Lieberman’s Revenge Jun 24, 2008
Dean Acheson once warned, no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies, he recently wrote. This is a lesson that today s Democratic Party leaders need to relearn. (The American Conservative)
Facts are a casualty of missile crisis Jun 10, 2008
During the October crisis, Sorenson writes, JFK dispatched former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to show the CIA's surveillance photos of the Cuban missiles to French premier Charles de Gaulle. I don't need to see pictures of the weapons of mass destruction, de Gaulle replied: "The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.". (Boston Globe)
Gov. Paterson: NYS to Recognize Gay Marriage May 30, 2008
Dean Acheson of Albany says, I think it's a step in the right direction for human rights. . (FOX23 News, NY)
Will same-sex marriage survive Nov.? May 24, 2008
" (May 22) is little more than a warm bowl of porridge. He dismisses reference to Neville Chamberlain because his vacuous agreement with Hitler took place 70 years ago. That does not change the naivety which characterizes both Chamberlain's and Obama's desire to meet with an enemy without preconditions or clout. Chamberlain went to Munich with nothing more than an umbrella. Obama will go to Tehran with nothing more than a smiley face. As for Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy - both negotiated,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Lieberman: McCains Stark Contrast to Obama May 22, 2008
A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. This is a lesson that today's Democratic Party leaders need to relearn. (Newsmax)
Long history of open and closed avenues May 21, 2008
Three years later, as China was about to fall to the Communists, Dean Acheson said we would recognize the Mao government. Senator Joe McCarthy and others intervened, and we did not recognize China for 30 years. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Washington's battle over Israel's birth May 12, 2008
But opposition really came from an even more formidable group: The "wise men" who were simultaneously creating the great Truman foreign policy of the late 1940s -- among them Marshall, James V. Forrestal, George F. Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. To overrule State would mean Truman taking on Marshall, whom he regarded as "the greatest living American," a daunting task for a very unpopular president. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
New look at the first Bush is a kinder, gentler view May 5, 2008
The man was made for the mid-20th century, when the WASP "Wise Men" like Dean Acheson guided foreign policy. He had candle power in the second half, but his career was, at once, full and thin. (Boston Globe)
Afghanistan moves to center stage Apr 19, 2008
However, in a hard-hitting speech on Monday at Maxwell-Gunter air force base in Montgomery, Alabama, which was devoted entirely to the US strategy in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice precisely invoked the great Cold War icons - George Marshall, Harry S Truman, George Frost Kennan and Dean Acheson. She sent a stunning message to Moscow that NATO's victory in Afghanistan is "not only essential, it is attainable". (Asia Times Online)
Who’s the White Barack Obama? Apr 2, 2008
Past members of the Harvard Law Review include Susan Estrich, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss and, more recently, former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer. Now, that s what I call presidential timber. (Human Events Online)
National Press Club Releases '100 Key Dates in NPC History' Mar 31, 2008
February 5, 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announces his retirement at the NPC. January 12, 1950 - Secretary of State Dean Acheson outlines an American "defense perimeter" in the Far East that excludes Korea. 1953 - Ted Koop is the first broadcast journalist elected president of NPC and leads a contract to air condition the main dining room, lounge and ballroom. (PR Newswire)
McCain's foreign policy Mar 29, 2008
McCain's core purpose in the speech was to revive the foreign policy tradition that has jumped parties but that has been associated with people like Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, Dean Acheson, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. In this tradition, a strong America is the key to world peace, but America's role is as a leading player in an international system. (International Herald Tribune)
Lakeland gets best of Tomahawk Feb 21, 2008
Online news and information for the Rhinelander region. SEARCH 14-day search. (Forest Republican, WI)
Huck's Hour of Power Feb 12, 2008
If there is a single tripwire for war laid down in the time of Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles that John McCain thinks we should pull up, or a single alliance he has urged us to review, this writer has not heard of it. With the president at 30 percent and the party about to lose seats in both houses of Congress, conservatives should not be closing ranks but demanding to know why. (Townhall.com)
Daydream Believers Feb 3, 2008
