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Dean Acheson
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American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)
Dean Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer who served as Secretary of State under President Harry Truman from 1949 to 1953, playing a central role in shaping Cold War foreign policy. He is remembered as an influential architect of key postwar policies including the Marshall Plan and NATO, which fundamentally shaped America's international relations during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1971
- Works
- 61
Top works
- The credit to Britain and world trade
- An open letter to Dean Acheson
- Diplomacia y poder
- The shield of faith
- Some social factors in legal change
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1893-04-11
- Active to
- 1971-10-12
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 12
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- MapReduce
· 2008 · cited 11,390x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- The Determination of Enzyme Dissociation Constants
· 1934 · cited 10,204x
- Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
· 2021 · cited 9,949x
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Quotes
- “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.”
- “Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”
- “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.”
- “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.”
- “A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”
- “Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.”
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Key facts
- President
- Harry S. Truman
- Preceded by
- George C. Marshall
- Succeeded by
- John Foster Dulles
- Born
- Dean Gooderham Acheson , ( 1893-04-11 ) April 11, 1893, Middletown, Connecticut , U.S.
- Died
- October 12, 1971 (1971-10-12) (aged 78), Sandy Spring, Maryland , U.S.
- Resting place
- Oak Hill Cemetery , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Alice Stanley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. May 15, 1917</span>"}]]}'>1917 )
- Children
- 3, including David
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), Harvard University ( LLB )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- National Guard
- Battles wars
- World War I , Operation Valuable
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Encyclopedic overview
Dean Gooderham Acheson (/ˈætʃɪsən/ ATCH-iss-ən; April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American politician and lawyer. As the 51st U.S. secretary of state, he set the foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration from 1949 to 1953. He was also Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947 during early years of the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.
After 1949, Acheson came under political attack from Republicans led by Senator Joseph McCarthy over Truman's policy toward the People's Republic of China. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), a strategic advisory group. As a private citizen in 1968, he counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam.
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