To the uninitiated (or to those who simply watch too many B-movies), an ambassador’s life seems to be nothing but…
William Joseph Burns, known as Bill to his colleagues, stepped down as Deputy Secretary of State in October 2014 after…
Will Rogers once observed that “when you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking…
It was one of the darkest periods in Latin American history. From 1976-1983, a brutal military junta ruled Argentina in…
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. was the first African-American Foreign Service Officer to rise to the rank of ambassador without a…
For Russians, it was yet another dramatic confrontation which played out in the streets of Moscow, one which marked the…
Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the long-awaited reunification between East and West Germany began. A…
Scotland can trace its links to the United Kingdom to more than 400 years ago, when James VI, King of…
Charles “Chip” Bohlen (August 30, 1904 – January 1, 1974) served in the Foreign Service from 1929 to 1969 and…