Monthly Archives: September 2018
In a corner of my office at home, there is a photocopy of a poster that correspondents traveling with Henry Kissinger had produced to honor his 50th birthday on May 27. 1973. It is a parody of a well-known Braniff Airways poster of the time, which featured a beautiful hostess waving and saying: “I’m Dorothy, Fly Me to Miami.” Our poster had Kissinger waving, saying “I am Henry, Fly Me to Damascus.” At the bottom of my copy, Kissinger wrote:…..
Mike Pompeo is listed as the 70th secretary of state. Dean Rusk was the 54th in the long list that goes back to Thomas Jefferson. And Rusk was the first Secretary that I covered. I was working at that time in the 1960s for the Washington Evening Star, then the leading afternoon newspaper in D.C. Rusk had been chosen by John F. Kennedy after having served as head of the Rockefeller Institute. I began covering the State Department full time…..