Deans Quotes

Of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 1893-1971:

The Secretary of State told the President he was resigning to save the administration possible embarrassment over his daughter's planned marriage to a black man:

The United States has the highest ratio of educational administrators and staff to actual teachers of any nation on Earth. Until the beginning of the 20th Century, the term “principal” meant “principal teacher”. One of the teachers of a school was chosen as the principle teacher and he or she would teach as well as supervise the other teachers. My the 21st Century, most principals had assistant principals, counselors, curriculum, security personnel and few of them ever teach students. Kantor’s suggestion was to have educational administrators also teach for some part of their time to increase the teacher student ratio and give administrators current actual classroom experience.

His reference was to the Democratic Presidential Nomination Campaign of 2004 where Dean’s early campaigning changed the entire direction of the Democratic Party, but then began to do poorly in the primaries as a result of a series of mistakes.

Referring to Secretary of State Dean Acheson:

At the time, the Red Scare was prevalent and many Americans were terrified of communists. It was a very effective political tactic to imply that an opponent was a communist or communist sympathizer. For another harsh smear of Stevenson, see {619523}.