Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into exile (to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) by John Foster Dulles in 1953. In 1957 he flirted with "disengagement," i.e., neutralization of Germany" and the disarming of NATO, as a means of reaching a settlement with the Russians. No less a person than his ex-boss, Dean Acheson. slapped him down. "Mr. Kennan has never, in my judgment, grasped the realities of power relationships," said Acheson, "but takes a rather mystical attitude toward them." But Tito's Yugoslavia should give Kennan an ideal opportunity to sense the internal rumblings of international Communism...
...aware that the nation's old allies in Europe have taken little pleasure in the new U.S. attention promised to Africa and South America, the President stated warm, reassuring support for NATO, promised solidly "to maintain our military strength in Europe," and appointed onetime Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a NATO founding father, as chairman of an advisory group that will propose ways to strengthen the treaty organization...
James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
...attracted not only French but wellborn girls of all nationalities. The current Paris roster, she points out, now includes David Niven's twin nieces. Playwright Jean Anouilh's daughter Catherine, Tony Trabert's wife Shawn, along with a princess, a countess, and nieces of Dean Acheson and Paul-Henri Spaak...
...Chairman Fulbright decided that Rusk had "handled himself very well indeed." But the approval seemed to say more for the manner of Rusk's performance than its matter. Observed one veteran viewer of State Secretaries in their appearances before Congress: "He was as intelligent, quick, and knowledgeable as Acheson or Dulles. But he wasn't preachy like Dulles or patronizing like Acheson. Which is all to the good, for those are things that aggravate Senators...