Word: acheson
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...deft and prudent player of the good cards dealt him by the collapse of communism. But in a fragmented and challenging new world, American foreign policy needs a conceptual overhaul, the kind of coherent vision that it got in a simpler past from such men as Dean Acheson and George Kennan. A seat-of-the- pants approach to international relations, even one with its share of ! short-term successes, will not preserve American leadership...
...came by his stature the honest way. A successful St. Louis lawyer before World War II, Clifford was called to the White House in 1945 as assistant to Harry Truman's naval aide. He was soon named special counsel to the President. No less than Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Clifford was present at the creation of the policies and institutions that won the cold war: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Department of Defense, NATO...