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• Dealing with a Leftist Dipsomaniac: The United States and Ecuador’s Carlos Arosemena

  June 16, 2020 · 13 min

  In the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy had two bugbears: the Soviet Union and Cuba. The United States wished to prevent another Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s rise to power, through policies like the Alliance for Progress. As the United…

• Tex Harris Keep Your Hands Above Your Head

  May 13, 2020 · 5 min

  Distinguished American diplomat Tex Harris recounts attempted intimidation by Argentine security forces in 1977, at the height of that country’s “Dirty War.” From the series "Tales of American Diplomacy" by the Association for Diplomatic…

• Relationships - Women in the Foreign Service

  April 27, 2020 · 25 min

  Women have been a fundamental part of the Foreign Service in both visible and invisible ways since its founding, making countless contributions.  These are the stories of trailblazing women in the Foreign Service and how they paved the way…

• Brunei

  April 27, 2020 · 17 min

  Brunei, one of the smallest, yet richest states in the world, is located on the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian archipelago.  Fewer than 500,000 people  live within its 22,00 square miles.  A new constitution in 1959 declared Brunei a…

• Nixon in China- A Question of Interpretation

  July 11, 2019 · 10 min

  Nixon's "jowls were wobbling in anger" when a young foreign service officer, during Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China, saved the President from embarrassment by refusing to interpret. Here is the story.

• South Africa, DeKlerk and the End of Apartheid

  June 25, 2019 · 7 min

  In a one-on-one meeting in 1989, future South African President F.W. DeKlerk told Hank Cohen, America's senior diplomat for Africa, that if elected he would free Mandela, un-ban the ANC, and end apartheid.  DeKlerk delivered.  Here is that…

• Peace Baby: the First Drive from Egypt to Israel in 1980

  June 5, 2019 · 7 min

  In 1980, James Larocco was a young American diplomat in Egypt--and a new father. His newborn daughter needed urgent medical treatment in Israel. The American ambassador told Larocco “Egyptian President Anwar Sadat called Israel’s Menachim…

• William Harrop on Using Soccer Balls to Build Goodwill in Guinea

  May 23, 2019 · 4 min

  As American ambassador to poor, socialist Guinea from 1975-77, William Harrop used a $25,000 discretionary fund and lots of soccer balls to promote goodwill. From the series "Tales of American Diplomacy" by the Association for Diplomatic…