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Serving as ambassador to china. i didn't realize he was actually offered the best ambassadorships to london or paris. >> after water gate he had been head of the national republican committee. gerald ford wanted him out of town. bush wanted to get out of town. ford offered him the jobs to being ambassador to paris and london. george bush really surprised him by saying i want to go to china. he had two reasons. he thought china would be interesting. the second was the adambassador had to fund -- china is much -- >> he marvels at how inexpensive it is. the best part of the story is that he did n...
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