This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

—James Reston

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About James Reston

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James "Scotty" Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995) was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times.

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