Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court, that "the President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations." As he sees it, his job is to act as adviser, briefing officer and administrator for the President, not as an initiator of policy in the tradition of John Foster Dulles or Dean Acheson. "It is possible," he once said, "for the President to delegate too much power to his Secretary of State." Under Kennedy, there was no such danger-the late President was in some ways his own Secretary of State, and had assembled a "little State Department" in the White House under...
Among these are such elder statesmen as Dean Acheson, 70, to whose acerbic tongue Kennedy liked to listen -but whose advice he did not often accept. Then there are Benjamin Cohen, 69, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James H. Rowe, 54, now a Washington law partner of Corcoran's and a longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman...
...made to a defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state papers, The Pattern of Responsibility, and written a foreward pointedly rebutting McCarthy's diatribes...
...destruction of New York is the certain counterblow? Probably not, reason many Germans. And if the Russians reached the same conclusion, it would serve as a downright invitation to them to try. If the U.S. concedes unchallenged conventional superiority to the Russians, argued former Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a German-Ameri can Club meeting in Bonn last week, the Russians might be able to rack up a series of small but important "profits" in Europe, "without setting off a nuclear response...
Liberals generally rate fairly low: Pundit Norman Cousins has a three-minute McL-C, Dean Acheson a coefficient of ten minutes, but McLandress gives President Kennedy a rating of 29 minutes. Elizabeth Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev and David Susskind all have the same coefficient: three minutes...