Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Achesonwas an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 April 1893
CityMiddletown, CT
CountryUnited States of America
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.