 In 1984, Rusk's son Richard, whom he had not spoken to since 1970 owing to the opposition of Rusk "fils" to the Vietnam War, surprised his father by returning to Georgia from Alaska to seek a reconciliation.As part of the reconciliation process, Rusk who had gone blind by this point, agreed to dictate his memoirs to his son who recorded what he said and wrote it down into what became the book "As I Saw It".In a review of his memoir "As I Saw It", the American historian Warren Cohen noted little of the acrimony of his relations with McNamara, Bundy and Fulbright appeared, but that Rusk was unremitting hostile in his picture of Kennedy's closest adviser and right-hand man, his younger brother Robert together with the UN Secretary General U Thant.