Quote of the Day

This site's *cryin'* for a new post! In an effort to sideline my homework for a fun moment of diversion, I'm happy to oblige.

"You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost."
- John Foster Dulles, 1888-1959

Note: From "to the brink" was first derived the word "brinksmanship."

Served in the United States Army 1917-1918; attaining rank of major

Advisor to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919

Member of the Reparations commission and Supreme Economic Council in 1919

Delegate to the Berlin Debt Conferences in 1933

Delegate to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945, and to the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1950

Interim Senator from New York in 1949

Consultant to the Secretary of State in 1950

Special representative of the President, with rank of ambassador, to negotiate the Japanese peace treaty 1950-1951

Secretary of State, 1953-1959

Grandson and nephew of 2 previous Secretaries of State (!)

Older brother of Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA)

How's your resume lookin'?