When Condoleezza Rice became secretary of state, she hung a portrait of Dean Acheson in her office. As she explained in a Washington Post op-ed piece, Acheson worked in that office at the start of the Cold War, "as America sought to create the world anew." His portrait was to serve as a reminder that we too "live in an extraordinary time," that "the terrain of international politics is shifting beneath our feet," and we must "transform volatile status quos that no longer serve our interests.". (Slate)
Clinton's Iraq vote was cynical, Obama's brave Feb 2, 2008
The formidable Dean Acheson, an architect of the U.S. strategy of Communist containment, pushed for an invasion of Cuba. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Kennedy: "Hit 'em without any warning whatsoever," according to Robert Smith Thompson's "The Missiles of October.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Obama, Clinton: Neither gets it right on immigration Jan 16, 2008
" that heralded the Spanish-American War; the murky circumstances surrounding the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania that turned public opinion against the Kaiser; the Pearl Harbor debacle; an offhand remark in January 1950 by Secretary of State Dean Acheson that South Korea was outside our "defense perimeter"; the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; and an American diplomat's apparent signal of unconcern to Saddam Hussein immediately before he invaded Kuwait. At the battlefield level, America's intelligence... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
* The lies that history bequeathes us Dec 28, 2007
Before the Korean War, US president Harry Truman and secretary of state Dean Acheson also said that Taiwan should be returned to China based on the Cairo Declaration under the "one China" policy, and in so doing used Taiwan as a bargaining chip. Truman did not abandon this policy until the Korean War started in June 1950. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Street: Obama Speaks Dec 12, 2007
Is it really essential for him to applaud the wonderful (he thinks) post-[World] War [Two] leadership of president Truman, Dean Acheson, George Marshall and George Kennan for craft[ing. a.. (Zmag.org)
For US foreign policy, it's all power, no influence Dec 10, 2007
His boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, saw containment almost entirely in military terms, and when Kennan demurred, Acheson demoted him. Acting from Foggy Bottom, Acheson did far more to advance the Pentagon, built on flats called "Hell's Bottom," than did its own chief, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. (Boston Globe)
Historians Embrace Schlesinger Papers Dec 10, 2007
Between former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and historian C. Vann Woodward, it includes Bacall, Truman Capote, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Marlene Dietrich, John Kenneth Galbraith, Allen Ginsburg, Albert Gore Sr. and Jr., Lillian Hellman, Hubert Humphrey, Alfred Kazin, Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, George McGovern, Ralph Nader, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut. While only a sampling of the letters was available to examine, a fleeting look revealed how Schlesinger freely offered opinions and... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Column: David Halberstam, Torii Hunter and Tubby Smith Nov 30, 2007
President Harry Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator Joe McCarthy and other civilian leaders and politicians. He also details the military leaders. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
A great loss to the literary world Nov 27, 2007
I had hoped to become better acquainted with Dean Acheson by reading The Coldest War. I wanted to know how and why our Korean War vets slipped off the radar as though there were no conflicts between World War II and Vietnam. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Herman: The U.S. Aggression Process Nov 25, 2007
The "propriety of the Cuba quarantine is not a legal issue," former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson explained in reference to Kennedy's naval blockade of Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. "The power, position and prestige of the United States had been challenged by another state; and law simply does not deal with such questions of ultimate power. For Acheson, any U.S. action to counter alleged threats trumps international law, and law cannot be allowed to interfere with the... (Zmag.org)
McCarthyism: The Rosetta Stone of Liberal Lies Nov 20, 2007
Even if one c 00004000 oncedes to on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand whiners like Ronald Radosh that Truman's Secretary of State Dean Acheson didn't like communism, his record is what it was. And that record was to treat Soviet spies like members of the Hasty Pudding Club. (Human Events Online)
M. Stanton Evans Reveals the Truth About McCarthy Nov 19, 2007
What about Dean Acheson s role in all this ... Marshall asked Dean Acheson to stay on and run the internal workings of State for him. (Human Events Online)
Present at the creation Nov 7, 2007
Published: November 6, 2007. This is the question that's been floating around foreign policy circles over the past few months. (International Herald Tribune)
