“a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."”
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
“I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.”
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