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671 Three-Hour Louvre; Friend in Foreign Service; Summer of '73

Travel with Rick Steves

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We've Been Talking About the Value of Diplomacy in Our Generation

The risk of politiciation is very high. It's why we have to have a professional career foreign service, professional career civil service. We can't have every administration firing everybody. That's what happened in the nineteenth century. I would just hope and pray for continuity in our service from from the calibre of the people i met at your dinner table"

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