DEAN RUSK ENDORSES CLINTON: Statement - 10/9/92 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. -30-30-30-