Home wrote to his American counterpart, Dean Rusk, " The prevention of East Berliners getting into West Berlin has never been a casus belli for us.

" In his 1999 book, Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, urban policy consultant David Rusk wrote “… in my view, ( Cisneros was ) the most successful of the ten secretaries of Housing and Urban Development since the cabinet agency was formed in 1965 .” Clinton said Cisneros was a brilliant public servant, and additionally said that people had no idea how much he contributed to the government.

Three thousand troops of the Texas army encamp near Spring Creek, Victoria County, under the command of Gen. Thomas J. Rusk, as the main defense against a threatened attack by Mexican general José de Urrea.

Gen. Juan Almonte, commanding what was left of the organized Mexican resistance, soon formally surrendered his 400 remaining men to Rusk.

When informed that the Alamo had fallen and the Mexican army was moving eastward, Rusk helped President David Burnet to move the government to Harrisburg.

Colonel Thomas Rusk led a group of 15 in an attack on the nearest Mexican cavalry ; as those cavalrymen fled the Texian infantry was able to scramble to cover.

However, the Mexican attack failed to materialize, and Rusk retired.

Rusk also drew the ire of supporters of Israel after he let it be known that he believed the USS Liberty incident was a deliberate attack on the ship, rather than an accident.

According to declassified transcripts of a United States National Security Council meeting on 2 June 1967, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was interrupted by CIA Director Richard Helms that he had reliable information – contrary to Rusk ’ s presentation – that the Israelis would attack on a certain day and time.

Gen Rusk was unable to prove his complicity in the attack.

They discover that Rusk is actually the Red Skull, who has launched a biological weapon attack on America, intending to use the ensuing panic to gain control over America's government and start a war with other countries.

Texas received word that Mexico had rejected the Treaty of Velasco and had sent General José de Urrea to attack Goliad, Rusk immediately rescinded his resignation.

Thomas Rusk also galloped up to the men shouting, " Don't stop ... give ' em hell!

Rusk first saw these glaciers in 1906 they were beginning to retreat, but were still very advanced.

Mr. Rusk should also draw comfort from Sen. Jackson's recommendation that congressional methods of dealing with national security problems be improved.

Secretary Rusk stressed to the Government of Israel that no settlement with Jordan would be accepted by the world community unless it gave Jordan some special position in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A State Department study noted that when King Hussein met on 8 November with Lyndon Johnson, who had been briefed by Secretary Rusk on the US interpretation, the Jordanian Monarch asked how soon the Israeli troops would withdraw from most of the occupied lands.

After the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, Houston was elected to the U. S. Senate, along with Thomas Jefferson Rusk.

Bowles had not survived conflicts with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and his appointment to the White House was partly compensatory.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk later observed that during the Kennedy Presidency neither he nor Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara liked to " get into much discussion " in the NSC with " so many people sitting around the room " and the possibility of leaks so great.

Dean Rusk with President Johnson and Robert McNamara

As he recalled in his autobiography, As I Saw It, Rusk did not have a good relationship with President Kennedy.

Sorensen also noted that the president often expressed impatience with Rusk and felt him under prepared for emergency meetings and crises.

A 1968 Cabinet meeting with Dean Rusk, Lyndon B. Johnson | President Johnson and McNamara

By this time Clifford clearly disagreed with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who believed, according to The Washington Post, " that the war was being won by the allies " and that it " would be won if America had the will to win it.

Rusk County's population was 8, 148 at this time ; it was surpassed only by Harrison County with 11, 822 people.

Its school was consolidated with the Rusk schools in the 1950s, and many of the town's businesses closed.

In January 1853 Senator Thomas Jefferson Rusk of Texas introduced a bill to create two railroads, one with a northern route and one with a southern route starting below Memphis on the Mississippi River.

Most of the city lies in Cherokee County, with only a small portion extending into Rusk County.

Most of the city lies in Rusk County, with only a small part extending into Smith County.

In the 1980s Overton was Rusk County's " second city " with a population of 2, 430 in 1983.

Private Mirabeau B. Lamar, from Georgia ( a future President of the Republic of Texas ), performed so bravely, first saving Thomas J. Rusk and later Walter Lane ( with help from Henry Karnes ), he was promoted to colonel and placed in command of the cavalry.

Houston, urged by Texas Secretary of War Thomas J. Rusk, who had caught up with the militia to consult with Houston at the insistence of President Burnet, began the action.

He got on well with his American and Soviet counterparts, Rusk and Andrei Gromyko.

Rusk started his service with the Union Army during Civil War as major of the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment on August 14, 1862.

In 1967, U. S. Secretary of State and former longtime resident Dean Rusk returned to Scarsdale at the height of the Vietnam War to receive the town's Man of the Year Award and was greeted with a silent protest.

During this time, Maverick and his fellow prisoners sent missives to the Texans with information about the occurrences within the city, with many of them going to his childhood friend Thomas Jefferson Rusk.

Rusk participated with bravery in the defeat of Santa Anna on April 21, 1836, in the Battle of San Jacinto.

David Dean Rusk ( February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994 ) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The property was bequeathed to the Foundation in 1959 under the presidency of Dean Rusk ( who was later to become U. S. President Kennedy's secretary of state ).

Commissioned as a colonel by President David G. Burnet, Ward served under Gen. Thomas J. Rusk.