Word: acheson
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...said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush sought to define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern Europe combined with Mao?s triumph and war in Korea had a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps the attack on Manhattan will...
...only after Marshall's journey to Moscow in January 1947, where a private meeting with Joseph Stalin increased Marshall's anxiety about Europe's future, that he contemplated including foreign policy reforms in his Commencement address. When he proposed the idea to Dean Acheson, the Under Secretary of State, Acheson advised against it "on the ground that commencement speeches were a ritual to be endured without hearing...
...word pundit brings to mind an image of a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed know-it-all who is fond of quoting Dean Acheson, then you will be delighted--and relieved--by the freshness of the reporters and opinion makers you will meet on Take 5, a new talk show on CNN that will include a rotating cast of four TIME journalists. "We wanted a show that had the vitality and perspective of newer reporters," says Lucy Spiegel, the show's executive producer. "A lot of people came to our attention who were not covering their sixth or seventh presidential election...
...General under Lyndon Johnson to Secretary of State under Bill Clinton. What makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...
...entrepreneurs will somehow seem to have talents that are merely peripheral. The qualities that the elite respects will be a kind of aggressive and even ruthless energy and imagination. Superpromising young people will set themselves on a course to become David Geffen, not Dean Acheson...