“Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.”

—  Dean Acheson , book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives

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