When Acheson was first joined State as Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, he writes the following in a section entitled My Search for a Function...My official duties were summed up in the Department of State Bulletin by misleading platitudes...Both (Secretary) Hull and the President...knew me and, surely, had not asked me into the Department to perform the largely nonexistent duties defined in the Bulletin.
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