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in 1961 when he was offered an ambassadorship. When asked why he decided to come out of retirement to become an ambassador, Baldwin said "because any
Foreign Service officer who wouldn't should have his head examined." After declining the ambassadorship to
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Baldwin, Charles F. (1979). A Dog's Life In the Foreign Service.
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