Journalist talks with Henry
Kissinger.
– Tell
me, Mr. Kissinger, you are considered the inventor of the “shuttle diplomacy”.
Explain what it is.
– Oh,
it’s very simple, – says Kissinger – For example, you want to marry
Rockefeller’s daughter to a simple guy from a Siberian village.
– It’s
impossible! How would you do that?
– Very
simple. I’m going to a Siberian village, find a simple peasant there and ask:
“Do you want to marry an American lady?”
He
says: “Why? We’ve got great girls here!
And I
say: “Yes, but she is Rockefeller’s daughter.”
He goes: “Oh! This
changes everything.”
Then I go to
Switzerland to a bank board meeting. I ask them: “Do
you want a Siberian peasant to be your bank
President?”
And the bank people
say: “No way!”.
– But what if he is
Rockefeller’s son-in-law?
