Frank Reuter, Trials and Triumphs

Questions for Frank Reuter, Trials and Triumphs:


1) "Congress was the real lynchpin of American foreign policy in the early years of the Republic. Any President, including Washington, was helpless to direct that policy on his own. The continuing consent of Congress was essential to the conduct, much less the success, of any element of the United States' foreign relations."


2) "Clearly, the most vital actor in the arena of American diplomacy was the Indian. More than France, Spain, or even Britain, relations with the native Americans were critical to the success of early United States diplomacy."


3) "There has been much written about George Washington, but he was of little consequence within his administration in directing American foreign policy. His advisors eclipsed him. Washington may have been an able and solemn chief-of-state, but he had no foreign policy vision or strategy of his own. That policy's successes were successes, but they were Washington's advisors' successes, not his."