Editing Dean Rusk (section)

===Rusk family issues===
Rusk's support for the Vietnam War caused considerable torment for his son [[Richard Rusk|Richard]], who was opposed to the war but who enlisted in the Marine Corps and refused to attend anti-war demonstrations out of love for his father.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Herring |first1=George |title=Rusks on Rusk: A Georgian's Life as Collaborative Autobiography |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |date=Spring 1992 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=64–66}}</ref> The psychological strain caused the younger Rusk to suffer a nervous breakdown and led to a break between father and son.<ref name="Rusks on Rusk64" />

Rusk considered resignation in the summer of 1967, because "his daughter planned to marry a black classmate at Stanford University, and he could not impose such a political burden on the president",<ref>''In Retrospect''. Robert McNamara, pg.&nbsp;282</ref> after it became known that his daughter, Peggy, planned to marry Guy Smith,<ref name="Romano"/> "a black Georgetown grad working at NASA".<ref>{{cite news|last=Rick|first=Frank|title=Guess Who's Coming to Dinner|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2006|page=W-10}}</ref> In response, the ''[[Richmond News Leader]]'' stated that it found the wedding offensive, further saying that "anything which diminishes [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070214085644/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943987,00.html "Boy, Girl, Black, White"]. ''Time''. April 6, 1970.</ref>  He decided not to resign after talking to McNamara and the president.<ref>{{cite book |last=McNamara |first=Robert S. |title=In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam |year=1995 |publisher=[[Random House]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/inretrospecttrag00mcna/page/282 282] |isbn=0-8129-2523-8 |quote=It may be hard for readers today to understand what went through his mind. But it was very clear to me at the time: he believed that because he was a southerner, working for a southern president, such a marriage – if he did not resign or stop it – would bring down immense criticism on both him and the president.&nbsp;... [T]he president reacted as I expected – with congratulations for the impending marriage.  So far as I was aware, the marriage had absolutely no effect – political or personal – on Dean or the president. |url=https://archive.org/details/inretrospecttrag00mcna/page/282 }}</ref> A year after his daughter's wedding, Rusk was invited to join the faculty of the [[University of Georgia Law School]], only to have his appointment denounced by Roy Harris, an ally of Alabama Governor George Wallace and a member of the university's board of regents, who stated that his opposition was because of Peggy Rusk's interracial marriage. The university nonetheless appointed Rusk to the position.<ref name="Romano">{{cite book|last=Romano|first=Renée Christine|title=Race Mixing|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780674010338|url-access=registration|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2003|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780674010338/page/204 204–205]|isbn=9780674010338}}</ref>