Ambassador John Bolton: An Interview Nov 5, 2007
Dean Acheson was one of the ones who put it best some years ago. You have to negotiate from positions of strength. (Human Events Online)
With friends like these ... Oct 27, 2007
Burk's knowledge of recent economic history gives special power to her account of the post-1945 settlements, in which the flourishing US cut less slack to its exhausted ally than expected (US undersecretary of state Dean Acheson saw the snub to Britain of America's Atomic Energy Act as a criminally broken promise, while Eisenhower called it "one of the most deplorable episodes in American history, of which he personally felt ashamed"). Only the cold war, and fear of Russia, forced the US into... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Lifting the curtain Oct 24, 2007
"Britain," as the former US secretary of state, Dean Acheson, cruelly pointed out in 1962, "has lost an empire and not yet found a role." And that search for national self-definition has prompted a raft of first-rate writing. It is the perennial topic of every Alan Bennett play from Forty Years On (set in a school called Albion House) to The History Boys. (Guardian Unlimited)
The distant fire Oct 1, 2007
Their failure of foresight was natural, given that American Secretary of State Dean Acheson had conspicuously omitted Korea from a list of countries the United States was prepared to defend. The second miscalculation was less defensible and even more fateful. (Boston Globe)
The Coldest Winter Sep 21, 2007
Gaffes and imperial ineptitude in Korea - International Herald Tribune. David Halberstam discovered his calling in Vietnam, watching men die for a strategic lie. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Retreat of the Antiwar Democrats Sep 11, 2007
Truman fired Gen. MacArthur, fought a no-win war in Korea and was savaged, along with Gen. Marshall and Dean Acheson, by Joe McCarthy. By 1952, Truman was at 23 percent and finished. (Townhall.com)
Jacobs: Bush & Vietnam Aug 24, 2007
Mr. Bush is now calling the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan part of an ideological struggle on the scale of Dean Acheson and the Dulles brothers war against Soviet communism in the post World War Two era. Besides the sheer hyperbole of this assertion, the fact is that this perception of the current wars is held by very few people on the planet including US residents. (Zmag.org)
The Dog Days Of D.C. Aug 17, 2007
That's right: Before Rice left town on vacation, she and the former Baltimore Orioles All-Star infielder, fresh from his induction into baseball's Hall of Fame, appeared before reporters and a handful of diplomats obviously they were also baseball fans in the State Department's Dean Acheson Auditorium. There, Ripken's accomplishments were duly noted by Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, who spoke of her efforts to reach out to younger people around the world and of... (CBS News)
Ripken appointed special sports envoy Aug 14, 2007
"This isn't a political statement for me, necessarily," Ripken said in the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the U.S. Department of State. "This is about kids ... and using baseball for good reasons. I know it is not probably going to be easy in some environments. Sport -- baseball in particular -- is very magical. It can go across cultural lines.". (MLB.com -- Baltimore Orioles)
Safty: Truman and Bush Aug 2, 2007
US Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson articulated the theory that came to be known as the domino theory. He told Congressmen and State Department officials that what was at stake was much more than the survival of the Greek and Turkish governments. (Zmag.org)
Kuznick: A-Bomb Jul 30, 2007
Truman threw a small dinner to which he invited Robert Lovett, Averell Harriman, Omar Bradley, and Dean Acheson. Margaret, the President's daughter, describes the scene. (Zmag.org)
Street: Running Dog Obama Jul 29, 2007
This refusal was a terrible example for the Third World, as far as leading Truman and Eisenhower planners like George Kennan and Dean Acheson both warmly praised in past Obama publications and speeches (see for example Obama 2006, pp. 284, 304) were concerned. (Zmag.org)
'The challenge of imperialism' Jul 16, 2007
Adlai Stevenson, the erstwhile Democratic candidate for president, criticized the speech, and Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, dismissed it as a juvenile's "impatient snapping of the fingers." Acheson felt that a French retreat from Algeria would lead to "chaos" -- not the last time that argument would be used. The speech was widely covered, and brought more mail to Kennedy's office than any Senate speech he ever gave. (Boston Globe)
McGovern: Not sure anti-war Dem can win... Jul 11, 2007
If Ronnie, JFK, Ike, LBJ, and Dean Acheson were alive today, I'd sure as hell listen to them too. Nick Danger. (The Drudge Report)
The Post-Korea Consensus Jun 26, 2007
Even Dean Acheson had his doubts about the wisdom of recognizing only the Nationalist regime on Taiwan as the 'real' China, and paid a tremendous political price for it. Like many defeated commanders, MacArthur's worst hour came when he tried to shift the blame to anyone and everyone else, claiming Washington liberals had stabbed him in the back. (Suite101.com)
