Sublime

The technical team also began using the whiteboard in no-fault discussions with other delegations for calculations of the interlocking pieces of a deal. The whiteboard’s importance to the negotiations among our nuclear experts became clear when a member of another team mistakenly used a regular, non-erasable marker. The incident nearly paralyzed th

we’ll uncover a century-spanning conflict featuring a Nobel laureate, an Antarctic expedition, and the only international policy ratified by every country on Earth.

However, the ambassadors quietly explained to me that their job wasn’t really to find the best policy investments for the world. They were there to highlight their government’s particular policy focus, which was often ideas that played well at home, regardless of how efficient (or not) they were at solving global problems.

Eisenhower supported Bohlen with the full prestige of the presidency. “The reason I sent his name to the Senate, and the reason it stays there, is because I believe he is the best qualified man for the job,”