Tag: Joining the FS and First Post
Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer, III
from ADST
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Bremer-L.-Paul-1.pdf
Diplomacy as a Profession
by Chas Freeman Remarks to the American Foreign Service Association Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., USFS (Ret.) The Foreign Service Club, Washington, DC, 11 January 1995 Ladies and Gentlemen: There’s a door prize being given out today. Finally, after … Read more
How I Became Interested in a Career in Diplomacy
It Was Willy Nilly
by Bobbie Bergesen Riedel
We’ll Always Have Paris
. by Henry E. Mattox Humphrey Bogart intoned the inimitable words in the title, of course, in the 1941 film, “Casablanca.” They capture somehow the feeling I hold for my first post, the Paris embassy of the ‘fifties. Long, long … Read more
Stories of Joining the Foreign Service
stories from John Brown; Carleton Coon; Milt Iossi; Brenda B.Scjoonover; Richard Schoonover; and Daniel Strasser
Beginning a Diplomatic Career: Embassy Panama, 1959-1961
Beginning a Diplomatic Career: Embassy Panama, 1959-1961
by Peter Bridges