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The Importance of Being Off the Record
I didn't know it was on the record, by the way. That's another thing you need to learn. You're always on the record. What I did say is I said the slang in Russian, Ziyadki, which is bride. Oh, they must have loved that. They were extremely upset at me and that was a mistake. Yikes. And of course that got printed everywhere. Yeah. How do you earn respect when you come to an office where a lot of people might just think, oh, this is some wonky guy? Because usually, ambassadorships go to career foreign service officers. If I'm not mistaken, right? So you might have shown up