Istanbul, TURKEY:  Karen Hughes, US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs blows kisses to Turkish students
Istanbul, TURKEY: Karen Hughes, US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs blows kisses to Turkish students (Getty Images)

Scuttle Diplomacy

June 01, 2007

Bush confidante Karen Hughes has been directing a State Department effort to sell American policies to a skeptical world. But media affairs director Price Floyd thought it was a misguided effort, and so after 17 years at State, he quit. Floyd explains why diplomacy is not a matter of P.R. spin.


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