A Firm Sense of Resolve

John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national security official, is something of a Forrest Gump figure in the sordid annals of postwar American foreign policy. Having entered the Foreign Service in 1960, he joined the US delegation at the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 as an assistant to Henry Kissinger—where he apparently clashed with his boss over the latter’s insufficient commitment to continuing the Vietnam War.