Good generation. He entered the Foreign Service immediately on graduation from yale. His education was essentially in the humanities, not International Relations theory. He felt the most viable course he took in college was in economic geography, which is not hot anymore come either in colleges or high schools. He was required to yield major to take a course in dealing with the english civil service. No one pays attention in which english constitutional history. And when he entered the Foreign Service, whose first assignment was in hong kong in 1960. Hong kong in 1960 is hard to remember this was the place that existed in almost total isolation from china. There were millions of refugees in hong kong, but no american could go to china. And there is no trade. It was a listening post, but not a very informative one. But the experience that he had their used to be typical of the experience that Foreign Service officers had. He was assigned to interview these applicants. He learned that th
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Washington think tanks have these days have and it produces i would think less certitude and more humanity than we see on the part of those who think that they are entitled to make Foreign Policy in washington. I was not close to John Negroponte during that. Math. We grew up in the same Apartment Building and we were very close childhood friends until about the age of 10. We went off in completely different directions. I did not see him for 50 years. I then saw him when my brother saw his mothers obituary in the newspaper. She was in her 80s and she said well he was always a nice boy and i have found at my age i wouldnt have any friends if i hadnt tried to renew old acquaintances. They have a tendency to die off when you get into your 70s and 80s. I looked him up. He was outside of mcgrawhill and one thing led to another and there came a time when we were having lunch when he said something that suggested to me that he might not be averse to have them someone write about his career alt
Large land mass in the southern pacific. But it was australia incognito, this land nobody was sure nobody had found it. And then in the 18th century, nations became got into the curiosity business, and the french and the english sponsored two great explorers, one is captain cook. Actually his first name is james, but we think his first name is captain. And they then systemly explore lands of tahiti and when he gets back he publishes his travels and creates this image of a heatty of being this a heatty tahiti as lucious and free love and writing in this roman romantic era. And cook was much sterner than that. He has four great explorations of the pacific, where he goes all the way from the northwest, where he is very interested in seeing if there is a Northwest Passage in the arctic region, and then he does circumnavigate new zealand and explores the eastern side, but he also discovers the Hawaiian Islands and a series of islands where the polynesian people live. He charts, a great mapm
Scam and may end up getting caught in a major spy scandal. The president going as far to give the story a name. Spygate. Kaitlan collins is at the white house following all of this. Kaitlan, whats behind this change, if you will . Now declaratively saying that there was a spy on his team . Reporter well, there has been quite a change from what the president has been saying over the last few days and to what he has been tweeting today. He went from saying this could be an allegation saying it was possible that his campaign was spied on by the fbi to today stating it as a fact each thoveh multiple officials have told cnn there was no spy planted into the Trump Campaign. Instead, was there an fbi intelligence source, a confidential intelligence source starting their investigation into russian interference in the election. The president essentially stating it as fact. His Deputy Press Secretary was on television a few moments later after he tweeted that and he would even go as to far as to