The little boy clutching the cross was Dean Acheson, who came to believe in a number of things: in having a good time, in the importance of Scroll & Key at Yale, in Supreme Court Justice Louis ...

It was the first big show of the 81st Congress and Texas’ florid old Tom Connally promptly fumbled his lines. He had moved his Foreign Relations Committee into the marble-pillared Senate caucus room.

Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order by Robert J. McMahon. Published by Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia. 272 pages, 2009. Potomac Books is publishing a new series of biographies ...

THE word Mr. Acheson used for Korea was “unique.” If the U.N. fails to see this, if it fails to dig deep and give Korea the full treatment, it will be passing up the finest chance it has had. The ...

Acknolwedgments -- Definitions of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1. Introduction : "The shiniest fish that ever came out of the sea" -- pt. 1 -- 2. Rare meat : adding reach to power -- 3. Patterns of ...

Soon after arriving at the State Department earlier this year, I hung a portrait of Dean Acheson in my office. Over half a century ago, as America sought to create the world anew in the aftermath of ...

Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that Acheson’s 20th successor, Antony Blinken, had sent a cable subtitled ...

On Jan. 17, 1950, a midlevel staffer at the State Department, in charge of its policy-planning team, wrote to Secretary of State Dean Acheson proposing a study on the implications of moving toward an ...

So how did the Korean War start? Was it that America was rattling its sabers? There is a view among historians that the fatal error was the opposite. It occurred when ...

Years of preparation -- From World War to Cold War : climbing the rungs of power -- Constructing an Atlantic community -- Into the cauldron -- The crucible of war ...