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Podcast: People In The Know
Episode: Ambassador Kenneth Quinn - Foreign Service - Vietnam to Cambodia
Description: Kenneth Quinn did not seem destined for greatness as a young man. He was born in the Bronx (1942) but his family moved to the Midwest when he was ten years old. Intelligent, but with few resources, he worked and lived at home to gain a degree from Loras Collage in Dubuque, Iowa.
After college, he worked in a packing plant with the hope of becoming a lawyer. Without enough money to take the LSAT, he found he could stand for the U.S. Foreign Service Exam, for free, but with almost no chance of passing the test or...