Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dealers. Thomas Corcoran, when he was not redesigning the Government 40 years ago, used to play the accordion for Franklin Roosevelt out at Joe Kennedy's place. Robert McNamara, John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, attended, and so did Mrs. Dean Acheson, the widow of Harry Truman's Secretary of State...
...Washington in 1946 as the junior partner of his brother Joseph in their syndicated newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in a unique position. While more mundane journalists attended press conferences, the Alsops lunched with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just wasted...
...Dean Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist containment...
...interesting disorderly house in Washington," an admiring guest once noted. Visitors encounter thousands of stacked books, a calendar of personal engagements from 1907, a 15-ft. tiger skin that was a gift from the Dowager Empress of China, a drawing of a Chinese tiger (she calls the beast "Dean Acheson" and notes, "He loved it when I said it looked like him"), an African voodoo mask slipped over the head of a replica of the Statue of Liberty...
EVERYONE KNEW that Johnson, a man of enormous talent and capability, felt out of place among the Ivy League Acheson-types. Insecure, he demanded enthusiastic support and judged all opinions by the "loyalty" or "disloyalty" of their proponents...