How Gordon Brown will change Britain's foreign policy Jun 26, 2007
07 Great Britain's Labour prime minister, wrote Dean Acheson in 1950, evinced "all the passion of a woodchuck chewing a carrot." Gordon Brown, who will become prime minister tomorrow, is by reputation fully the equal of that predecessor, Clement Attlee, in dourness and inscrutability. E-mail. (New Republic)
Morris: Gates pt. 1 Jun 22, 2007
Their names made up a roll call of men who shaped postwar U.S. policy and much of the world in the second, American half of the twentieth century -- Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense and Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett, Ambassador Averill Harriman, Assistant Secretary of Defense and World Bank President John McCloy, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, State Department aide Paul Nitze, and a handful of others. With much inbreeding of schools, firms, and society, theirs... (Zmag.org)
Marshall D. Shulman, 91; Soviet scholar Jun 22, 2007
In 1949, he joined the Department of State, serving as an information officer for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York and then as special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson between 1950 and 1953. He was special advisor on Soviet affairs to Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance from 1977 to 1980. (Los Angeles Times)
Jacobs: Rice Names The System Jun 14, 2007
In a speech given to the Economic Club in New York on June 6, 2007, Rice did everything but utter the word as she summoned forth the ghosts of Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt and Cold War architect Dean Acheson and stated that the Bush foreign policy is not a break with previous administrations, but a continuation of what she called "100 years of American realism." Or, as she put it, "We believe that our principles are the greatest source of our power, and we are led into the world as much by our... (Zmag.org)
Street: Imperial Temptations May 29, 2007
Edwards is angry at George W. Bush and the neoconservatives for weakening Americas power by perverting the basic goodness of U.S. foreign policy once epitomized and advanced by Cold War leaders like the great Dean Acheson, President Harry Truman, General George Marshall, and George Kennan ... He applauds the wonderful (for him) post-[World War Two] leadership of president Truman, Dean Acheson, George Marshall and George Kennan for craft[ing] aneworder that... (Zmag.org)
Price: Canada & Occupation of Japan May 29, 2007
Contacted by US secretary of state Dean Acheson prior to Truman's announcement, Hume Wrong wired Pearson in Ottawa to let him know of Acheson's communication. 20] Wrong made little comment himself regarding MacArthur's firing but told Pearson that "Herbert Norman remarks that this is a good demonstration to the Japanese of the supremacy of the civil authority in a democracy."[21] MacArthur may have been down but he was not out. (Zmag.org)
On Americas Global Role May 24, 2007
On Americas Global Role / American diplomacy -- what you see is what you get. is pure fancy" and that "the American image. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Cromwell/ Edwards: 'Anti-Americanism' pt. 2 May 14, 2007
During the 1963 Cuban missile crisis, the respected liberal elder statesman Dean Acheson told the American Society of International Law that no "legal issue" arises when the US responds to a challenge to its "power, position, and prestige". (Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival, Routledge, 2003, p.14). (Zmag.org)
Teaching Recent History From Opposite Perspectives May 7, 2007
"Knowing the Enemy" by Mary Habeck "Understanding Terror Networks" by Marc Sageman "The Crisis of Islam" by Bernard Lewis "All the Laws but One" by William H. Rehnquist "Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime" by Eliot A. Cohen "Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism" by Daniel Byman "Present at the Creation" by Dean Acheson "Years of Renewal" by Henry A. Kissinger "Nuclear Terrorism" by Graham Allison. Bush speeches. (Washington Post)
How Rice is Learning to Play a Weaker US Hand Apr 24, 2007
Dressed in a light beige suit, Ms Rice received us in an upholstered reception room framed by a large portrait of Dean Acheson - perhaps her most illustrious predecessor. Now 52 and having served Mr Bush for more than six years, Ms Rice remains the most glamorous member of an ageing administration. (Ocnus.net)
Hillary Rodham Clinton's college classmates speak out... Apr 14, 2007
Eleanor Dean Acheson, the general counsel who was in the Clinton administration s Justice Department, said Mrs. Clinton was only now emerging from her husband s shadow. What people now perceive as Hillary s distance, the criticism that she s cold and calculating, and does nothing without a focus group, finds its root in that she has had to be, for 25 years, in the spotlight, and in the shadow of Bill, Ms. Acheson said. (The Drudge Report)
The 'X' dreams of Washington's wonks Apr 4, 2007
