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Even your more informed dove is unlikely to remember that the debate over policy toward the Philippines around 1900 sounded very much like the contemporary argument over Viet Nam. Or that Dean Acheson himself once acknowledged that back during the Truman Administration, Washington's approach to Indochina was a "muddled hodgepodge...
...union, later as chief minister and then, after Britain granted associate statehood in 1967, as Premier. Bird, now 63, turned Antigua into a jet-age Cannes of the Caribbean, complete with 33 hotels drawing 65,000 tourists annually, a casino, an oil refinery and such illustrious sojourners as Dean Acheson, Andre Kostelanetz and Aristotle Onassis. His reward was to hear 70,000 Antiguans sing happy calypsos praising "Papa Bird...
...bureaucracy, which made the department hopelessly unwieldy as a presidential tool. Even if the bureaucracy were streamlined and creative thinkers were to flower, State would still need a Secretary respected by the White House and the department. Perhaps the last Secretary of State to provide such leadership was Dean Acheson−a man with the rare combination of a strong personality and articulate views who nonetheless knew how to use his staff profitably. John Foster Dulles was a strong figure in the Eisenhower Administration−despite, not because of the ponderous decision-making machinery at State. Dulles, the report said...
...emerged in 1945 as the world's strongest power, both economically and militarily. It used its economic strength magnificently to help rebuild Western Europe, and idealistically hoped to forge another superpower out of a unification of much of that continent. Soon the State Department's Dean Acheson was pushing the decision to aid Greece and Turkey against Communist subversion as part of the Truman Doctrine. U.S. failure to combat Communism there, he proclaimed, could "open three continents to Soviet penetration?like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran...
...Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-à-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most...