Davidson College; Oxford University
Occupation: Public Official
Government Positions
Attained the rank of colonel during World War II
Served as the deputy chief of staff for the Chief-Burma-India theater
Assistant chief of the Department of State's Divisioon of international Security Affairs in 1946
Special assistant to the Secretary of War 1946
Served in the Department of State as director of the Office of Special Political Affairs which later became the Office of United Nations Affairs from 1947-1949
Appointed Deputy Under Secretary of State; in 1950 appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
Notable Events
On the faculty of Mills College, Oakland, California and appointed Dean of Faculty from 1934-1940
President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Professor of International law at the University of Georgia