Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Dean Acheson - Conservapedia
Conservapedia, the place where I once read a back page discussion on how to soften wording on McCarthy's alcoholism, is pretty low key on the whole Acheson thing. Were McCarthy's attacks that big of a thing or just random talk radio type stuff blaming anyone and everyone for somehow not keeping China from going Communist.
As mentioned, Acheson was incompetent and lousy as a Secretary of State. I don't think anyone, including Joe McCarthy, actually thought the man was a Communist or actively subversive. His main connection with the pursuance of Communists, Soviet operatives, and security risks was his open support of Alger Hiss when Hiss was accused of spying and convicted of perjury, which went quite a ways toward proving Acheson was incompetent.