The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2008 - The Billion Dollar Election Part 2 Ambassadors

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Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy businessmen. Is this really the way for the US to run its foreign policy?

Published on Friday, 8th August 2008.

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