Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11th 1893; October 12th 1971) was a lawyer and American statesman . Secretary of State during the administration Truman of 1949 to 1953, it plays a central role in the definition of the American foreign politics during the Cold war. It acts decisively in favor of an intervention in June 1950 in the Guerre of Korea.

Dean Acheson vigorously defended the employees of the State Department shown for the period of the Maccarthisme. Joseph McCarthy 'S anti-Communist investigations, incurring the wrath off McCarthy himself. Instrumental Acheson was forming the U.S. policy toward Vietnam, persuading Truman to dispatch aid and advisers to French forces in Indochina, though He would later counsel President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), has strategic advisory group. --->