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Book: Distant Friends: The Evolution of United States-Russian Relations, 1763-1867
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  1. Norman E. Saul _ Distant Friends: The Evolution

    One story that circulated about {U.S. Minister to Russia Charles S.} Todd concerned his conversation with a lady-in-waiting at an Imperial reception in the Winter Palace. In his bad French with a Kentucky accent, he mispronounced the word for year, so that an explanation of his travels came out: "I was an ass in Paris, part of an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and I am two asses here." To which the lady reportedly responded, "And you will be an ass wherever you go.
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