Word: achesonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state, "If the silent center in the U.S. can find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee . . ." For "silent center" read "senior citizen" apropos of the ages of the founders: Dean Acheson, 74; Omar Bradley, 74; James F. Byrnes, 88; Lucius Clay, 70; James Bryant Conant, 74; Paul Douglas, 75; Dwight Eisenhower, 77; Harry Truman, 83, etc. EVERETT THIELE Baltimore
Among the committee's 100 or so founders are some of the nation's most illustrious figures. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower belong; so do Dean Acheson and James F. Byrnes-thus accounting for every living former President and Secretary of State. Dwight Eisenhower's last Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates is a member, as are A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, General Lucius D. Clay, former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, ex-Governor Pat Brown of California and retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
Bucolic Virtues. Morgenthau labeled as a fallacy the argument of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson and such State Department planners as Dean Acheson that Europe's economic health depended on German industrial production. By closing down the Ruhr and Saar, he argued, the Allies could revive the flagging industry of France, Belgium and Britain. As for the millions of Germans who would be left unemployed by such moves, Morgenthau said: "Sure, it is a terrific problem. Let the Germans solve it. Why the hell should I worry about what happens to their people?" As a farmer, Morgenthau firmly believed...
...general thing only guidance from men of this rank within the government would encourage Reston or any other reporter to write with such confidence about so sensitive a matter, although more easily than most reporters Reston can draw on trusted Presidential advisors outside the government like Dean Acheson and Clark Clifford...
Shulman is now professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. From 1950 to 1953, he was a special director to Dean Acheson, then Secretary of State. He was associate director of the Russian Center from...