Word: achesonism
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...Constitution is not concerned with the presidency at all (that's covered in Article II), but the legislature. In constitutional terms, Congress is a "co-equal" branch of government; it has real power, and so do its most significant members. Just as the wise men - Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson and the like - who remade international institutions at the end of World War II would not have been able to do what they did without the assistance of Arthur Vandenberg, the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, so reform of the financial system today cannot bypass Representative Barney Frank...
...difference between the end of World War II and the end of the Cold War cannot simply be one of personality. Those who put together the international settlement after 1945 - Harry Truman, George Marshall, Dean Acheson and the like - were indeed, in the title of a marvelous book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men. They were aware of their responsibilities and understood that American power would best be protected if it was shared in a network of institutions that made up a new liberal international order. Granted, George Bush is no Truman, nor Condoleezza Rice a Marshall...
...Each set of questions just multiplies into a fan of information that has to be sorted through to understand where the links cross over," says Acheson. Although the FDA has managed to rule out some regions - northern Florida is safe because its tomatoes weren't ready for harvest at the time of the outbreak - it will be some time until the true source is found. "We're not quite there yet," says Acheson, "but we're getting very close." But Dr. Ian Williams, chief of the CDC's OutbreakNet team, warns that the source may never be found...
...unveiled a tomato-safety initiative in 2007 that sought to identify causes of salmonella infection, but Acheson admits that studying preventive techniques doesn't help the FDA deal with outbreaks. The FDA has no plans to change the initiative in the face of the recent outbreak...
...source of the outbreak, it's hard for consumers to know where their tomatoes are grown. Certain imported foods are required to carry country-of-origin labels, but that doesn't apply to domestic produce. "I'm not aware of any tomato outbreak that was not domestic," says Acheson. There is no such thing as a mandatory state-of-origin label for food, and federal authorities have yet to create such a law. "Saying 'product of the U.S.' isn't necessarily going to confer safety," he says. So much for reassurance...