Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 20:32:47 CDT
From: <U56503@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton
Subject: ==> Clinton Endorsed By Dean Rusk, Former Sec. of State

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 For Immediate Release
 October 9,1992
 Dean Rusk, Former Secretary of State for Presidents Kennedy and
 Johnson,
 Endorses Governor Bill Clinton For President

 I am pleased to add my name today to those endorsing Governor Bill
 Clinton for President.  Living here in nearby Georgia, I have been
 impressed by his leadership of the State of Arkansas.  For the
 post-Cold War era, I believe that Governor Clinton has the
 experience, the vision, and the energy to revitalize America.

 As I watch Bill Clinton, I am reminded of the three Presidents whom I
 served.  First, President Truman, whose abiding faith in America's
 essential decency, like Governor Clinton, was drawn from long service
 to the people of his state before he came to Washington.

 Second, President Kennedy.  Governor Clinton's youthful vigor and
 vision for the renewal of America reminds me greatly of our 35th
 President, whose courage and intelligence so inspired America.

 And finally, President Johnson, whose passion for justice advanced
 the cause of racial equality in America.  Like President Johnson,
 Governor Clinton comes to his commitment for racial equality out of
 his own experiences growing up, as I did many years ago, in the soil
 of the South.

 Few Presidents first come to the Oval Office with significant foreign
 policy experience.  What is vital is not to know what other nations
 think but to have a deep and abiding understanding of what America's
 purposes are in the world.  These are:

    a world free of aggression - aggression by whatever means;

    a world of independent nations, each with institutions of its
    own choice but cooperating with one and other to mutual advantage;

    a world which yields continuing progress in economic and social
    justice for all peoples;

    a world which provides sure and equitable means for the peaceful
    settlement or disputes and moves progressively toward a rule of
    law which lays down and enforces standards of conduct in relations
    between nations;

    a world in which, in the great tradition shared by peoples in
    every continent, governments derive "their just powers from the
    consent of the governed;"

    a world in which the powers of the state over the individual are
    limited by law, practice and custom - in which the personal
    freedoms essential to the dignity of man are secure.

 I believe that Governor Clinton has a deep understanding and
 commitment to America's purposes.

 The revolution of freedom, which we have so proudly nurtured and
 fought for in the past, is the true, enduring revolution.  The
 American people have made great sacrifices and have paid a heavy
 price in this century of struggle against totalitarianism.  For the
 Twenty-First Century our best foreign policy will be a strong,
 economically dynamic, racially just America.

 I believe Governor Clinton will be the President to shape that
 foreign policy for the next generation.
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