[Thank You Rush]

Very interesting. Thank you. Sure don’t recall that but can’t argue with facts...

“politically appointed” and”career” must explain why I thought they were always “appointed” because of favoritism and not from the troops at the state department.

I’m getting too old to keep all this nonsense in my head so I guess it just decided to leave.

[tinyowl]

"I’m getting too old to keep all this nonsense in my head ..."

hah - It is total nonsense :-) ... good yakkin' and happy weekend.