David C. Acheson Index

A-1 Oral History of David C. Acheson INDEX Acheson, Camilla, 21–22 Acheson, David, 20–21 Acheson, David C. – Personal birth, 1, 2 brother-in-law, 23, 43–44 childhood, 7 children, 12, 15, 46–48, 94 father, 3, 6, 10, 11, 13, 50, 56 Brandeis law clerk, 1 at Covington & Burling, 2, 8, 59 at Groton, 4–5 and gout, 85–86 at Harvard Law, 52–53 Secretary of State, 12 and Truman, 12 at Yale, 44–45 Yale Corporation member, 6, 14, 52 father-in-law, 44–45, 53 Groton School, 3, 5–6, 13, 67 gout, 85 Harvard Law School, 39, 68 costs, 53–54 courses, 55 decision to attend, 52–53 faculty, 50, 51 friendships at, 49–50 interview, 49 marriage, 37, 45 mother, 2, 9, 21 in Navy active duty mix-up, 19–21 anti-submarine training, 23–24 commission, 15, 23 destroyer escort assignment, 24–27, 37 gunnery officer, 19 relief orders, 37–38 Reservist, 39 A-2 in Southwest Pacific theater, 27–37 at Potomac School, 2 at St. Albans School, 2–3 sisters, 21, 41–44 summer house, 9–12 tennis, 5, 17 wife, 5, 12, 21, 44, 54, 85 health of, 123, 127 as writer, 45–46 at Yale University, 6, 13–15, 23 Davenport College, 17, 19 friends, 17–19 Groton classmates, 15–17 Naval ROTC, 13, 19–20 Acheson, David C. – Professional Atlantic Council board member and president, 121–23, 127 and Bazelon, 78–80 Committee on the Present Danger member, 120–21, 123 Communications Satellite Corp. Senior VP and General Counsel, 97–100, 109–12 international trip, 101–109 at Covington & Burling, 59–63, 69, 89 Cellophane case, 60–63 Democratic Party Central Committee of DC member, 67 Drinker Biddle & Reath partner, 119–20, 124 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue partner, 49, 112, 118–19 antitrust lawyer for bauxite cartel, 114–16 COMSAT case, 116–18 Kennedy campaigner, 63–67 Rogers Commission member and report editor, 124–26 Special Assistant of the Treasury for Enforcement, 89–90, 96, 100 Bureau of Narcotics transfer, 90, 92–95 Secret Service overhaul, 90, 91–92 Warren Commission Report, 90, 91 at U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 56–59, 68, 69 U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 67, 86 cases argued, 77–78 case docket issues, 80–82 confirmation hearings, 70–72 Criminal Division cases, 72–76 on death penalty, 73–74 and Duncan, 87–89 on insanity defense, 73, 76–77 political boss indictments, 80 A-3 staff, 72, 74, 77, 78 Supreme Court case, 77, 83–85 on unadvised confessions, 74–76 Acheson, David C., Jr., 15, 46–48 Acheson, Dean, 3, 6, 10, 11, 13, 50, 56 Brandeis law clerk, 1 at Covington & Burling, 2, 8, 59 at Groton, 4–5 and gout, 85–86 at Harvard Law, 52–53 Secretary of State, 12 and Truman, 12 at Yale, 44–45 Yale Corporation member, 6, 14, 52 Acheson, Eleanor D., 46, 94 Acheson, Pat, 5, 12, 21, 44, 54, 85 health, 123, 127 as writer, 45–46 Acheson, Peter, 48 Alcan, 114, 116 Alcoa, 113, 114, 116 Algom Uranium Mines, 59 aluminum industry, 113 American Law Institute (ALI), 76 America’s Judicial Heritage, 46 Amsterdam, Tony, 78 Armstrong, Neil, 124, 125 Atlantic Council, 121–23, 127 Bahrain, 103 Baker, Ralph, 51 Baker, Wilder, 19–20 Barney, Charles D., 44–45 Battle of Samar, 34–35 Battle of Surigao Strait, 33 Battle of the Coral Sea, 27 bauxite nationalism, 113–16 Bazelon, David, 73, 77, 78–80 Belin family, 7–8 Black, Hugo, 84 Black Widow Club, 36 Bliss, Mildred, 7 A-4 Bliss, Robert Woods, 7 Brandeis, Louis, 1, 2 Braun, Wernher von, 99 Brown, Dudley, 23, 43 Brown, Jane Acheson, 21, 41–43 Bundy, Mary, 21, 42, 43–44 Bundy, William P., 43–44 Bureau of Narcotics, 90, 92–94 Burger, Warren, 