They include such certified "Wise Men" as Dean Acheson, Charles E Bohlen, W Averell Harriman, Robert A Lovett, John J McCloy and George F Kennan, who became the exemplars of the US foreign-policy establishment: pragmatic and non-dogmatic hardcore realists who set the standard for the realpolitik-type policies pursued by their successors: Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Shultz, James Baker. An "idealist" would swear that he wants (among many other things) to end world hunger and... (Asia Times Online)
Richard Bernstein's review of "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography" Mar 31, 2007
There are Henry R. Luce, Richard M. Nixon, Dean Acheson, Walter Lippmann, Harry S. Truman and various Communist operatives, F.B.I. agents and members of the New York intellectual establishment, all with a role in Mr. Tanenhaus's large tapestry. Of the Hiss case, Mr. Tanenhaus writes that what set it apart "was not its mystery but the passionate belief of so many that Hiss must be innocent no matter what the evidence.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
To Russia with Realism Mar 27, 2007
Surely the country that produced George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and Dwight Eisenhower must still be capable, somewhere in its being, of this kind of strategic wisdom. . (The American Conservative)
Street: Obama, King Reflections Mar 16, 2007
Not content to embrace U.S. imperialism in the present and future, Obamas Audacity applauds the wonderful (for him) post-[World War Two] leadership of president Truman, Dean Acheson, George Marshall and George Kennan for craft[ing]aneworder that married [Woodrow] Wilsonian idealism to hardheaded realism, an acceptance of American power with a humility regarding Americas ability to control events around the world (34). This is a remarkably deferential and... (Zmag.org)
Chaos Under Heaven Mar 8, 2007
The architect of American Cold War foreign policy, Dean Acheson, understood that the role of the United States in the world after 1945 was largely a result of Great Britain s decline as an imperial power (though he paid too little attention to its effects in Asia). After Acheson, American officials tended to define the American role in terms of the threat of Communism. (New Yorker)
Street: Stupid Times Feb 25, 2007
" The dominant neoliberal, anti-state ideology (Davis, p. 81) advanced by Friedman: Washington-sponsored neoliberalism (p. 141). A FOOTBALL TEAM IS NOT A CITY Sometimes you find things in the Times that are just astonishingly stupid. Last December, for example, the paper published an article equating the athletic revitalization of New Orleans Saints football quarterback Drew Brees and his football team with the supposed recovery of New Orleans the city from Hurricane... (Zmag.org)
The louse that roared Feb 19, 2007
To paraphrase Dean Acheson, Russia has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
Putin: the louse that roared Feb 16, 2007
To paraphrase Dean Acheson, Russia has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. The Black Hills Pioneer, Newspapers, South Dakota, SD 2007. (Black Hills Pioneer, SD)
Meltzer mastered labor law, prosecuted war criminals during his career Feb 3, 2007
From 1941 to 1943, Meltzer served in the State Department, serving as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and as Acting Chief of the Foreign Funds Control Division. Meltzer worked successfully to help persuade the State and Justice departments to abandon a restrictive interpretation of the Neutrality Act in order to permit delivery of Lend-Lease shipments to American allies, and he helped to draft the initial Lend-Lease agreements with allied nations. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
GEORGE H. LESSER: Worldviews turned upside down Jan 31, 2007
PARIS. -- In October 1962, as the Cuban missile crisis was coming to a boil, hurling everybody then alive to the edge of thermonuclear abyss, President Kennedy dispatched former Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Europe to tell our allies what was happening and what we were doing about it. In the Elysee Palace in Paris, Acheson offered to show the French president U-2 photographs of the Soviet missile sites. (Washington Times)
A NATO for the Middle EastWalter Isaacson asks: What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing about the global threat of terrorism? Something bold and creative Jan 28, 2007
What would George Marshall and Dean Acheson be doing now. At the top of their list, I suspect, would be forging a new version of NATO. They might call it MATO: the Mideast Antiterrorism Organization, a military, police, intelligence and security mutual-defense alliance between the West and our moderate allies in the Middle East. (Time.com)
Go With God: Jan 26, 2007
The Washington Post memorializes him, writing that "[H]e brought to daily commentary a touch of wit, a and a brave willingness to launch himself occasionally into flights of utter absurdity that produced some of his best moments." And the Baltimore Sun recalls that Dean Acheson once referred to Buchwald as "the in English since Pope and Swift." (NPR has of Buchwald on All Things Considered, as well as a final interview with him last June. . (Slate)
