DC Metrocentric

Most people only think of an airport when they hear Dulles, but the airport was of course named for a man, and that man was John Foster Dulles the Secretary of State under Eisenhower. Dulles spent most of his years in DC living in NW DC on Dumbarton Ave. It’s a very nice looking house, and with a two car garage, its much nicer than where our current Secretary of State lives.

Dulles wasn’t the only famous for DC person to live in the house… after the jump a White House connection and a little more history on Dulles…

Former home of:
John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State under Eisenhower)
Bert Lance (Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Carter)
Harold Ickes (White House Deputy Chief of Staff under Clinton)

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.