Word: acheson
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...postwar world, should it return to the familiar isolationism that would insulate it from dangers abroad? Or should it continue to intervene in world affairs with the awesome power at its disposal? The U.S. chose the activist path, and the man who embodied that choice was Dean Gooderham Acheson, first as an influential Assistant and Under Secretary of State and then as Secretary. Every step that Dean Acheson took was dogged by criticism, and it is a measure of the man that, when he died last week at 78 of a heart attack, he remained scarcely less controversial. Some praised...
With a characteristic lack of false modesty, Acheson entitled his memoirs Present at the Creation. Yet he was not unduly exaggerating. His policies did indeed constitute a kind of creation. During World War II, the U.S. had done little postwar planning. It fell to the Truman Administration to improvise some semblance of international order. With audacious speed, one major-policy decision followed another; in each, Acheson assumed leadership. Economic and military aid were sent, after a strenuous domestic battle, to Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan was formulated to revive the prostrate European economy. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...since John Maynard Keynes, Dean Acheson, Henry Morgenthau and politico-economic experts from 45 other countries huddled in the little New Hampshire resort town of Bretton Woods in 1944 has there been a monetary meeting like the one convening in Washington this week. John Connally, the tough but still charming Texan, will be there as the chief attraction, if one can put it that way. So will assorted treasury chiefs, finance ministers and central bankers-France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Germany's Karl Schiller, Italy's Guido Carli. Like their predecessors at Bretton...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson insisted that the press should not have printed the papers before checking with Government officials. There is a duty to do so, wrote Acheson on the Times Op-Ed page, and quoting Chief Justice Warren Burger, he noted that "this duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." Citing the British system as a good example, Acheson advocated a "severe Official Secrets Act" and a "self-governing body for the press" to stimulate more "self-restraint." He quoted Samuel Johnson's advice to Boswell not "to think foolishly...
...quickly wearied of the hard sell. John J. McCloy, who was once considered unofficial president of the Eastern Establishment, grew so restless during a long lecture by Nixon that he started flipping his pencil into the air. Finally, by one participant's account, he blurted out to Dean Acheson: "Why, this man is telling us things that we all knew when he was still in those dreadful California suits." When Nixon called for a break to have a group picture taken, Acheson added to the snobbery of the occasion: "No, Mr. President," he commanded, "we will not have...