Abstract
The American Experience has prove wrong de Tocqueville's contention that lawyers and missionaries make poor diplomats. Our diplomatic history is rich in successful and prominent lawyer-diplomats, demonstrating that even such a perceptive and sensitive observer of the American scene as the French historian could be mistaken.
Recommended Citation
William Jr. Bodde,
Lawyers and Diplomats: Some Personal Observations,
5
Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus.
40
(1983).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njilb/vol5/iss1/8
