Dean Rusk 23, 1963, the day after JFK's assassination, Rusk said the US had "much unfinished business" and offered praises for both the late President Kennedy and LBJ while speaking at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. When Lyndon B. Johnson died in 1973, Rusk eulogized the former President when he lay in state. On August 29, 1964, amid the ongoing presidential election, Rusk called for bipartisan support to ensure that the US's foreign policy have both consistency and reliability and said Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater was creating "mischief". The following month, at a September 10 press conference in the main
US Airline Pilots Association controversy surrounding the formation of USAPA and the removal of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) as the bargaining representative for US Airways pilots. This controversy is exclusively centered around the method used to integrate seniority lists from US Airways and America West Airlines after their merger, and has resulted in a division in the ranks between the previous US Airways pilots (often referred to as the East pilots) and the former America West pilots (often referred to as the West pilots). The East and West pilots along with US Airways management signed a Transition Agreement (TA) in 2005. This