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Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

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Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

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Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

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There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

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I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

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For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

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I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.

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There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

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One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

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Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: June 16th, 1917

Died: July 17th, 2001

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