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
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When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, the portraits of George Marshall, but especially Dean Acheson.
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.
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.
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!
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
Charm never made a rooster.
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.