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

Travel with Rick Steves

CHAPTER

Are You Afraid to Tell the Truth?

i think for us to do our job the way it needs to be done, we have to get out of the castle. And this is where we get in trouble if people are afraid to say what they know to be true and only say what their bosses want to hear. We can learn from history in that regard. I mean, how did mc carthyism in the red scare impact our ability to navigate the choppy waters around the viatnam war smartly? Well, i think that is probably the most tragic and and in many ways, the saddest story of the modern history of American diplomacy.

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