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In Their Own Voices

Cool Ben

Government

Frequency: 1 episode/35d. Total Eps: 75

The Official Podcast Channel of ADST — Capturing, preserving, and sharing the experiences of America‘s diplomats.

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30/09/2024
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29/09/2024
#69

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Dealing with a Leftist Dipsomaniac: The United States and Ecuador’s Carlos Arosemena

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 • Duration 13:14

In the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy had two bugbears: the Soviet Union and Cuba. The United States wished to prevent another Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s rise to power, through policies like the Alliance for Progress. As the United States continued to worry about potential leftist revolutions across the region, Ecuador became a setting for this battle over hearts and minds.

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Tex Harris Keep Your Hands Above Your Head

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 • Duration 05:03

Distinguished American diplomat Tex Harris recounts attempted intimidation by Argentine security forces in 1977, at the height of that country’s “Dirty War.” From the series "Tales of American Diplomacy" by the Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training. Because diplomacy matters now more than ever.

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Relationships - Women in the Foreign Service

Monday, April 27, 2020 • Duration 24:36

Women have been a fundamental part of the Foreign Service in both visible and invisible ways since its founding, making countless contributions. These are the stories of trailblazing women in the Foreign Service and how they paved the way for the present.

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Brunei

Monday, April 27, 2020 • Duration 16:53

Brunei, one of the smallest, yet richest states in the world, is located on the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian archipelago. Fewer than 500,000 people live within its 22,00 square miles. A new constitution in 1959 declared Brunei a self-governing state, while entrusting conduct of its foreign affairs to the United Kingdom. Until 1994, when it asserted full independence. Learn more about this modern-day sultanate.

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Nixon in China- A Question of Interpretation

Thursday, July 11, 2019 • Duration 09:36

Nixon's "jowls were wobbling in anger" when a young foreign service officer, during Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China, saved the President from embarrassment by refusing to interpret. Here is the story.

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South Africa, DeKlerk and the End of Apartheid

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 • Duration 07:16

In a one-on-one meeting in 1989, future South African President F.W. DeKlerk told Hank Cohen, America's senior diplomat for Africa, that if elected he would free Mandela, un-ban the ANC, and end apartheid. DeKlerk delivered. Here is that story.

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Peace Baby: the First Drive from Egypt to Israel in 1980

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 • Duration 06:53

In 1980, James Larocco was a young American diplomat in Egypt--and a new father. His newborn daughter needed urgent medical treatment in Israel. The American ambassador told Larocco “Egyptian President Anwar Sadat called Israel’s Menachim Begin and they agreed that you will be the first family to drive from Cairo to Jerusalem.” Here is that story.

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William Harrop on Using Soccer Balls to Build Goodwill in Guinea

Thursday, May 23, 2019 • Duration 04:28

As American ambassador to poor, socialist Guinea from 1975-77, William Harrop used a $25,000 discretionary fund and lots of soccer balls to promote goodwill. From the series "Tales of American Diplomacy" by the Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training. Because diplomacy matters now more than ever.

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Tish Butler on the 1983 Beirut US Embassy Bombing

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 • Duration 14:35

The bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 18, 1983, killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. Newly-arrived USAID employee Letitia "Tish" Butler survived the bombing. This is her story.

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Blowing the Whistle on American Corruption in Russia

Thursday, July 12, 2018 • Duration 08:47

USAID unearthed a major corruption scandal in Russia in the late 1990s involving Harvard University’s Institute for International Development. Dr. Janet Ballantyne, USAID’s mission director, blew the whistle. In her oral history, Ballantyne discusses the consternation this caused with U.S. Embassy leadership, and the repercussions of her reporting on relationships with key Russian officials.

Throughout the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States and Russia worked together to implement privatization and other economic reforms. USAID funded the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to help design and implement major economic reforms in the country, including privatization and market reforms. In 1997, however, HIID contractors were found to be using their access to insider information for their own benefit. Harvard later settled with the U.S. government in 2005 and paid what is believed to be the largest settlement ever by a university in a case of this type.

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