 In "As I Saw It", Rusk expressed considerable anger at the media's coverage of the Vietnam War, accusing anti-war journalists of "faking" stories and images that portrayed the war in an unflattering light.Rusk spoke about he called the "so-called freedom of the press" as he maintained that journalists from "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" only wrote what their editors told them to write, saying if there was true freedom of the press that both newspapers would have portrayed the war more positively.Despite his hawkish views towards the Soviet Union, Rusk stated during his time as Secretary of State that he never saw any evidence that the Soviet Union planned to invade Western Europe and he "seriously doubted" that it ever would.