Henry Kissinger under President Nixon and John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower were modern titans.

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Mr Logevall leaves unresolved the question of whether John Foster Dulles, the secretary of state under President Dwight D.

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And his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, is not a dominant figure in the tradition of John Foster Dulles or Henry Kissinger.

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She was spotted by talent bookers and soon performed her rendition of "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" on television.

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John Foster Dulles and Henry Kissinger come to mind as secretaries of state who adeptly waged political warfare as an instrument on the world stage.

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Since then, even for such prominent statesmen as Charles Evans Hughes, George Marshall, John Foster Dulles, Henry Kissinger, and Colin Powell, the State Department has been a capstone, not a stepping stone.

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