Little success and a Benghazi disaster mean trouble.
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Bob Schadler
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From a public diplomacy perspective, the Clinton legacy after she left the State Department may be even worse. Whatever the merits and demerits domestically with regard to the Clinton Foundation and honoraria of $500K to $750K per speech, a great deal of the world now thinks the United States is exceptional primarily in that it practices "crony capitalism" on a scale unparalleled and previously unimaginable. The perception alone resulted in tens of millions being "donated" to the Clinton Foundation and other tens of millions being paid for talks. And the perception of those now finding out about it will be hard to counteract.
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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From a public diplomacy perspective, the Clinton legacy after she left the State Department may be even worse. Whatever the merits and demerits domestically with regard to the Clinton Foundation and honoraria of $500K to $750K per speech, a great deal of the world now thinks the United States is exceptional primarily in that it practices "crony capitalism" on a scale unparalleled and previously unimaginable. The perception alone resulted in tens of millions being "donated" to the Clinton Foundation and other tens of millions being paid for talks. And the perception of those now finding out about it will be hard to counteract.
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