77–78 Burling, Edward B., 1–2 Bush, George H. W., 17 Bussche, Axel von dem, 21–22 Calhoun, John C., 7 Califano, Joseph, 93–94 Carney, Otis, 18–19 Carroll, Robert, 70–72 Carter, James E., 120 cellophane, 60–61 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 90–91 Charyk, Joseph, 111 on COMSAT international trip, 101, 103, 104, 107, 109 and Intelsat IV, 116, 117 Challenger Space Shuttle accident, 123–24 investigation, 124–26 Chiang Kai-shek, 105, 106 Churchill, Winston, 103 Clement, Stuart, 17 cobras, 103, 108–109 Committee on the Present Danger, 120–21, 123 Communications Act of 1962, 98 Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), 98–101, 112, 116 monopoly, 109–11 Connally, John, 91 Cooke, Jay, 44, 45 Coolbaugh, Walter W., 26 Covert, Gene, 125 Covington & Burling, 8–9, 59–60, 89 Cox, Archibald, 76, 77, 83, 85 Customs Bureau, 90, 92–93 Cutler, Lloyd, 89 A-5 Davis, Arthur Vining, 116 Democrats, 66–67 DeSapio, Carmine, 66–67 destroyer escorts, 24, 28–29, 30–32, 33, 34, 37 District of Columbia, 6–7 city council, 128–29 Democratic Central Committee, 67 Georgetown, 7–8, 69 mayors, 128, 129 racial segregation, 127 three-man commission, 70, 88, 127 Dodd, E. Merrick, 51 Dodd, Mead & Co., 45, 46 Drinker Biddle & Reath, 119 Dulles, Annen, 85–86 Dumbarton Oaks, 7 Duncan, Charles T., 72, 87–89 duPont, Alfred I., 116 DuPont Company, 8, 60–62 Durham rule, 73, 76 Dwight, Timothy, 14 Eastland, James, 79 Edgerton, Henry, 73, 77 Edwards, Jonathan, 14 Eighth Air Force, 55 Fahy, Charles, 73, 77 Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 98, 111 Fenty, Adrian, 128 Feynman, Richard, 126 Fletcher, William, 126 Ford Aerospace, 117–18 Fowler, Henry H., 89–90, 93, 96–97, 120 Frankfurter, Felix, 50, 53, 72, 84 Franzen, Ulrich, 46–47 Gaffney, George, 92 Gagnon, Jacques, 116 General Motors, 60 Geneva, Switzerland, 102–103 Gesell, Gerhard A., 60–61, 62, 67 Giordano, Henry, 92–93, 94 A-6 Glover, Charles, 18 Goldman Sachs, 96 Goodpaster, Andrew, 121–23 Graham, Kay, 95 Graham, William, 123, 124 Great Depression, 8–9 Griswold, Erwin W., 49, 54–55 Griswold, Whitney, 14 Groton School, 3–5 conformity standards of, 5–6 Halsey, William F., 19, 33, 34–35, 40 Hand, Learned, 116 Hanes, John W. 44–45 Harkness, Edward, 15 Harriman, Averell, 4–5 Harvard Law School, 52–53 faculty, 50, 51 Harvard University, 7, 15 Helms, Richard, 90–91 HIJMS Yamato, 35 Hill, Sam T., 10, 11 Hill family, 10–11 Hitler, Adolph, 22 plot against, 21–23 Hirshhorn, Joseph, 59 Holtzoff, Alexander, 73 Hoover, Herbert, 7 Hotz, Robert, 125 Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), 60 inflation, 57–58 insanity defense, 73, 76–77 Intelsat. See International Telecommunications Satellite Organization International Radio Frequency Spectrum, 110 International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT), 98 Intelsat IV, 116–18 Iwo Jima, 35 Japanese, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 36–37, 108 Johnson, Lyndon B., 65, 89, 90, 93, 94, 96, 128 Johnston, Joseph F., 119 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, 49, 112, 118–19 A-7 Jordan, Robert E., 90 Justice Department, U.S., 60, 61–62, 71, 94–95 Antitrust Division, 115 Bureau of Narcotics addition, 93–94 Kaiser Aluminum, 113, 114, 116 kamikazes, 31–32, 33 Katzenbach, Nicholas, 82, 87–88, 94 Kennedy, John F., 18, 70 assassination report, 90, 91 campaign in New York, 63–64, 66 and Catholicism, 64, 65 and Martin Luther King, 64–65 Kennedy, Robert, 64, 79–80, 90 Kincaid, Thomas C., 30, 34, 35, 40 King, Martin Luther, 64–65 Kirk, Allan