few countries that has that system but ours goes back to our first ambassador was ben franklin second thomas jefferson and then john adams. we have had political ambassadors for a long, long time. i like the system. if it were just political appointees it would be problem hat tick because there's a lot of just diplomacy stuff that i didn't know and i had a wonderful number two who is now the deputy chief of mission in mission in finland. a career foreign service officer. we worked as a team. where she knew how to work the bureaucracy at the state department, for example, which reports needed to be done when, i had had two generations of leadership experience, managing people and projecting goals and organizing cultures. i long thought the most important job of a leader is to get the culture right where people are working together and supporting each other. team work worked really well. i saw it that way and much in the rest of europe. it tends to be -- it's not 1-1 but it tends to be the more expensive and more important countries that end up with the political ambassadors who, a, can afford it. congr

few countries that has that system but ours goes back to our first ambassador was ben franklin second thomas jefferson and then john adams. we have had political ambassadors for a long, long time. i like the system. if it were just political appointees it would be problem hat tick because there's a lft just diplomacy stuff that i didn't know and i had a wonderful number two who is now the deputy chief of mission in had finland, susan elbow who was a career who was a career foreign service officer, and we worked as a team. where she knew how to work the bureaucracy at the state department, for example, which reports needed to be done when, i had two generations worth of leadership experience managing people and projecting goals and organizing cultures, which i've long thought the most important job of leader is to get the culture right where people are working together and supporting each other, so the team worked together pretty well. i saw it that way for pretty much the rest of europe. the more expensive and more important countries end up with the political ambassadors who, a, can afford it. and b,