"Aggression from the North"

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By: Dean Rusk

Date: February 27, 1965

Source: Rusk, Dean. "Aggression from the North." State Department White Paper on Vietnam, February 27, 1965. Reproduced in CNN Cold War Historical Documents. Available online at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/documents/... ; website home page: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ (accessed April 2, 2003).

About the Author: Dean Rusk (1909–1994) was born in Cherokee County, Georgia. In 1940, the Rhodes Scholar entered the army as an infantry captain and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1946, he joined the State Department and was appointed assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs in 1950. In 1961, President Lyndon B. Johnson (served 1963–1969) appointed him...

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