The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    The history quiz

    By Barth on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 3:32pm |
    David Kurtz' post, rightly questions Governor Palin's assertion that Vice Presidential candidates are not expected to have met any foreign leaders.  (I suspect the current president might have had thin experience in this area, but he should hardly be a role model.)

    I do not want to be accused of holding a brief for Spiro Agnew, but amazingly enough, his selection was actually designed as a gesture, quite thin, toward the Rockefeller/Scranton/ulp, Romney wing of the the Republican Party, whose chief foreign policy expert was Henry Kissinger.  I would not be surprised then, if, in between taking bribes to build highways in Maryland, Governor Agnew got a little foreign policy education and met a foreign leader or two.