Dean Rusk (#202)

An Inventory of His Personal Papers
At the John F. Kennedy Library
National Archives and Records Administration

Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Description
 

Administrative Information

Abstract
Papers 1961-63
Diplomat, government official. Secretary of State (1961-69). Copies of appointment books.

Access
Open.

Usage Restrictions
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Provenance
Received from Johnson Presidential Library of Austin, TX, in August 1970 (Acc. 1971-001).

Extent
2 rolls of microfilm.

Date Opened
1971.

Encoded by
James M. Roth

Updated by
Finding aid created by Corey Brooks in June 2002.

Related Collections
U.S. Department of State, Records Collection
Rusk, (David) Dean, Sound recordings 1961-68, Audiovisual Archives
Rusk, (David) Dean, Oral History Interviews.
 
 

The Personal Papers of (David) Dean Rusk

Biographical Note
(David) Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was born in Cherokee County, Georgia.  After graduating from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1931, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, earning his B.S. at St. John’s College, Oxford in 1933.  The following year he earned his M.A. and went to Mills College where he worked until 1940 in the capacities of Associate Professor of Government and Dean of the Faculty.  In 1940, he entered the United States Army, serving for six years.  Following his military service, Rusk first entered the political sphere as the chief of the U.S. State Department’s Division of International Security Affairs.  Between 1946 and 1952 he held the following appointive positions: special assistant to the Secretary of War, 1946-1947; director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of U.N. Affairs; Deputy Undersecretary of State, 1949-1950; assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs, 1950-1951.  During the Eisenhower administration, Rusk left politics and became president of the Rockefeller Foundation.  When Kennedy was elected president, Rusk reentered public life as Secretary of State, a position he held throughout the entire Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.  Following Nixon’s inauguration in 1969 Rusk returned to academia, teaching international law at the Law School of the University of Georgia from 1970 until his death in 1994.

Source:  Who Was Who in America .  New Providence, New Jersey: Who’s Who, 1998, 216.



Collection Overview
Microfilmed copies of Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s appointment books for 1961, 1962, and 1963.  The books include only minimal detail, listing times and participants of Rusk’s daily meetings, as well as occasionally mentioning the place where the meeting was held or the general topic of the meeting.  The appointment books were apparently only used at Rusk’s office in Washington, as days when he was not in the office are left blank excepting a note recording his absence or the foreign city he was visiting.  In addition to the appointment books, there are also a few other documents, including lists of correspondents invited to Background Press Conferences, flight itineraries, and a guest list for a 7 March 1963 ceremony for new members of the Board on Foreign Scholarships.  The bulk of the additional documents are notices from the State Department’s Office of the Secretary, briefly expanding on certain meetings listed in the appointment books, typically including the topic of discussion, time, location, and a list of all expected to be present.  A greater number of these notices appear in the 1963 appointment book than in those of the previous two years.



Description

Series 1. Appointment Books, 1961-1963.
Arrangement: chronological.

Three appointment books on 2 rolls of microfilm.