Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That reckoning would have included the last two years of the tenure of Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who for that period was generally considered to be a prisoner of his critics...
...through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted to the Senate: two of his closest Washington advisers and firmest supporters are artifacts of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, Dean Acheson and Ben Cohen. "Of all those giant killers running for the presidency," says another Fair Dealer-Wheeler, "Lyndon is the only one who has killed a giant...
Chris Herter's deft, competent performance produced no sensational headlines; yet it added to the image of strength created since he succeeded the late John Foster Dulles a year ago. Lacking the self-assertive flair of Dulles or of Harry Truman's Secretary Dean Acheson, Secretary Herter sometimes seemed to blend invisibly with the antiseptic corridors of the State Department. But despite his self-effacing manner, Herter's certainty of purpose has won growing respect from President Eisenhower, State Department aides and the capital's most critical press corps...
...nation's capital the topic, naturally, was the Democratic White House steeplechase, and two front-row spectators, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Columnist Joseph Alsop, found themselves offering advice and opinion to each other at a Georgetown dinner party. Democrat Acheson made no secret of his partiality to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson as the ablest of all the Democratic presidential candidates. Alsop volunteered: "Why, I'd do anything to make his nomination possible." "Excellent, Joe," retorted Acheson tartly. "Attack...