Throughout this period the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement were the U.S.’s two main concerns. 2But the “central commitment” alluded to by Rusk changed over the course of those years.
During the Cold War agents of the United States government frequently invoked the Gettysburg Address in an attempt to spread pro-American sentiment across the globe. 1At the centennial commemoration of the Gettysburg Address in its namesake town, Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared, “The central commitments of the American experiment are probably known to more people in other lands through the words of the Gettysburg Address than through those of the Declaration of Independence” (Simon 98).
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