Word: achesonism
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...specifics of dealing with the Russians, the Kennedy Administration has compiled fully 54 separate proposals for Berlin, covering a wide assortment of contingencies. To make sure he got a variety of ideas, Kennedy requested memoranda on Berlin from many New Frontiersmen, including U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Adviser Dean Acheson, Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Kennan, and State Under Secretary Chester Bowles...
...planning for Berlin, endorsed by both Taylor and Adviser Dean Acheson, calls for the U.S. to be prepared to fight a limited war, instead of devastating Russia with H-bombs as soon as a Soviet soldier fires the first rifle shot. The Administration's reasoning: a limited war against Russia would leave the situation flexible enough so that general war might be averted. Many U.S. officials argue that, by definition, it would be impossible for two great powers such as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to fight a limited war. But Taylor has long claimed that a limited...
...Hiss case was not confined to the sentencing of one man and the vindication of another. During the hearings, President Harry Truman charged that the whole affair was a Republican-plotted "red herring"-and his quip became a political boomerang, evidence that the Democrats were "soft on Communism." Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, insisted stubbornly that he would not "turn his back on Alger Hiss"-and came under political attack that seriously curbed his effectiveness. A young California Congressman named Richard Nixon became a national figure by prying information out of the reluctant witness...
...year's end. Weighing each word with infinite care, Washington labored long on its own answer. President Kennedy rejected the State Department's first draft; in lengthy sessions with his ranking experts-Military Adviser Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Berlin Task Force Chief Dean Acheson-he mulled over several more drafts, penciled in much of the language of the final version himself...
Reviewing Crises. For advice on Berlin, John Kennedy was relying primarily upon Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman. Working out of his Washington law office, Acheson has carefully reviewed every report on past Berlin crises, examined every possible way the Soviets or their East German satellites could put pressure on the city. Last week, before the National Security Council, he made his still-secret report. Acheson is convinced that a surrender in Berlin means the surrender of Europe, believes that Khrushchev really does doubt the U.S. will use its nuclear deterrent. Thus, the U.S. must...