“The measure of success,” said John Foster Dulles, “is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”

Dulles is not just the name of an airport. Dulles was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1955.

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