She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects! John Brunner
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The words of a man who had been a politician, a writer, and a diplomat, and who had served as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Italy, and France.

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