Ambassador Role Quotes
“The word “monitoring” is a polite diplomatic word for “spying on”. She made this statement in July of 2014 when the Germans discovered that the United States was spying on their government and ejected key Americans from the country. Albright was explaining that this is extremely common and “normal” between allies. See {640830} for more on this subject.
The $250,000 sum would come to over $1 million in 2001 dollars. Nixon was not the first President who would only appoint an Ambassador if they made a large campaign donation, but he was the most explicit and overt.