Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gleaming Weapon. Dulles was still very much alive and within telephone reach of both the State Department and the White House, but the sense of shock grew, nonetheless, out of the conviction that the free world could ill afford even the temporary loss of a unique cold-war leadership. A boy who had grown up dreaming of being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson...
...Senate cannot provide the leadership, it is perfectly clear where it must come from, although much less clear whether it will. The President has already stated that he cannot devote any more of his limited time and energy to problems of foreign policy. Until he or one of his subordinates does devote the energy necessary to develop and implement a workable strategy for foreign relations it remains dubious whether anyone else can provide the West with firm leadership...
...Christian A. Herter '15, Acting Secretary of State, and C. Douglas Dillon, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, might take over many of the administrative tasks while Dulles remains in the hospital. The Dean opposed suggestions that a new Secretary of State be appointed, saying, "A complete change in leadership would lead to a less effective organization in the present crisis...
...policy could be very chaotic," he said. He added that if Dulles is well enough, he might continue on in an advisory capacity to the President. In this case either Dillon or Herter might take over Dulles' job. This would ressen the problems involved in the change of leadership, he thought, since "both Herter and Dillon are very intimate with the workings of the State Department...
...East Germany and the other manager of a factory on the Volga, stepped to the rostrum to grovel. Pervukhin tried to hold back a bit: "Though I was unable to discern the anti-party group's plans, when the group openly raised the question of changing the leadership, I did not agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev himself had to interfere and set things right. Four days later, Pravda...