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| | Allan Gotlieb's The Washington Diaires |
 | | Gotlieb describes the job of an ambassador as "salesman, promoter, public-relations operator, huckster, animateur, impresario and lobbyist." By any objective measure, he excelled at all of these. |
 | | Gotlieb recounts everything from how the big deals were hatched - he played a key role in coaxing the Americans into an acid rain treaty, and lobbied hard for free trade - to the minutiae of handling Canadian politicians' visits to Washington, to the challenges of piercing the bureaucratic walls protecting Washington's senior decision-makers. |
 | | Gotlieb was sincerely conflicted about the man, at once admiring his charisma and belief in federalism, but being quite troubled by the wild contradictions in his politics and his arrogance. |
| www.daifallah.com /gotlieb.htm (631 words) |
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