“Kissinger wanted to fire half the diplomatic corps. I dealt with one in the mid 70’s in Bangkok. A real asshole.”
Keep in mind that most come out of the “Kennedy School of Government” at Harvard and other similar ‘upper crust’ backgrounds - so yeah, you got a taste of what the rest of the world has to deal with, when it comes to diplomacy with the US.
Hopefully those days end too.
The Kennedy School is not upper crust. It is 99% liberal or further left.