Word: achesons
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...justice, can also be dangerous. Harry Truman stood by his fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean Acheson told reporters in January 1950, citing as his precedent Matthew...
...shown again and again that it has the resilience to recover from failures, though it often takes a while and the process is democratically muddled. "Americans," said Dean Acheson, "do at the end of the day what they don't like to do at noon." Present European attitudes and policies are not designed to help bring about an American resurgence. On the contrary: they can only help thrust America back upon itself and thus ultimately hurt Europe. If, through arrogance or fear or misjudgment, Europe's leaders were to count America out too soon, they would...
...next priority has to be the closest possible relationship with the President. You cannot conduct foreign policy as a contest between the President and the Secretary of State; they must be partners, with the Secretary, of course, as the junior member. The relationships that have worked best-say, Acheson and Truman, Dulles and Eisenhower and, I must say, mine and Ford's-developed when the President and the Secretary understood each other's thinking perfectly, and the question of principle between them never would arise...
...final quarter gave Rainaldi a chance to pick up a third goal, as he joined Forbush and Meagher to share high scoring honors. In that same frame, two more names were added to the list of Crimson scorers this season. Ray Sphire and Jim Acheson each contributed a first...
...does Buckley, who never offers bait without a barb. Oakes expresses "dismay over the mind-boggling incapacity of Frenchmen to govern themselves." Acheson recalls John Stuart Mill's observation that while Conservatives are not generally stupid, "stupid people are generally Conservative." The Soviet intelligence chief pays the author a compliment by quoting from a National Review article on an assassination attempt that "had all the earmarks of a CIA operation...