Word: acheson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion was a state dinner for West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. In his honor the White House invited a spirited, varied list of 140 guests, ranging from Dean Acheson to Gene Autry, George Meany to Thomas Dewey. By candlelight in the evergreen-decked state dining room, they feasted on roast duckling, Bibb lettuce salad, lobster imperial and "Yule log" dessert (chocolate cake coated with mocha butter)-the last culinary triumph of White House Chef René Verdon, a Kennedy find who heatedly gave notice a week before the party that he was leaving...
MORNING AND NOON by Dean Acheson. 288 pages. Houghfon Mifflin...
...this guarded memoir, dapper, frosty old Lawyer Dean Acheson recalls the great ones he has known and paints in muted, modest tones his career until the time he joined the State Department in 1941. He recalls a comfortably idyllic New England boyhood (his English-born father was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut), his years as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, his practice with a Washington law firm. It is all consistently respectable and, alas, consistently unrevealing -except for one rewarding chapter on Under Secretary of the Treasury Acheson's squabble with F.D.R. The President's freewheeling...
...Explorers Club, got into his white Lincoln convertible and exuberantly led a tour of the land around the L.B.J. Ranch. Every day he walked between two and four miles. When he was not on the move, the President lounged by the ranch swimming pool, thumbing through extracurricular books (Dean Acheson's memoirs, a biography of Sam Houston) or working on official business...
...Among its founding members: ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, ex-World Bank President Eugene Black, Educator James Bryant Conant, ex-Treasury Secretary (under Kennedy and Johnson) C. Douglas Dillon, ex-Defense Secretary (under Eisenhower) Thomas S. Gates, Princeton President Robert F. Goheen, M.I.T. Chairman James R. Killian Jr., ex-Ambassadors John J. McCloy and Robert D. Murphy, Banker David Rockefeller...