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To: nuconvert

What a concept, huh? Reminds me of the George Schulz anecdote:


https://adst.org/oral-history/fascinating-figures/george-shultz-country-united-states/
[MILLER: George Shultz, for many of us, was like God. He was a really good guy… He’d have all new ambassadors in to his office, one at a time, as they went out for a five, maybe 10 minute chat.

And he’d say, “OK, Mr. Ambassador or Madame Ambassador, you’ve passed all the tests. You’ve been confirmed by the Senate and you’ve passed your security investigation. You’ve done all the things to get the position of ambassador, but you have to pass my test. I have one more for you.” And he’d take them over in the Secretary’s office to where there was this massive globe, and he’d say, “I’m going to spin the globe and I want you to put your hand on your country.”

Shultz would tell this story, and he said, “Every single one of them failed. But I let them go anyway.” Because whenever he spun the globe and he’d say, “I want you to put your hand on your country,” they’d always put their hand on the country that they were going out to. His point was your country is the United States.]


4 posted on 08/07/2019 7:29:26 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

That’s a good one! Thanks


5 posted on 08/07/2019 7:31:11 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Zhang Fei

I love that story. Love John Bolton, but he is a quarrelsome little bugger.


12 posted on 08/07/2019 7:53:25 AM PDT by Segovia
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