At least Pompeo is standing firm. I discovered a quote from FDR days about his squishy State Dept: “There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time. Elmer Davis
Right now I’m reading Hornfishcer’s book ‘Neptune’s Inferno’ about the Navy’s role in the battle of Guadalcanal. Early in the book he refers to FDRs using a personal envoy to Britain to bypass Ambassador Kennedy. Obviously an impeachable offense had Congress known...