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...same East Coast schools, chatted at the same Georgetown dinner parties and cozily made American foreign policy for decades. Devoted to serving their country, pragmatists rather than ideologues, internationalists with an instinct for the center, they raised nonpartisanship in diplomacy to an art form. Their names: Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, George Kennan, Robert Lovett and John McCloy...
...Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names are forever associated with the policies...
...menace. It was an effective ploy, but it also proved to have unforeseen and cataclysmic consequences. In making their arguments, the sages of Foggy Bottom created a bogeyman fierce enough to frighten America into a war in Viet Nam that the Wise Men came to believe was unnecessary. Acheson was especially acerbic about the turn of events in Southeast Asia. His impression of Lyndon Johnson: "A real centaur -- part man, part horse's ass." Astute political history has rarely been this engaging and engrossing...
Second period--2, C, Alan Tigert 1 (Dave Hunter, Pete Natyashak) 3:57; C, Chris Grenier 9 (Hunter, Natyshak) 8:04; 4, Y, Darren Acheson (Scott Webster, Wood) 10:01. Penalties--C, Mike Schafer, (tripping) 0:56; C, Chris Norton, (slashing) 8:13; Y, Sean Neely, (slashing) 8:13; C, Norton, (interference...
...part of the President's political ascendancy lay in sensing that Government needed to become a forum of denial. The late Dean Acheson defined it as the necessity of "administering scarcity." Joe Califano, who under Johnson and Carter helped design this huge Government, foresaw a time when the cost of programs would outstrip the nation's ability to pay for them. Learning to think small, Califano warned six years ago, could be a traumatic experience...