Nephew of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, he served as legal counsel to the American delegation to the Versailles Conference and later served as chief negotiator of the peace treaty with Japan.  
He always carried with him a copy of Lenin's Problems of Leninism, and viewed it as a blueprint for world domination, similar to Mein Kampf.  Nephew of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, he served as legal counsel to the American delegation to the Versailles Conference and later served as chief negotiator of the peace treaty with Japan.  As secretary of state, he concluded the Austrian State Treaty despite Soviet opposition, and later declared, "If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost," thus coining the term "brinkmanship."  FTP, name this secretary of state, who served under Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.
He always carried with him a copy of Lenin's Problems of Leninism, and viewed it as a blueprint for world domination, similar to Mein Kampf.  
John Foster Dulles