http://www.darrenkrape.com/journal/public-diplomacy-cold-war-to-current-era-part-i/ - web design and life stuff Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:46:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.darrenkrape.com/journal/public-diplomacy-cold-war-to-current-era-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-668 George Clack Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:45:35 +0000 http://www.darrenkrape.com/?p=208#comment-668 Ah, those were the days, a simpler time when public diplomacy - a term nobody had heard of in 1959 - seemed to revolve around which system could produce flashier cars, homes, and kitchens, and put them on display. But you do well to point out that in the recollections of the guides about their conversations with Russians, we see the thread of something more subtle and lasting. I am a little skeptical that the guides had no talking points at all, though they would not have been called talking points. Ah, those were the days, a simpler time when public diplomacy – a term nobody had heard of in 1959 – seemed to revolve around which system could produce flashier cars, homes, and kitchens, and put them on display. But you do well to point out that in the recollections of the guides about their conversations with Russians, we see the thread of something more subtle and lasting. I am a little skeptical that the guides had no talking points at all, though they would not have been called talking points.

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