Things That Make You Go Hume
June 20, 2008 at 8:13 pm
John McCain takes his lumps for being a really old guy.
But seniority can have benefits. Particularly when it gives you license for making references to yellowing figures from history — like that treasure Dean Acheson.
From a McCain speech today to the Economic Club of Toronto (supplied by RealClearPolitics):
Long before NAFTA, America received one of its most valuable exports from Canada in the form of a great statesman, Dean Acheson. He was descended from a great Canadian distilling family and a man who knew Canada well. As secretary of state, Acheson liked to drop by the home of his great friend Hume Wrong, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, for consultation and advice over a quiet drink. As I said, Acheson came from a distilling family.
No telling what material McCain has lined up concerning John Foster Dulles. Or maybe McGeorge Bundy.
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