G., 39 Kurita, Takeo, 34–35 Landis, James M., 54 Lapham, Anthony, 90 Leach, W. Barton, 55 Leahy, Paul C., 62 Lehman, Herbert H., 66 Leyte Gulf, 30–31, 34, 35 Battle of. See Battle of Samar Lilienthal, David, 56 Lingayen Gulf, 35 Love At First Flight, 18 MacArthur, Douglas, 27–28, 30, 35 Manstein, Erich von, 21, 22 Marrakesh, 103 McCarthy, Joseph, 64 McConnell, Joseph, 112 McGowan, Carl, 77 McGuire, Matthew, 80–81, 82 McNamara, Robert, 96 Mendenhall, Thomas C., 14 Morocco, 101–102 Moulton, Horace, 97 Mumbai, India, 104 Mutiny on the Bounty, 15–16 A-8 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 99, 125, 126 New York Democratic factions, 66–67 and Kennedy, 63–64, 65–67 Port Authority, 70–71 Nimitz, Chester W., 27, 33, 40 Nixon, Richard M., 65, 102 nuclear arms control, 120–21, 123 O’Brian, John Lord, 8 Oldendorf, Jesse B., 33 Our Colonial Heritage, 45 Our Federal Government and How It Works, 46 Peabody, Endicott, 3–4, 67 Peabody, Endicott (“Chub”), II, 67 Peabody, George, 3 Pogue, Welch, 118 Potts, Ramsay Douglas, 55 Prendergast, Michael H., 66–67 Prettyman, E. Barrett, 73 Reagan, Ronald, 124, 125 Reiger, Siegfried, 99, 100–101, 111 Reno, Janet, 94–96 Rezneck, Daniel A., 78 Ride, Sally, 124, 125 Ridgeway, Rozanne, 121–22 Rogers, William P., 124–26 Rogers Commission Report, 124–26 Rommel, Erwin, 22–23 Roosevelt, Franklin, 7 Roosevelt, Theodore, 8 Rose, Horace Chapman (“Chappie”), 118 Rowley, James, 91 Rublee, George, 8 Rundstedt, Gerd von, 22 Sachs, Albert, 51 Salt II Nuclear Arms Agreement, 120–21, 123 San Bernardino Strait, 33–34, 35 Sandy Spring, Maryland, 9, 10 Sangamon Attack Teacher, 23–24 A-9 satellites, communications, 97–101, 104, 106, 108–109 aviation, 110–11 domestic, 109–10, 111 maritime, 110, 111 Secret Service, 90–92 Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), 98 Sengier, Edgar, 57–59 Seventh Fleet, 27, 30, 33, 34 Seymour, Charles, 14 Smith, Bob, 62 Smith Barney & Co., 45 Soviet Union, 57, 120–21 Spalding, Charles F., 17–19 Sprague, Clifton A. F., 33 State Department, U.S., 98 Stauffenberg, Claus von, 22 Stevenson, Adlai, 65 Stone, George, 15–16 submarines, 29–30, 35 Sundlun, Bruce, 97 Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 72 Supreme Court, U.S., 63, 77, 83–85 Suriago Strait, 33 Taiwan, 105–107 Task Force 34, 33, 40 Task Force 77, 30–31 Thailand, 108–109 Third Fleet, 19, 31, 36 Titus, Harold, 75–76 Tobriner, Walter, 70, 88–89 Treasury Department, U.S., 89, 90 Tree, Marietta, 66, 67 Truman, Harry, 12, 79 Tuttle, Emerson, 17 Ulithi Atoll, 36, 37 Union Minière, 57 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 56–59 U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia Appeals Division, 72, 75, 76 Criminal Division, 72, 75 Municipal Court Division, 72 A-10 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 73–74, 75, 76, 77, 83 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 72, 81–82 USS Chenango, 31 USS Coolbaugh DE 217, 26–27 USS Indianapolis, 29 USS J. Douglas Blackwood, 32 USS Santee, 31–33 USS Suwanee, 31 Volpe, Joseph, 56, 57–58 Warren, Earl, 84, 92 Warren Commission Report, 90, 91–92 Washington, D.C. See District of Columbia Washington, Walter, 128 Weisheit, J. Elmer (“Mo”), 54–55 White, Byron, 71–72, 84 Wollenberg, Roger, 112–13 World War II, 19 Eighth Air Force, 55 kamikaze attacks, 31–32, 33 Seventh Fleet, 27, 30, 33, 34 Southwest Pacific theater, 27–28, 29–37 Third Fleet, 19, 31, 36 See also specific battles, commanders, and vessels Yale Corporation, 6, 14 Yale Law School, 50 Yale University, 13–15, 44–45