Dean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer.
29 Facts About Dean Acheson
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Dean Acheson was Truman's main foreign policy advisor from 1945 to 1947, especially regarding the Cold War.
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Dean Acheson was in private law practice from July 1947 to December 1948.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11,1893.
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Dean Acheson's father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an English-born Canadian who became a Church of England priest after graduating from Wycliffe College.
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Dean Acheson moved to the US, eventually becoming Bishop of Connecticut.
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Dean Acheson's mother, Eleanor Gertrude, was a Canadian-born descendant of William Gooderham, Sr.
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Dean Acheson attended Groton School and Yale College, where he joined Scroll and Key Society, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
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On May 15,1917, while serving in the National Guard, Dean Acheson married Alice Caroline Stanley.
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Dean Acheson loved painting and politics and served as a stabilizing influence throughout their enduring marriage; they had three children: David Campion Acheson, Jane Acheson Brown and Mary Eleanor Acheson Bundy.
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Dean Acheson clerked for him for two terms from 1919 to 1921.
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When Secretary William H Woodin fell ill, Acheson suddenly found himself acting secretary despite his ignorance of finance.
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Dean Acheson did not intend the flow of oil to Japan to cease.
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In 1944, Dean Acheson attended the Bretton Woods Conference as the head delegate from the State Department.
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Dean Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.
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On June 30,1947, Dean Acheson received the Medal for Merit from President Truman.
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Dean Acheson retired on January 20,1953, the last day of the Truman administration, and served on the Yale board of trustees along with Senator Robert A Taft, one of his sharpest critics.
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Dean Acheson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.
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Dean Acheson was ignored by the Eisenhower administration but headed up Democratic policy groups in the late 1950s.
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Dean Acheson became an unofficial advisor to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
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President Johnson asked Dean Acheson to reassess American military policy, and he concluded that military victory was impossible.
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Dean Acheson advised Johnson to pull out as quickly as possible, to avoid a deepening division inside the Democratic Party.
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Dean Acheson distrusted Hubert Humphrey, and supported Richard Nixon for president in 1968.
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Dean Acheson provided advice to the Nixon administration through Henry Kissinger, focusing on NATO and on African affairs.
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Dean Acheson broke with Nixon in 1970 with the incursion into Cambodia.
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Dean Acheson's body was found slumped over his desk in his study.
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Dean Acheson was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington, DC.
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Dean Acheson had a son, David C Acheson, and two daughters, Jane Acheson Brown and Mary Acheson Bundy, wife of William Bundy.
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Dean Acheson was portrayed by John Dehner in the 1974 television docudrama, The Missiles of October.