Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Present at the creation." That was how Dean Acheson, Harry Truman's Secretary of State, described the crucial role of American officials in the birth of postwar Europe. Conceiving the Marshall Plan and midwifing NATO, U.S. officials went on to deploy America's power at its zenith to shape the framework of European security for two generations...
...Dean Acheson compared the task of his fellow statesmen at the end of World War II to the one described in the first chapter of the Bible. "That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material." The genesis that is now at hand may be just as formidable, because it involves transcending not chaos but a rigid order...
...seminal documents of the cold war ("The Kremlin is inescapably militant"). Nitze supervised the preparation of NSC-68 as director of the State Department's policy planning staff. His desk was only a conference room away from that of his friend and boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His office in Foggy Bottom today, its walls decorated with memorabilia and impressionist art, is almost as close to George Shultz...
...Nitze has long believed that "working the problem" of the Soviet challenge also requires dogged and imaginative diplomacy. As a result, he has occasionally aroused the suspicion and enmity of the right. The McCarthyite press attacked him in the early '50s because of his association with the "Red Dean," Acheson, and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond tried, in vain, to prevent his confirmation to the Navy job a decade later...
...more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about America's stake in the Persian Gulf could provide the same candid insight that is available in Dean Acheson's letters to his daughter on the same subject during the Iranian crisis 41 years...