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Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

President Johnson meeting with National Security Council

Shown in the White House Cabinet Room during a meeting of the National Security Council, are from left to right: Averell Harriman, unidentified, Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara. Others around the table are unidentified. On the far back row from the right: Unidentified, unidentified, James E. Webb, head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, unidentified, Pierre Salinger. All others are unidentified.

A Conversation with Dean Acheson (Eric Sevareid Interviews Dean Acheson)

Eric Sevareid interviews Dean Acheson, who talks about current and past issues. Subjects include the Marshall Mission to China; arms negotiations with the Soviet Union; Acheson's advice to Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam War; the reasons for Truman's support for Israel; Acheson's relations with Truman; Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy; Dean Rusk, Joseph McCarthy, Alger Hiss; and Acheson's rating of recent world figures.

Participants in the Television Program "Battle Report - Washington"

Participants in the television program "Battle Report - Washington" are gathered around John Steelman, Assistant to President Harry S. Truman, seated at the desk. Standin, from left to right are: Major General Thomas White, Major General Lawrence C. Jaynes, Dean Rusk, W. Averell Harriman, and John C. Green. Robert McCormick, NBC's Washington Manager of TV News and Special Events leans on the desk.

President Harry S. Truman at Wake Island

President Harry S. Truman delivering a speech and presenting a Distinguished Service Medal to General Douglas MacArthur. In the foreground, from left to right, facing the camera: Press Secretary Charles Ross, Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, General Robert Landry, Admiral Arthur Radford (partly obscured by Truman), President Truman, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley, General Harry Vaughan, Charles Murphy, David Bell, General Wallace, Graham, and Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk.