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Dean Acheson

Geburtstag: 11. April 1893
Todesdatum: 12. Oktober 1971

Dean Gooderham Acheson war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und von 1949 bis 1953 Außenminister der Vereinigten Staaten.

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„Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.“

— Dean Acheson

„No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.“

— Dean Acheson

„My memory... is of a department without direction, composed of a lot of busy people working hard and usefully but as a whole not functioning as a foreign office. It did not chart a course to be furthered by the success of our arms, or to aid or guide our arms. Rather it seems to have been adrift carried hither and yon by the currents of war or pushed about by collisions with more purposeful craft.“

— Dean Acheson

„I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.“

— Dean Acheson

„Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.“

— Dean Acheson

„I am willing to join in your statement on the ground that I feel about the future of the United States whenever the President starts out on his travels the way the Marshal of the Supreme Court does when he opens a session of that Court. You will recall that he ends up his liturgy by saying "God save the United States for the Court is now sitting.“

— Dean Acheson
Grapes from Thorns (1972), page 67.

„Among the roles the Budget Bureau (now OMB) was that of constant critic and improver of administration in the federal executive branch. In my day this work had fallen to the products of graduate schools in civil administration. Their ideas... seemed to me theoretical nonsense.“

— Dean Acheson

„On the France's Indochina involvement: "They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves... France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose."“

— Dean Acheson

„No change (Marshall replacing former SecDef. Louis Johnson, who, soon after he resigned, was diagnosed with a fatal "brain malady") could have been more welcome to me. It brought only one embarrassment. The General (Marshall) insisted, overruling every protest of mine, in meticulously observing the protocol involved in my being the senior Cabinet officer. Never would he go through a door before me, or walk anywhere but on my left; he would go around an automobile to enter it after me and sit on the left; in meetings he would insist on my speaking before him. To be treated so by a revered and beloved former chief was a harrowing experience. But the result in government was, I think, unique in the history of the Republic. For the first time and perhaps, though I am not sure, the last, the Secretaries of State and Defense, with their top advisors, met with the Chiefs of Staff in their map room and discussed common problems together. At one of these meetings General Bradley and I made a treaty, thereafter scrupulously observed. The phrases 'from a military point of view' and 'from a political point of view' were excluded from our talks. No such dichotomy existed. Each of us had our tactical and strategic problems, but they were interconnected, not separate.“

— Dean Acheson

„Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere...“

— Dean Acheson

„The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.“

— Dean Acheson

„Only immediate assertion of leadership by the United States could prevent war in the next decade... The President and the Secretary of State must shock the country into a realization of its peril...“

— Dean Acheson

„The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.“

— Dean Acheson

„The conclusion was... unpalatable to believers in American omnipotence, to whom every goal unattained is explicable only by incompetence or treason.“

— Dean Acheson

„General Marshall was "impatient with a type of nonsense particularly prevalent in the State Department known as 'kicking the problem around.' All of us who have work with General Marshall have reported a recurring outburst of his: 'Don't fight the problem, gentlemen, solve it!' With him the time to be devoted to analysis of a problem, to balancing 'on the one hand' against 'on the other hand,' was definitely limited. The discussion he wanted was about plans of action"“

— Dean Acheson

„Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.“

— Dean Acheson
Reported in Alistair Cooke, Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004), page 378.

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Zitate Dean Acheson

„Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.“

„No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.“

„I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.“

„Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.“

„Among the roles the Budget Bureau (now OMB) was that of constant critic and improver of administration in the federal executive branch. In my day this work had fallen to the products of graduate schools in civil administration. Their ideas... seemed to me theoretical nonsense.“

„The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.“

„Only immediate assertion of leadership by the United States could prevent war in the next decade... The President and the Secretary of State must shock the country into a realization of its peril...“

„The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.“

„The conclusion was... unpalatable to believers in American omnipotence, to whom every goal unattained is explicable only by incompetence or treason.“

„Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.“

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