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...much more harmful now that it's been captured on tape. (Imagine if we had footage of Forbes eating caviar or McCain losing his cool.) The most telling moment in last Monday's debate grew out of Bush's earlier assertion that he was reading a biography of Dean Acheson. You might have thought he would then take the time to skim the dust jacket, at least. When CNN's Judy Woodruff asked what he had learned from Acheson, Bush neither placed the former Secretary of State in an Administration or with a policy, but blithely clutched at rote nostrums...
...Chait is right, "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House" would be precisely the sort of slogan Bush's campaign should avoid. When reporters ask him questions designed to discover whether he really has read James Chace's biography of Dean Acheson, he shouldn't answer with some foreign-policy boilerplate from his stump speech. He should say, "Couldn't finish it. Too many long words...
...last week's forum in New Hampshire, still relied heavily on recycled passages from his stump speech, and he flunked another of those SATs journalists seem to have taken it upon themselves to give him: Asked what he had learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John...
...Along similar lines, Bush was also asked what books he has read recently. He mentioned a book about Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman, and said he likes mysteries...
Harry Truman's last Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, drove conservative Republicans to spluttering fury. Joe McCarthy jeered at "this pompous diplomat in striped pants." Richard Nixon spoke of Acheson's "Cowardly College of Communist Containment." In retrospect, the abuse seems odd; Acheson proved a tough, decisive realist who welded together the alliance that successfully contained the Soviet bloc until it self-destructed in 1989. Acheson handsomely reproduces the postwar era, the rich supporting cast and a sometimes surprising protagonist who, for all his bespoke elegance and fop's mustache, knew how, occasionally, to throw a punch...