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...their disagreements. Dedicated to consensus politics, not ideology, they seem to be horrified at the thought of rocking the boat or making a scene. When men do quit eventually on principle, they usually tiptoe out on stocking feet, leaving behind bouquets, smiles and warm letters. That is how Dean Acheson bowed out as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933 after a dispute with F.D.R. over fiscal policy. Roosevelt was properly appreciative. Some years later, when another official left with less discretion, sending the White House a sharp criticism of the President's policies, Roosevelt returned the letter with...
Though it was questionable whether further argument would change many votes, the count looked so tight at week's end that there was a spate of last-minute maneuvers. A group of 205 former Supreme Court law clerks, including Dean Acheson, urged Carswell's defeat because of his "mediocrity." In a somewhat ludicrous fumble, California Democrat Alan Cranston charged that a black Government attorney had been forced to write a letter backing Carswell. But Cranston failed to check the story with the lawyer, Charles F. Wilson, who later denied...
...Present at the Creation, Acheson...
NONFICTION 1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Reuben (2) 2. The Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss (1) 3. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (3) 4. Present at the Creation, Acheson (4) 5. The Graham Kerr Cookbook (7) 6. In Someone's Shadow, McKuen (6) 7. The American Heritage Dictionary (5) 8. The Collapse of the Third Republic, Shirer (8) 9. Culture and Commitment, Mead 10. Love and Will...
...that we were wrong," Conant said. "When we made the recommendation, we thought there was a very small chance that the bomb would work. A new development [introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...