Dean Acheson
Noun
Meaning
United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971)
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Examples
[Recalling George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State James Baker:]...the best secretary of state since Dean Acheson. I say that because he and Bush 41 had an incredibly tempestuous period in history, and they navigated through it with great success.
And I think it’s Dean Acheson who says to Truman a few years later, there is no concept of security that is local anymore for the United States.
Sagan's interest in UFO reports prompted him on August 3, 1952, to write a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson to ask how the United States would respond if flying saucers turned out to be extraterrestrial.
Truman later told his Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again."