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My favorite George Schultz anecdote was from the time he was Secretary of State. He kept an illuminated globe in his office at Foggy Bottom, and he would give each new U.S. Ambassador a test:

“They’d been through all kinds of exams and so on — confirmation — and I’d say to them, ‘Well, there’s just one more test you have to pass.’” They’d usually groan. “‘You have to walk over to that globe and demonstrate to me that you can identify your country.’ And, inevitably, they would point out the country to which they had been assigned.”

The correct answer, of course, was the United States — that was their country. And Shultz’s moral was, “Never forget what country you’re representing.”