Word: achesonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...known to his brethren, grated on some of them as a hyperactive pedant: he charmed others as the most rewarding friend of their lives. He was insatiably curious; he knew everyone, read everything. He talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have one's arm numbed by his viselike grip just above one's elbow, to feel the intensity of his nervous energy. Above...
...bomb's proponents-AEC Commissioner Lewis Strauss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator Brien MacMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy-carried the day with Truman, and the possibility of falling behind in the arms race was narrowly averted. In spite of his stand on the H-bomb, Lilienthal had no use for appeasement or unilateral disarmament. In answer to one proposal to surrender rather than use the bomb, Lilienthal commented: "It isn't important how long one lives; what is important is that while he lives, he lives...
...Foreign Relations of the Senate-if the Republicans come to power-Mr. Hickenlooper. Our own Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. Our Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara. Our Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Douglas Dillon. One of the great leaders of our time, the former Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. Mr. Lewis Douglas, former Ambassador to Great Britain. Now Lew, you stand up a little longer. There are some girls down here who didn...
Always ready with a sharply focused view of U.S. foreign affairs-and the words to express it-is Dean Acheson, ex-Secretary of State and now a Johnson Administration troubleshooter. At Amherst College in Massachusetts last week Acheson gave his version of how to achieve an effective foreign policy. Excerpts...
Hopeful Strategy. With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, a young member of Dean Acheson's law firm named Peter Hutt is determined to find an escape from this maze by getting an appellate court to rule (as the Supreme Court did in 1962 regarding narcotics addicts) that it is unconstitutional to jail victims of a "disease' over which they have no control. As Hutt sees it, this might force Congres; to provide decent treatment facilities Unhappily for Hutt, Washington's Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King believes that Congress will fail...