mired Woman,” but being a great secretary of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024980 --- PAGE BREAK --- 24 state requires more than energy, brains, and celebrity. Dean Acheson helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got the job, engine

e in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." - Samuel Johnson "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." - Dean Acheson "Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer." - Morihei Ueshiba "Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's

s always requires judgment and strategy (or "cost- benefit" analysis, as the economists say). In the early Cold War, for example, Secretary of State Dean Acheson resolutely rejected pressure from the U.S. left to negotiate with Moscow until Washington was able to do so from "a position of strength." Acheson

mmission [sic] on Palestine was the correct solution, and, I think, eventually we are going to get it worked out just that way." On May 18, he told Dean Acheson, who was between jobs at the State Department, that in 1946 "we had the problem solved, but the emotional Jews of the United States and the equally