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Dean Acheson (16)

Birth:	11th April, 1893
Death:	12th October, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Statesman

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Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War.

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• Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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  Tags in Diplomacy, Negotiation, Assume

• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

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  Tags in Nations, World, Cooperation

• The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem.

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  Tags in Ego, Attention, Man

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

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  Tags in Paradise, Luxury

• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

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  Tags in Public

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

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  Tags in Change

• If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

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  Tags in Change

• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

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  Tags in Presidents

• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

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  Topics in Mistake

• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Statesman, Requirement

• If we learIt is worse than immoral, it’s a mistake.

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• I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

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  Tags in Endurance

• Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

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  Tags in Empire

• Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

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  Tags in Government, Controversial

• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

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  Topics in Management

  Tags in Reader